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Add packaging, a CI workflow, and containerised local runs

3b39a84c913cabe15bfa6a60dd176ff2dd28d241 · Keenan Nemetz · 15d ago · parent 30a72490

Add packaging, a CI workflow, and containerised local runs

A v* tag now builds a .deb and a .rpm for amd64 and arm64 with nfpm and attaches them, with checksums, to the release. The package ships the systemd unit, a config at /etc/vole/vole.toml, and a postinstall that creates the service account and prepares the instance that config names; `vole admin init --config` is what makes that possible, and the binary's version is stamped from the tag instead of the source tree.

scripts/ci.sh becomes .vole/workflows/ci.yaml, so `vole workflow run ci` executes exactly what a push runs, and the Markdown link check moves to scripts/check-links.py. Local runs now always execute in the job image and share ci/container with the runner; --no-container is gone, because a run in a different environment proves nothing about CI.

The runner mounts a per-repository namespace at /cache and sets no variable for it: a job opts in through its image's env or the new job-level env, which is pinned with the queue and delivered with the lease. Whole namespaces are evicted least-recently-written first so a module cache is never half-deleted, and contributor branches get their own namespace so an untrusted tip cannot seed the cache a protected branch builds into.

Running the suite in that container found four bugs worth naming: /tmp was mounted noexec, which broke `go test` and `go run`; the read-only root is gone, because images make toolchain directories world-writable deliberately and the mount set is what protects the host; OpenSSH needs a passwd entry for the job's uid; and a lost metadata push reported as "cannot lock ref" was not classified as a race, so concurrent CLI writes gave up on the first collision. That retry now backs off exponentially with jitter.

.vole/images/release.yaml +13

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1 # The image a release build runs in. Pinned so a tag built twice builds the same
2 # way. It needs no packaging tools of its own: the steps fetch a pinned nfpm, which
3 # is also what makes `vole workflow run release` work locally.
4 version: 1
5 from: golang:1.27-bookworm
6 env:
7 CGO_ENABLED: "0"
8 # Opt in to the runner's cache mount, so a tag build reuses what CI already
9 # downloaded and compiled.
10 GOMODCACHE: "/cache/go-mod"
11 GOCACHE: "/cache/go-build"
12 run:
13 - apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends git ca-certificates && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*