GooGet Server

This is a simple example of what a GooGet server looks like. The server looks for a folder in it's root directory called 'packages', creating it if necesary. The directory contents are read on a set interval and all .goo packages served in the repo 'repo'. You can then point a client at http://localhost:8000/repo, or view http://localhost:8000/repo/index in a browser.

Improvements to this design would include only updating the repository on a package change as well as providing and api for adding/removing packages.

The server code can also be used to generate a package index from files in Google Cloud Storage, note that this functionality only works with writing out the index, not serving the index via the inbuilt webserver. The -root flag should be the root of the package repository, -repo_name is the name you want for your repo, and -package_path is the folder, relative to root, where the packages are stored. In the below example the index file will be written to gs://my-bucket/goorepos/myrepo/index, packages are store under gs://my-bucket/goorepos/packages.

go run gooserve.go -repo_name myrepo -root gs://my-bucket/goorepos -package_path packages -save_index

WARNING: If you use Powershell and -dump_index instead of -save_index, make sure to save the file as UTF-8. If you see an error like ERROR: 2018/05/26 09:23:56.329402 client.go:100: error reading repo "gs://my-bucket/googet/": invalid character 'ÿ' looking for beginning of value, that's likely the problem.

# Don't do this, your index file will be UTF-16, which googet won't handle
go run gooserve.go -root /tmp/goorepo/ -dump_index > /tmp/goorepo/index
# Preserving the encoding fixes the problem
go run gooserve.go -root /tmp/goorepo/ -dump_index | Out-File index -Encoding OEM