craft - Build automation tool for Linux

Age	Commit message (Collapse)	Author
2024-07-30	Remove duplicated network configHEAD main	xengineering

2024-07-29	Switch to execution in QEMU virtual machine	xengineering
	This ensures that the build environment is exactly the same. Furthermore security risks for the host are minimized.
2024-07-29	Enable internet access for VM	xengineering
	It is planned that the sources are first directly downloaded into the VM. Later they will be cloned on the host, transmitted via rsync to the VM and the artifacts downloaded from the VM to make the build process completely offline for reproducibility.
2024-07-28	Re-introduce password setting in VM preparation	xengineering
	This is useful to log into the VM manually e.g. for package updates.
2024-07-28	Wait for VM to boot	xengineering
	This waits for a little delay and then tries to run `true` via SSH on the virtual machine. If this does not work for a maximum amount of attempts a fatal error is raised and an appropriate log message is written.
2024-07-28	Switch to SSH keys instead of passwords	xengineering
	This is better for automation and security (which of course is only a thing if the default key is not used).
2024-07-21	Move from busybox ash to sh	xengineering
	`busybox` is not installed inside the current VM and there is no strict reason to use it. `sh` instead should be present on any targeted system.
2024-07-21	Startup VM parallel to craft execution on host	xengineering
	This prepares moving the workbench to the virtual machine. It furthermore adds the following command line arguments: - image - port See `craft --help` or the init() function for details.
2024-07-21	Remove craft.sh concept / add --task argument	xengineering
	There will likely be a way how a source repository can specify the default shell commands to build itself for craft. If this will be a pure shell file, YAML, JSON or something else is not clear for now. This commit removes the lookup of the craft.sh file and instead adds the --task command line argument to specify that script code. This might only be a temporary solution but is the best fit for now.
2024-07-21	Add missing docs for -repo and -commit	xengineering

2024-07-21	Switch order of startup and exit log message	xengineering
	While the exit log message is prefixed with `defer` and thus called at the end of the main function it is in theory possible that the startup log message fails. This would result in a exit message without startup message which is confusing. Furthermore it is not intuitive while reading the code to see the exit message first.
2024-07-21	Document how to log into the guest VM with SSH	xengineering

2024-07-21	Document how to run the VM for builds	xengineering
	This includes: - read-only / snapshot mode - port forwarding guest 22 to host 9999 - internet access - no visual display, serial only
2024-07-20	Add missing git package to install list	xengineering

2024-07-20	Enable SSH daemon in guest VM and allow root login	xengineering
	The guest VM should be accessible via SSH.
2024-07-20	Document how to build an Arch Linux Guest VM	xengineering
	This is important to document how the guest VM is built since the image will not be committed.
2024-07-20	Drop Git hook logic	xengineering
	This might be re-used later but the new goal is to make craft an independent build automation tool or service which might be called by a later provided git hook. Nevertheless the primary target for now is to build something which executes a build based on a repository reference but not triggered by a Git hook.
2024-07-06	Execute build function from craft.sh	xengineering
	craft.sh is the script which needs to be located inside the repository root to define how the repository should be used. The first defined function is `build()` which is used to build the repository content.
2024-07-06	Improve submodule update performance significantly	xengineering
	This commit add the usage of shallow submodule updates. Thus after checking out the targeted commit of the parent repository only the required commits of the submodules are fetched.
2024-07-06	Implement recursive submodule update	xengineering
	This adds support for repositories having submodules. Nevertheless all the required clone operations are complete which makes this process time consuming depending on the list of submodules.
2024-07-06	Prepare simple workbench	xengineering
	After detecting an update of a Git ref craft should create a throw-away Git clone of the repository with the new Git commit checked out. This is the starting point for executing build and test steps. Improving performance by tree-less or shallow clones and updating submodules is not yet implemented.
2024-07-06	Modify log output	xengineering
	- exit message - more consistent messages - refactoring to implement this
2024-07-05	README: Add build and usage documentation	xengineering

2024-07-05	Determine and validate Git hook type	xengineering
	Since craft should only be referenced by a symlink like that: ln -s /usr/bin/craft myrepo/.git/hooks/post-receive It is important to detect the hook type, in this case 'post-receive'. This commit also validates that the determined hook type is supported. Currently only the post-receive hook is supported.
2024-07-05	Add build.sh	xengineering
	This documents how to build craft.
2024-07-05	Print current working directory	xengineering
	When craft is used - as intended - as Git post-receive hook the current working directory should always be the .git folder. In case of bare repositories this should point to the bare repository.
2023-09-02	Add stdin parsing for Git post-receive hook	xengineering
	The first program for this repsoitory will be a Git post-receive hook which will be used at any source repository which is registered for automated builds.
2023-09-02	Add README.md with brief project description	xengineering