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Wheelie

This repo builds and uploads wheels for pip packages commonly used in linuxserver.io images.

The wheel index is located at https://wheel-index.linuxserver.io The wheels are downloaded from https://wheels.linuxserver.io

Ubuntu and Alpine packages (glibc and musl respectively)

Only 2 files are user configurable:

  • distros.txt: lists the distros the wheels are built with. Should be in the format of either ubuntu:focal or alpine:3.14 (only ubuntu and alpine versions are supported).
  • packages.txt: lists the packages for which the wheels are built.

After modifying the above two files, you can either wait until the scheduler runs (hourly) or manually trigger the github workflow wheelie-scheduler.yml

If adding a new package to packages.txt please make sure the Dockerfile has all the necessary dependencies installed, by testing locally first. To do that, follow the steps below:

  • Clone the repo: git clone https://github.com/aptalca/wheels.git
  • Enter the folder: cd wheels
  • Test all the distros (may need to use the arm32v7 versions if amd64 already has prebuilt wheels in pypi):
    • docker build --build-arg DISTRO=alpine --build-arg DISTROVER=3.14 --build-arg ARCH=amd64 --build-arg PACKAGES=gevent .
    • docker build --build-arg DISTRO=alpine --build-arg DISTROVER=3.13 --build-arg ARCH=amd64 --build-arg PACKAGES=gevent .
    • docker build --build-arg DISTRO=ubuntu --build-arg DISTROVER=focal --build-arg ARCH=arm32v7 --build-arg PACKAGES=gevent .
    • docker build --build-arg DISTRO=ubuntu --build-arg DISTROVER=bionic --build-arg ARCH=arm32v7 --build-arg PACKAGES=gevent .
  • If the build fails (or if it downloads a prebuilt wheel instead of building), you can add the necessary dependencies to the Dockerfile and/or change the arch, and test again (build cache should save some time).
  • Once confirmed, you can commit your changes to this repo and let the scheduler trigger in the next hourly.

Home Assistant packages (musl)

Home Assistant installs over 1,000 pip packages, many of which don't have prebuilt wheels. HA also doesn't rely on the latest versions of these packages, and most if not all of them are pinned to older versions, which makes our regular wheelie not very useful.

We came up with a custom wheelie specifically for HA. It specifically builds and pushes the HA pinned versions of packages for each new release. The workflow is integrated with the HA docker image's workflow and is as follows:

  1. wheelie_HA_scheduler runs every hour, grabs the 3 requirements.txt files (core, core-all and base) from the latest HA release and compares them to the saved versions in this repo.
    • If they're the same, it triggers the HA docker repo's external trigger scheduler so it can check for a new version.
    • If they're different, it triggers wheelie_HA
  2. wheelie_HA grabs the 3 requirements.txt files from the latest HS release, spins up 3 docker images (1 for each arch), builds and pushes all the HA required wheels. When done, it first updates the 3 requirements.txt files in this repo and then it triggers the HA docker repo's external trigger scheduler so it can check for a new version (if the requirments files were changed that suggests a new HA release was indeed published).
  3. HA docker repo's external trigger scheduler is currently disabled, so it is no longer triggered by cron to prevent premature HA builds (building HA docker before all the new packages are uploaded by wheelie_HA). It is only triggered when the wheelie_HA_scheduler and wheelie_HA of this repo are completed successfully. When it finds a new release of HA, it in turn triggers the HA docker repo's external trigger, which initiates a docker build on jenkins. As a result, it ensured that whenever the HA docker build is triggered due to a new HA release, the new pip packages are already on the wheel repo so none of the packages have to be built from scratch on jenkins.