diff --git a/content/posts/vieter-0.3.0/index.md b/content/posts/vieter-0.3.0/index.md deleted file mode 100644 index d6a76f4..0000000 --- a/content/posts/vieter-0.3.0/index.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,69 +0,0 @@ ---- -title: "Announcing Vieter 0.3.0" -date: 2022-06-13 ---- - -When this post is live, Vieter 0.3.0 will have been released! This release -really does come with a lot of new features, including more reliable builds and -a new cron implementation! - -This release ended up taking me over two months, but I'm quite proud of it :) -It not only adds a lot of useful features, but also paves the way for a lot -more cool features down the road! - -## What is Vieter? - -Vieter consists of two independents parts, namely an implementation of an Arch -(Pacman) repository, & a build system to populate said repository. The goal is -to remove the need for an AUR helper & move all builds to a remote server. Not -only does this greatly reduce update times on lower-end systems, it also -prevents AUR packages from being built multiple times on different systems. - -The repository can also be used independently, providing a convenient server -for publishing Arch packages from CI builds for example. - -While I specifically mention Arch & the AUR, Vieter is compatible with any -Pacman-based distro & can build PKGBUILDs provided from any Git source. - -## What's changed? - -### New cron daemon - -Perhaps the most important feature in this release is the implementation of a -cron daemon. While 0.2.0 still relied on crond to periodically start builds, -0.3.0 can schedule builds completely independently. - -The daemon understands a subset of the cron expression syntax. The build -schedule can be either configured globally or on a per-repo basis. This allows -the user to fine-tune certain packages, e.g. if they want them to be updated -more regularly than all the rest. - -### More robust builds - -Often, a build would fail with exit code 8. This error indicates that makepkg -wasn't able to install all dependencies, caused by the builder image not being -up to date enough. Due to this, each build now runs `pacman -Syu` before -running the actual build. - -Builds can now also use dependencies that are part of the target repository. -This allows building packages with AUR dependencies, as long as all -dependencies are also being built for said repository. - -### Build logs - -The main server now stores the logs of each build, including the exit code. -This makes it a lot easier to debug why builds fail. - -### Improved documentation - -The [Vieter documentation](https://rustybever.be/docs/vieter/) has had a pretty -major re-write to get it up to date with this new release. Now there's also -[HTTP API docs](https://rustybever.be/docs/vieter/api/#introduction) & [man -pages](https://rustybever.be/man/vieter/vieter.1.html). - -## Interested? - -If you're interested in Vieter, considering joining -[#vieter:rustybever.be](https://matrix.to/#/#vieter:rustybever.be) on Matrix! -The source code can be found on my personal -[Gitea](https://git.rustybever.be/vieter/vieter).