Haiku IPFS mirroring quick start

This guide serves as a quickstart to mirroring Haiku's releases and repositories on IPFS.

Essentially, you will be "seeding" Haiku packages / artifacts in Bittorrent speak. (IPFS is not Bittorrent, just the same concept)

Requirements

A computer with at least 4 GiB of RAM running Linux, MacOS, Windows
- A Raspberry Pi 4 works just fine as well :-)
An internet connection (dynamic or static ip)
Ability to accept incoming connections on tcp port 4001
- Incoming requests to your router on tcp port 4001 should be forwarded to the system where IPFS is running.
- https://www.lifewire.com/how-to-port-forward-4163829
250 GiB of free disk space

Install the IPFS Desktop application
Once IPFS desktop is started, click SETTINGS
Under IPFS Config find StorageMax. Change from 10GB to 250GB (or more)
1. This is important and prevents needing to re-download data if your pin fails
Click save
Exit IPFS Desktop, and start it again.
Click FILES -> Import -> From IPFS
Enter /ipns/hpkg.haiku-os.org

Be sure to occasionally follow steps 6 and 7 to pull the latest updates.

Install the IPFS CLI
Be sure to Initialize the repository, and start the IPFS daemon (ensure you don't provide the --enable-gc flag)
Run ipfs pin --progress /ipns/hpkg.haiku-os.org
This command will take some time. Be paitent

Be sure to occasionally follow step 4 to pull the latest updates. Nightly or weekly is best.