Archweb README

Customization notes: Modify the URL path and architecture argument (x86_64) if you need a different architecture or repository (e.g., extra). If the default mirror experiences downtime or slow speeds, you can swap the base URL with another mirror. Find a complete, up-to-date list of active mirrors at the Arch Linux Mirror Status page.

1. Database Updates for Added/Removed packages

For PostgreSQL use packages/sql/update.postgresql_psycopg2.sql

Testing SMTP server

To be able to create an account on your test environment an SMTP server is required. A simple debugging SMTP server can be setup using Python and aiosmtpd.

Install smtp group

uv sync --group smtp

Run the server

uv run python -m aiosmtpd -n -l localhost:1025

In local\_settings.py add entries to set EMAIL\_HOST to 'localhost' and EMAIL\_PORT to

1. Running tests and coverage

make collectstatic make test

Running coverage:

make coverage make open-coverage

Django Debug toolbar

To use the Django Debug toolbar install django-debug-toolbar and in local_settings.py set DEBUG_TOOLBAR to True.

Management commands

Archweb provides multiple management commands for importing various sorts of data. An overview of commands:

• generate_keyring - Assemble a GPG keyring with all known developer keys.
• pgp_import - Import keys and signatures from a given GPG keyring.
• read_rebuilderd_status - Import rebuilderd status into Archweb.
• rematch_developers - Rematch flag requests and packages where user_id/packager_id is NULL to a Developer.
• reporead - Parses a repo.db.tar.gz, repo.files.tar.gz file and updates the Arch database with the relevant changes.

• donor_import - Import a single donator from a mail passed to stdin
• mirrorcheck - Poll every active mirror URLs to store the lastsnyc time and record network timing details.
• mirrorresolv - Poll every active mirror URLs and determine whether they have IP4 and/or IPv6 addresses.
• populate_signoffs - retrieves the latest commit message of a signoff-eligible package.
• update_planet - Import all feeds for users who have a valid website and website_rss in their user profile.
• read_links - Reads a repo.links.db.tar.gz file and updates the Soname model.

• read_bumpbuddy_status - Imports the bumpbuddy out of date status.

Updating iPXE images

The binaries required for iPXE based netboot are updated by copying them from the ipxe package to the static content directory (with the run_ipxe script the binaries may be tested beforehand):

cp -v /usr/share/ipxe/x86_64/ipxe-arch.efi /usr/share/ipxe/ipxe-arch.{ipxe,lkrn} sitestatic/releng

Afterwards a detached PGP signature using a valid WKD enabled packager key is created for each file:

for artifact in sitestatic/netboot/*.{efi,pxe,lkrn}; do
  gpg --sender "User Name <[email protected]>" --detach-sign "$artifact"
done

Production Installation

Arch Linux has an Ansible role for Archweb in their infrastructure repo.

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