---
title: "Vieter"
summary: "Arch Linux repository server & build system, written in V"
type: "project"
params:
    links:
        - name: Source
          url: 'https://git.rustybever.be/vieter-v/vieter'
        - name: Docs
          url: '/docs/vieter'
        - name: API Docs
          url: '/api-docs/vieter'
---

Vieter is my personal solution to a problem I’ve been facing for months:
extremely long AUR package build times. I run EndeavourOS on all my systems,
meaning I'm updating my systems fairly frequently. I really like being a
beta-tester for projects & run development builds for multiple packages.
Because of this, I have to regularly re-build these packages in order to stay
up to date with development. However, these builds can take a really long time,
even on my more powerful laptop. This project is a solution to that problem:
instead of building the packages locally, I can build them automatically in the
cloud & just download them whenever I update my system! Thanks to this
solution, I’m able to shave 10-15 minutes off my update times, just from not
having to compile everything every time there’s an update.

Besides this, it’s also just really useful to have a repository server that you
control & can upload your own packages to. For example, I package my st
terminal using a CI pipeline & upload it to my repository!