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title: "Announcing Vieter 0.3.0"
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date: 2022-06-03
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draft: true
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---
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When this post is live, Vieter 0.3.0 will have been released! This release
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really does come with a lot of new features, including more reliable builds and
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a new cron implementation!
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## What is Vieter?
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Vieter consists of two independents parts, namely an implementation of an Arch
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(Pacman) repository, & a build system to populate said repository. The goal is
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to remove the need for an AUR helper & move all builds to a remote server. Not
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only does this greatly reduce update times on lower-end systems, it also
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prevents AUR packages from being built multiple times on different systems.
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While I specifically mention Arch & the AUR, Vieter is compatible with any
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Pacman-based distro & can build PKGBUILDs provided from any Git source.
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## What's changed?
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### New cron daemon
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Perhaps the most important feature in this release is the implementation of a
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cron daemon. While 0.2.0 still relied on crond to periodically start builds,
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0.3.0 can schedule builds completely independently.
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The daemon understands a subset of the cron expression syntax. The build
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schedule can be either configured globally or on a per-repo basis. This allows
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the user to fine-tune certain packages, e.g. if they want them to be updated
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more regularly than all the rest.
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### More robust builds
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Often, a build would fail with exit code 8. This error indicates that makepkg
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wasn't able to install all dependencies, caused by the builder image not being
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up to date enough. Due to this, each build now runs `pacman -Syu` before running the actual build.
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Another useful additions to builds is that packages from the target repository are now
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