Vieter

Documentation

I host documentation for Vieter over at https://rustybever.be/docs/vieter/. API documentation for the current codebase can be found at https://rustybever.be/api-docs/vieter/.

Overview

Vieter is a restart of the Pieter project. The goal is to create a simple, lightweight self-hostable Arch repository server, paired with a system that periodically builds & publishes select Arch packages. This would allow me to build AUR packages (or PKGBUILDs I created myself) "in the cloud" & make sure I never have to compile anything on my own systems, making my updates a lot quicker.

Why V?

I chose V as I've been very intrigued by this language for a while now. I wanted a fast language that I could code while relaxing, without having to exert too much mental effort & V seemed like the right choice for that.

Compiler

Vieter compiles with the standard Vlang compiler. However, I do maintain a mirror. This is to ensure my CI does not break without reason, as I control when & how frequently the mirror is updated to reflect the official repository.

Features

• Arch repository server
  • Support for multiple repositories & multiple architectures
  • Endpoints for publishing new packages
  • API for managing repositories to build
• Build system
  • Periodic rebuilding of packages
  • Prevent unnecessary rebuilds

Building

In order to build Vieter, you'll need a couple of libraries:

• An installation of V
• gc
• libarchive
• openssl

NOTE: if you encounter any issues compiling Vieter using the absolute latest version of V, it might be because my mirror is missing a specific commit that causes issues. For this reason, the make v command exists which will clone my compiler in the v directory & build it. Afterwards, you can use this compiler with make by prepending all make commands with V_PATH=v/v. If you do encounter this issue, please let me know so I can update my mirror & the codebase to fix it!

Contributing

If you wish to contribute to the project, please take note of the following:

• Rebase instead of merging whenever possible, e.g. when updating your branch with the dev branch.
• Please follow the Conventional Commits style for your commit messages.

Writing documentation

The docs directory contains a Hugo site consisting of all user & administrator documentation. docs/api on the other hand is a slate project describing the HTTP web API.

To modify the Hugo documentation, you'll need to install Hugo. Afterwards, you can use the following commands inside the docs directory:

# Build the documentation
hugo

# Host an auto-refreshing web server with the documentation. Important to note
is that the files will be at `http://localhost:1313/docs/vieter` instead of
just `http://localhost:1313/docs/vieter`
hugo server

For the Slate docs, I personally just start a docker container:

docker run \
    --rm \
    -p 4567:4567 \
    --name slate \
    -v $(pwd)/docs/api/source:/srv/slate/source slatedocs/slate serve

This'll make the slate docs available at http://localhost:4567. Sadly, this server doesn't auto-refresh, so you'll have to manually refresh your browser every time you make a change.