aur-buildserver-next

This is a buildserver for the Archlinux User Repository (AUR) along with a web-interface to manage the builds.

Both server and web-interface are written in Typescript, the server uses express and the web-interface uses Next.js.

The dependency resolution is a bit hacky. I fetch the dependencies from the AUR and add them in the database. Build processes may only start when all dependencies are built. This means, if you start a job to build all packages, eventually all packages will be built.

Features

• Build packages from the AUR
• Automatically build packages when they are updated
• Sign packages with GPG
• Web-interface to manage builds

Future Ideas

• I might rewrite it one day to use systemd-nspawn. This would mean actual clean and isolated builds, while not requiring Docker-in-Docker.

Structure

• backend/: The server code. It is an express server along with a SQLite database accessed via Prisma. It also schedules build.
• frontend/: The web-interface code. It is a Next.js application using the app-directory structure. For UI components, it uses material-ui.

Development

For convenience, there is a docker-compose.yml file that starts the server and the web-interface in development mode. To start the development environment, run:

docker-compose up

The web-interface will be available at http://localhost:3042 and will route API requests to the server at http://localhost:5768.

Deployment

Both the server and the web-interface can be deployed using the provided Dockerfiles. The Dockerfiles are located in the backend/ and frontend/ directories.