It's been four years since I've talked about Gentoo Build Publisher's GraphQL API. The 3.2 release contains a number of improvements worth mentioning.
The GraphQL API is mostly intended to support the CLI, however it can also be used for other purposes. Plugins can also extend the API …
For a while I have been thinking about writing documentation on how to write plugins for Gentoo Build Publisher. There have been a couple of reasons for putting it off, the main one is that the plugin system is still in active development. But I figured that if I instead …
I have released Gentoo Build Publisher 3.0.0. The reason for the major version bump is due to backwards-incompatible changes, which include:
Support for "old-style" plugins has been dropped. The original multi-entrypoint way of declaring plugins has been removed. None of the "official" plugins use this method anymore so …
I would like to introduce unittest-fixtures. The
unittest-fixtures package is a
helper for the
unittest.TestCase class
that allows one to define fixtures as simple functions and declare them in
your TestCase using decorators.
The unittest-fixtures package is available now from PyPI.
The following is extracted from the project's README …
Gentoo Build Publisher 2.7.0 has been released. Gentoo Build Publisher is a CI/CD binhost/repo publishing system for Gentoo Linux. Notable features in this release include:
Gentoo Build Publisher 2.5.0 is now released, along with releases for its various plugins. Speaking of plugins, when 2.0.0 was released I was very pleased that GBP had support for plugins. Back then there were (only) two plugins available: gbp-ps and gbp-notifications. Since then the plugins …
This article explains how to enable authentication in Gentoo Build Publisher using API keys to secure the server's access via GraphQL.
The gbpcli command-line tool (client) communicates with Gentoo Build
Publisher (server) by way of a GraphQL API. Some of
the gbpcli subcommands (e.g. pull, tag, etc). change the …
The upcoming release of Gentoo Build Publisher will have the ability to dump and restore builds to an archive. For a while I've wanted this feature but just never got around to it. The main reason that I wanted it is that when I find an issue on my "production …
There's a new plugin for Gentoo Build Publisher available: gbp-fl. Think of it as e-file or equery files but instead it indexes files from binary packages on Gentoo Build Publisher. For example:
But more than that it can also fetch the binpkgs without having to go through portage:
More features …
A powerful feature of Gentoo is the ability to pull in packages from multiple third party repos (aka overlays). Gentoo Build Publisher also takes advantage of this feature, so that a machine definition declares which repos it depends on. This is in fact one of the advantages of using GBP …