Installation
System Requirements
Lorry is designed to run on a Linux distribution and should have at least two cores, 512mb of memory or more and adequate disk space to hold the contents of each configured mirror and raw file remote.
Runtime Dependencies
Note that only the Git binary need to be installed on your system, the other components are embedded in Lorry's crate dependencies.
| Dependency | Description |
|---|---|
| git | Used for non libgit2 cloning operations |
| libgit2 | Used for various repository management |
| sqlite3 | Stateful repository metadata |
From Helm
A Helm chart for running Lorry on Kubernetes is available here
From your Package Manager
Arch Linux
A distribution package of Lorry is available on the AUR.
Other Operating Systems
If you're Linux distribution doesn't have a system package please consider creating one, merge requests are most welcome in this regard. Please open up an issue to track your distributions progress here.
From Source
To install Lorry from source you simply need to clone its Git repository and compile it with the standard Rust tool chain.
Build Dependencies
Ensure you have sqlx available on your PATH, typically it can be installed
either by your system's package manager or by running cargo install sqlx-cli.
| Dependency | Description |
|---|---|
| sqlx | Used for compile time verficiation of sql queries |
git clone https://gitlab.com/CodethinkLabs/lorry/lorry2.git
cd lorry2
# Initialize Lorry's database in the repository
scripts/init_db_if_missing.sh
# Compile the Lorry binary
cargo build --release
# Test the compiled binary
target/release/lorry --help
From this point you can modify the lorry.example.toml file to your liking pointing it at your gitlab instance.