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+#!/usr/bin/env perl
+# 
+# Copyright (C) 2006 OpenWrt.org
+# Copyright (C) 2016 LEDE project
+#
+# This is free software, licensed under the GNU General Public License v2.
+# See /LICENSE for more information.
+#
+
+use strict;
+use warnings;
+use File::Basename;
+use File::Copy;
+use File::Path;
+use Text::ParseWords;
+use JSON::PP;
+
+@ARGV > 2 or die "Syntax: $0 <target dir> <filename> <hash> <url filename> [<mirror> ...]\n";
+
+my $url_filename;
+my $target = glob(shift @ARGV);
+my $filename = shift @ARGV;
+my $file_hash = shift @ARGV;
+$url_filename = shift @ARGV unless $ARGV[0] =~ /:\/\//;
+my $scriptdir = dirname($0);
+my @mirrors;
+my $ok;
+
+my $check_certificate = $ENV{DOWNLOAD_CHECK_CERTIFICATE} eq "y";
+my $custom_tool = $ENV{DOWNLOAD_TOOL_CUSTOM};
+my $download_tool;
+
+$url_filename or $url_filename = $filename;
+
+sub localmirrors {
+	my @mlist;
+	open LM, "$scriptdir/localmirrors" and do {
+	    while (<LM>) {
+			chomp $_;
+			push @mlist, $_ if $_;
+		}
+		close LM;
+	};
+	open CONFIG, "<".$ENV{'TOPDIR'}."/.config" and do {
+		while (<CONFIG>) {
+			/^CONFIG_LOCALMIRROR="(.+)"/ and do {
+				chomp;
+				my @local_mirrors = split(/;/, $1);
+				push @mlist, @local_mirrors;
+			};
+		}
+		close CONFIG;
+	};
+
+	my $mirror = $ENV{'DOWNLOAD_MIRROR'};
+	$mirror and push @mlist, split(/;/, $mirror);
+
+	return @mlist;
+}
+
+sub projectsmirrors {
+	my $project = shift;
+	my $append = shift;
+
+	open (PM, "$scriptdir/projectsmirrors.json") ||
+		die "Can´t open $scriptdir/projectsmirrors.json: $!\n";
+	local $/;
+	my $mirror_json = <PM>;
+	my $mirror = decode_json $mirror_json;
+
+	foreach (@{$mirror->{$project}}) {
+		push @mirrors, $_ . "/" . ($append or "");
+	}
+}
+
+sub which($) {
+	my $prog = shift;
+	my $res = `command -v $prog`;
+	$res or return undef;
+	return $res;
+}
+
+sub hash_cmd() {
+	my $len = length($file_hash);
+	my $cmd;
+
+	$len == 64 and return "$ENV{'MKHASH'} sha256";
+	$len == 32 and return "$ENV{'MKHASH'} md5";
+	return undef;
+}
+
+sub tool_present {
+	my $tool_name = shift;
+	my $compare_line = shift;
+	my $present = 0;
+
+	if (open TOOL, "$tool_name --version 2>/dev/null |") {
+		if (defined(my $line = readline TOOL)) {
+			$present = 1 if $line =~ /^$compare_line /;
+		}
+		close TOOL;
+	}
+
+	return $present
+}
+
+sub select_tool {
+	$custom_tool =~ tr/"//d;
+	if ($custom_tool) {
+		return $custom_tool;
+	}
+
+	# Try to use curl if available
+	if (tool_present("curl", "curl")) {
+		return "curl";
+	}
+
+	# No tool found, fallback to wget
+	return "wget";
+}
+
+sub download_cmd {
+	my $url = shift;
+	my $filename = shift;
+
+	if ($download_tool eq "curl") {
+		return (qw(curl -f --connect-timeout 20 --retry 5 --location),
+			$check_certificate ? () : '--insecure',
+			shellwords($ENV{CURL_OPTIONS} || ''),
+			$url);
+	} elsif ($download_tool eq "wget") {
+		return (qw(wget --tries=5 --timeout=20 --output-document=-),
+			$check_certificate ? () : '--no-check-certificate',
+			shellwords($ENV{WGET_OPTIONS} || ''),
+			$url);
+	} elsif ($download_tool eq "aria2c") {
+		my $additional_mirrors = join(" ", map "$_/$filename", @_);
+		my @chArray = ('a'..'z', 'A'..'Z', 0..9);
+		my $rfn = join '', "${filename}_", map{ $chArray[int rand @chArray] } 0..9;
+
+		@mirrors=();
+
+		return join(" ", "[ -d $ENV{'TMPDIR'}/aria2c ] || mkdir $ENV{'TMPDIR'}/aria2c;",
+			"touch $ENV{'TMPDIR'}/aria2c/${rfn}_spp;",
+			qw(aria2c --stderr -c -x2 -s10 -j10 -k1M), $url, $additional_mirrors,
+			$check_certificate ? () : '--check-certificate=false',
+			"--server-stat-of=$ENV{'TMPDIR'}/aria2c/${rfn}_spp",
+			"--server-stat-if=$ENV{'TMPDIR'}/aria2c/${rfn}_spp",
+			"--daemon=false --no-conf", shellwords($ENV{ARIA2C_OPTIONS} || ''),
+			"-d $ENV{'TMPDIR'}/aria2c -o $rfn;",
+			"cat $ENV{'TMPDIR'}/aria2c/$rfn;",
+			"rm $ENV{'TMPDIR'}/aria2c/$rfn $ENV{'TMPDIR'}/aria2c/${rfn}_spp");
+	} else {
+		return join(" ", $download_tool, $url);
+	}
+}
+
+my $hash_cmd = hash_cmd();
+$hash_cmd or ($file_hash eq "skip") or die "Cannot find appropriate hash command, ensure the provided hash is either a MD5 or SHA256 checksum.\n";
+
+sub download
+{
+	my $mirror = shift;
+	my $download_filename = shift;
+	my @additional_mirrors = @_;
+
+	$mirror =~ s!/$!!;
+
+	if ($mirror =~ s!^file://!!) {
+		if (! -d "$mirror") {
+			print STDERR "Wrong local cache directory -$mirror-.\n";
+			cleanup();
+			return;
+		}
+
+		if (! -d "$target") {
+			make_path($target);
+		}
+
+		if (! open TMPDLS, "find $mirror -follow -name $filename 2>/dev/null |") {
+			print("Failed to search for $filename in $mirror\n");
+			return;
+		}
+
+		my $link;
+
+		while (defined(my $line = readline TMPDLS)) {
+			chomp ($link = $line);
+			if ($. > 1) {
+				print("$. or more instances of $filename in $mirror found . Only one instance allowed.\n");
+				return;
+			}
+		}
+
+		close TMPDLS;
+
+		if (! $link) {
+			print("No instances of $filename found in $mirror.\n");
+			return;
+		}
+
+		print("Copying $filename from $link\n");
+		copy($link, "$target/$filename.dl");
+
+		$hash_cmd and do {
+			if (system("cat '$target/$filename.dl' | $hash_cmd > '$target/$filename.hash'")) {
+				print("Failed to generate hash for $filename\n");
+				return;
+			}
+		};
+	} else {
+		my @cmd = download_cmd("$mirror/$download_filename", $download_filename, @additional_mirrors);
+		print STDERR "+ ".join(" ",@cmd)."\n";
+		open(FETCH_FD, '-|', @cmd) or die "Cannot launch aria2c, curl or wget.\n";
+		$hash_cmd and do {
+			open MD5SUM, "| $hash_cmd > '$target/$filename.hash'" or die "Cannot launch $hash_cmd.\n";
+		};
+		open OUTPUT, "> $target/$filename.dl" or die "Cannot create file $target/$filename.dl: $!\n";
+		my $buffer;
+		while (read FETCH_FD, $buffer, 1048576) {
+			$hash_cmd and print MD5SUM $buffer;
+			print OUTPUT $buffer;
+		}
+		$hash_cmd and close MD5SUM;
+		close FETCH_FD;
+		close OUTPUT;
+
+		if ($? >> 8) {
+			print STDERR "Download failed.\n";
+			cleanup();
+			return;
+		}
+	}
+
+	$hash_cmd and do {
+		my $sum = `cat "$target/$filename.hash"`;
+		$sum =~ /^(\w+)\s*/ or die "Could not generate file hash\n";
+		$sum = $1;
+
+		if ($sum ne $file_hash) {
+			print STDERR "Hash of the downloaded file does not match (file: $sum, requested: $file_hash) - deleting download.\n";
+			cleanup();
+			return;
+		}
+	};
+
+	unlink "$target/$filename";
+	move("$target/$filename.dl", "$target/$filename");
+	cleanup();
+}
+
+sub cleanup
+{
+	unlink "$target/$filename.dl";
+	unlink "$target/$filename.hash";
+}
+
+@mirrors = localmirrors();
+
+foreach my $mirror (@ARGV) {
+	if ($mirror =~ /^\@SF\/(.+)$/) {
+		# give sourceforge a few more tries, because it redirects to different mirrors
+		for (1 .. 5) {
+			projectsmirrors '@SF', $1;
+		}
+	} elsif ($mirror =~ /^\@OPENWRT$/) {
+		# use OpenWrt source server directly
+	} elsif ($mirror =~ /^\@DEBIAN\/(.+)$/) {
+		projectsmirrors '@DEBIAN', $1;
+	} elsif ($mirror =~ /^\@APACHE\/(.+)$/) {
+		projectsmirrors '@APACHE', $1;
+	} elsif ($mirror =~ /^\@GITHUB\/(.+)$/) {
+		# give github a few more tries (different mirrors)
+		for (1 .. 5) {
+			projectsmirrors '@GITHUB', $1;
+		}
+	} elsif ($mirror =~ /^\@GNU\/(.+)$/) {
+		projectsmirrors '@GNU', $1;
+	} elsif ($mirror =~ /^\@SAVANNAH\/(.+)$/) {
+		projectsmirrors '@SAVANNAH', $1;
+	} elsif ($mirror =~ /^\@KERNEL\/(.+)$/) {
+		my @extra = ( $1 );
+		if ($filename =~ /linux-\d+\.\d+(?:\.\d+)?-rc/) {
+			push @extra, "$extra[0]/testing";
+		} elsif ($filename =~ /linux-(\d+\.\d+(?:\.\d+)?)/) {
+			push @extra, "$extra[0]/longterm/v$1";
+		}
+		foreach my $dir (@extra) {
+			projectsmirrors '@KERNEL', $dir;
+		}
+	} elsif ($mirror =~ /^\@GNOME\/(.+)$/) {
+		projectsmirrors '@GNOME', $1;
+	} else {
+		push @mirrors, $mirror;
+	}
+}
+
+projectsmirrors '@OPENWRT';
+
+if (-f "$target/$filename") {
+	$hash_cmd and do {
+		if (system("cat '$target/$filename' | $hash_cmd > '$target/$filename.hash'")) {
+			die "Failed to generate hash for $filename\n";
+		}
+
+		my $sum = `cat "$target/$filename.hash"`;
+		$sum =~ /^(\w+)\s*/ or die "Could not generate file hash\n";
+		$sum = $1;
+
+		cleanup();
+		exit 0 if $sum eq $file_hash;
+
+		die "Hash of the local file $filename does not match (file: $sum, requested: $file_hash) - deleting download.\n";
+		unlink "$target/$filename";
+	};
+}
+
+$download_tool = select_tool();
+
+while (!-f "$target/$filename") {
+	my $mirror = shift @mirrors;
+	$mirror or die "No more mirrors to try - giving up.\n";
+
+	download($mirror, $url_filename, @mirrors);
+	if (!-f "$target/$filename" && $url_filename ne $filename) {
+		download($mirror, $filename, @mirrors);
+	}
+}
+
+$SIG{INT} = \&cleanup;