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title: "Announcing Vieter 0.4.0"
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date: 2022-10-01
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---
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Right at the start of October, I managed to release another version of Vieter!
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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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The repository can also be used independently, providing a convenient server
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for publishing Arch packages from CI builds for example.
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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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### Renaming `repos` to `targets`
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Before 0.4.0, "repos" was the term used to describe the list of Git
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repositories that periodically get built on your Vieter instance. This term
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however was rather confusing, as the Vieter server itself also hosts Pacman
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repositories, making it difficult to correctly talk about the features. That's
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why I've made the decision to rename this to "targets". All CLI commands
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previously found under `vieter repos` can now be used via `vieter targets`
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instead. API routes have also been renamed.
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Along with this, a new kind of target can now be added which specifies the link
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to a PKGBUILD file, instead of a Git repository. This can for example be used
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to link a PKGBUILD that's contained inside some other Git repository that's not
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specifically used for that PKGBUILD.
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### Refactored web framework
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The underlying web framework has seen a proper refactor to better accomodate
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the rest of the codebase. All API routes can now be found under a versioned
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`/api/v1` prefix.
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The repository endpoints now support `DELETE` requests to remove packages,
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arch-repos & repos. All routes serving files (e.g. the repository routes) now
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support HTTP byte range requests, which not only allows Pacman to resume
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downloads after failure, but also allows tools such as
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[`axel`](https://github.com/axel-download-accelerator/axel) to work properly
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using a Vieter server.
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Endpoints creating new entries on the server now return the ID of the newly
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created object (e.g. a target or a build log).
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### CLI UX
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The CLI has seen some useful changes. There's now a `-r` flag that makes
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Vieter's output better for scripting. Besides that, a small tool has been added
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to interact with the AUR and add AUR packages directly to your list of targets!
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`vieter targets add` and `vieter logs add` now return the ID of the newly
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created entry.
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## Interested?
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If you're interested in Vieter, considering joining
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[#vieter:rustybever.be](https://matrix.to/#/#vieter:rustybever.be) on Matrix!
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The source code can be found on my personal
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[Gitea](https://git.rustybever.be/vieter/vieter).
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