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diff --git a/docs/contributing/upstream-packages.rst b/docs/contributing/upstream-packages.rst deleted file mode 100644 index 8ae3150f..00000000 --- a/docs/contributing/upstream-packages.rst +++ /dev/null @@ -1,155 +0,0 @@ -.. _upstream_packages: - -Upstream packages -================= - -Many base system packages are pulled straight from Debian's main and contrib -repositories, but there are exceptions. - -vyos-netplug ------------- - -Due to issues in the upstream version that sometimes set interfaces down, a -modified version is used. - -The source is located at https://github.com/vyos/vyos-netplug - -In the future, we may switch to using systemd infrastructure instead. Building -it doesn't require a special procedure. - -keepalived ----------- - -Keepalived normally isn't updated to newer feature releases between Debian -versions, so we are building it from source. - -Debian does keep their package in git, but it's upstream tarball imported into -git without its original commit history. To be able to merge new tags in, we -keep a fork of the upstream repository with packaging files imported from -Debian at http://github.com/vyos/keepalived-upstream - -strongswan ----------- - -Our StrongSWAN build differs from the upstream: - -- strongswan-nm package build is disabled since we don't use NetworkManager -- Patches for DMVPN are merged in - -The source is at https://github.com/vyos/vyos-strongswan - -DMVPN patches are added by this commit: -https://github.com/vyos/vyos-strongswan/commit/1cf12b0f2f921bfc51affa3b81226 - -Our op mode scripts use the python-vici module, which is not included in -Debian's build, and isn't quite easy to integrate in that build. For this -reason we debianize that module by hand now, using this procedure: - -0. Install https://pypi.org/project/stdeb/ -1. `cd vyos-strongswan` -2. `./configure --enable-python-eggs` -3. `cd src/libcharon/plugins/vici/python` -4. `make` -5. `python3 setup.py --command-packages=stdeb.command bdist_deb` - -The package ends up in deb_dist dir. - -ppp ---- - -Properly renaming PPTP and L2TP interfaces to pptpX and l2tpX from generic and -non-informative pppX requires a patch that is neither in the upstream nor in -Debian. - -We keep a fork of Debian's repo at https://github.com/vyos/ppp-debian - -The patches for pre-up renaming are: - -* https://github.com/vyos/ppp-debian/commit/e728180026a051d2a96396276e7e4ae -* https://github.com/vyos/ppp-debian/commit/f29ba8d9ebb043335a096d70bcd07e9 - -Additionally, there's a patch for reopening the log file to better support -logging to files, even though it's less essential: -https://github.com/vyos/ppp-debian/commit/dd2ebd5cdcddb40230dc4cc43d374055f - -The patches were written by Stephen Hemminger back in the Vyatta times. - -mdns-repeater -------------- - -This package doesn't exist in Debian. A debianized fork is kept at -https://github.com/vyos/mdns-repeater - -No special build procedure is required. - -udp-broadcast-relay -------------------- - -This package doesn't exist in Debian. A debianized fork is kept at -https://github.com/vyos/udp-broadcast-relay - -No special build procedure is required. - -Linux kernel ------------- - -In the past a fork of the Kernel source code was kept at the well-known -location of https://github.com/vyos/vyos-kernel - where it is kept for history. - -Nowadays the Kernel we use is the upstream source code which is patched -with two additional patches from the good old Vyatta times which never made it -into the mainstream Kernel. The patches can be found here: -https://github.com/vyos/vyos-build-kernel/tree/current/patches/kernel and are -automatically applied to the Kernel by the Jenkins Pipeline which is used to -generate the Kernel binaries. - -The Pipeline script not only builds the Kernel with the configuration named -``x86_64_vyos_defconfig`` which is located in the vyos-build-kernel repository, -too - but in addition also builds some Intel out-of-tree drivers, WireGuard -(as long it is not upstreamed) and Accel-PPP. - -The ``Jenkinsfile`` tries to be as verbose as possible on each individual build -step. - -Linux firmware --------------- - -More and more hardware cards require an additional firmware which is not open -source. The Kernel community hosts a special linux-firmware Git repository -with all available binary files which can be loaded by the Kernel. - -The ``vyos-build`` repository fetches a specific commit of the linux-firmware -repository and embeds those binaries into the resulting ISO image. This step is -done in the ``data/live-build-config/hooks/live/40-linux-firmware.chroot`` file. - -If the firmware needs to be updated it is sufficient to just exchange the Git -commit id we reference in our build. - -Intel drivers -------------- - -Are build as part of the Kernel Pipeline - read above. - -Accel-PPP ---------- - -Accel-PPP used to be an upstream fork for quiet some time but now has been -converted to make use of the upstream source code and build system. - -It is build as part of the Kernel Pipeline - read above. - -hvinfo ------- - -A fork with packaging changes for VyOS is kept at https://github.com/vyos/hvinfo - -The original repo is at https://github.com/dmbaturin/hvinfo - -It's an Ada program and requires GNAT and gprbuild for building, dependencies -are properly specified so just follow debuild's suggestions. - -Per-file modifications ------------------------- - -vyos-replace package replaces the upstream dhclient-script with a modified -version that is aware of the VyOS config. |