ferryd is the binary repository manager for Solus. This is a reimplementation of the current binman Python code, in keeping with Solus' goals of using Go for this kind of tooling.

ferryd aims to provide simple management of Solus repositories, with a git-like feel, and a rigid approach to caching, by pooling assets and hardlinking them into the appropriate place.

Note: ferryd is currently a work in progress, and is currently our highest priority work item.

ferryd is a Solus project.

ferryd should provide easy maintainence of eopkg repositories without the need for any host side tooling. It should provide git like syntax to enable creation, modification, and deletion of repositories.

It should support the concept of a processing queue, where we wait for a full upload payload to become available, before then merging them into the repository database.

To reduce the cost of indexing a repository (many thousands of packages) a simple database should be used to enable very quick dumping to the eopkg-index.xml.

ferryd should also support the automatic creation of .delta.eopkg delta packages to reduce the cost of update for users. While the existing binman.py implementation can do all these things, it is very limited, inefficient, and often misses delta opportunities.

• Restore delta op per package
• Restore delta operation for whole repo
• Fire off delta job for each new package in the transit manifest - parallel
• Get delta inclusion working
• Mark failed deltas
• Then have per-delta fire off sequential Index job for the entire repo (cheap enough)
• Handle garbage collection of deltas when including new delta
• Handle garbage collection of all deltas when removing a package
• Add clone operation to clone one repo to another (optionally all or tip)
• Add pull operation to pull from one repo into another (missing and mismatched)
• Add delete operation to remove repo (unref cycle)
• Add trim commands
• Maybe add trim subcommand to nuke obsoletes ?
• Throw another shedload of data and test upload cycle/bump upload/delta/index
• Stats UI? i.e. ongoing jobs, recently completed, etc.
• Restore binman parity, allow removing package (by release number), copying a single package, group of packages, etc.

Start ferryd to monitor ferryd.sock:

./bin/ferryd

Create a repo:

./bin/ferryctl create-repo testing

Add packages:

./bin/ferryctl import testing path/to/eopkgs

Copyright © 2016-2017 Solus Project, ferryd Developers (See AUTHORS file)

ferryd is available under the terms of the Apache-2.0 license