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 ot…
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.
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 pl…
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-f…
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-f…
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: The addition of the build details page was the effect of a new plug…
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:
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 Graph…
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 iss…
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 binp…
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. Th…
Note: Since version 2.2.0 Gentoo Build Publisher (and the CLI) has the ability to pass a --repo flag to the build subcommand, rendering this article obsolete. The Gentoo Build Publisher command-line interface has the build subcommand, which…