8. piw-rebuild

The piw-rebuild script is used to inject rebuild requests for various web pages into the piwheels system. This script must be run on the same node as the piw-master script.

8.1. Synopsis

piw-rebuild [-h] [--version] [-c FILE] [-q] [-v] [-l FILE] [-y]
            [--import-queue ADDR]
            part [package]

8.2. Description

-h, --help

Show this help message and exit

--version

Show program’s version number and exit

-c FILE, --configuration FILE

Specify a configuration file to load

-q, --quiet

Produce less console output

-v, --verbose

Produce more console output

-l FILE, --log-file FILE

Log messages to the specified file

-y, --yes

Run non-interactively; never prompt during operation

--import-queue ADDR

The address of the queue used by piw-rebuild (default: (ipc:///tmp/piw-import); this should always be an ipc address

8.3. Usage

This utility is used to request rebuilds of parts of the piwheels website. This is primarily useful after manual fixes to the database, manipulation of the file-system, or after large-scale upgrades which require rebuilding many pages.

The mandatory part parameter can be one of the following values, which specify which part of the website to rebuild:

Part Description
home Rebuild the home-page (/index.html)
search Rebuild the JSON search-index (/packages.json)
project Rebuild the project-page for the specified package (/project/package/index.html)
index Rebuild the simple-index and the project-page for the specified package (/simple/package/index.html and /project/package/index.html)

If part is “project” or “index” you may optionally specify a package name for which to rebuild the specified part. If the package name is omitted, the utility will request a rebuild of the specified part for all known packages in the system.

Warning

In the case a rebuild of all packages is requested, you will be prompted to make sure you wish to continue (this option can take hours to process on a system with many builds). The --yes option can be used to skip this prompt but should be used carefully!

Note that the utility only requests the rebuild of the specified part. This request will be queued, and acted upon as soon as The Scribe reaches it but there is no guarantee this has occurred by the time the utility exits. The return code will be 0 if the rebuild request was queued successfully. If anything fails the return code will be non-zero and the request may or may not have been queued.

The utility should only ever be run directly on the master node (opening the import queue to other machines is a potential security risk).