geek42

Convert GLEP 42 Gentoo news repositories into a static blog with RSS/Atom feeds, Markdown exports, and a terminal reader — no eselect news required.

Features

• Local-first blog — write news items in your git repo, push to publish
• Static site — generates a self-contained HTML site ready for GitHub Pages or any static host
• Pre-commit blog compiler — auto-generates Markdown files and a README index on commit
• RSS + Atom feeds — standards-compliant feeds generated from stdlib (no extra deps)
• Markdown exports — each news item exported as .md with YAML frontmatter (Jekyll/Hugo compatible)
• Compose and revise — new and revise commands open $EDITOR with templates and auto-lint
• Full GLEP 42 metadata — packages, architectures, profiles, revision, format version all preserved
• Multiple sources — optionally aggregate news from remote GLEP 42 git repos
• Terminal reader — list and read commands with Rich formatting
• Semantic HTML — Schema.org JSON-LD, Open Graph, proper <article>/<time>/<address> elements
• Dark mode — respects prefers-color-scheme

Install

Requires Python 3.13+.

uv tool install geek42

Quickstart

# Create a git repo for your news blog
mkdir my-blog && cd my-blog
git init

# Scaffold the repo (config, pre-commit, CI, README, ...)
geek42 init --title "My Blog"

# Set up pre-commit hooks
uv sync --dev && pre-commit install

# Write your first post (opens $EDITOR)
geek42 new

# Commit and push (pre-commit compiles blog automatically)
geek42 commit
geek42 push

Configuration

geek42.toml (created by geek42 init):

title = "My News"
author = "Your Name <you@example.org>"
description = "News Items"
base_url = ""
output_dir = "_site"
data_dir = ".geek42"
language = "en"

[[sources]]
name = "local"
url = "."

# To read news from remote repositories:
# [[sources]]
# name = "gentoo"
# url = "https://anongit.gentoo.org/git/data/glep42-news-gentoo.git"
# branch = "master"

CLI Commands

geek42 init              Create a default geek42.toml
geek42 new               Create a new news item (opens $EDITOR)
geek42 new -e nano       Use a specific editor
geek42 new -C <dir>      Create a news item in a specific directory
geek42 revise <id>       Revise an existing item (bump rev, open $EDITOR)
geek42 lint <path>       Lint a news file or repository directory
geek42 lint --strict .   Treat warnings as errors
geek42 compile-blog      Compile Markdown files and update README index
geek42 build --no-pull   Build static site from local items
geek42 list              List news items in a Rich table
geek42 list -C <dir>     List news items from a specific directory
geek42 read <id>         Read a specific news item in the terminal
geek42 pull              Clone or update remote news sources
geek42 build             Pull remote sources and build the static site
geek42 commit            Stage news, compile blog, commit (like pkgdev commit)
geek42 commit -m "msg"   Commit with a custom message
geek42 push              Push commits to the remote
geek42 deploy-status     Check GitHub Pages and CI status (requires gh)
geek42 sign              Generate gemato-compatible Manifest checksums
geek42 sign -k KEY_ID    Sign the Manifest with gpg
geek42 verify            Verify Manifest checksums and signature

Most commands accept --directory / -C to operate on a directory other than the current one. Config, data, and output paths are resolved relative to that directory.

Lint codes

Repository Layout

News items live under metadata/news/ (standard portage layout):

my-blog/
  metadata/news/
    2025-11-30-flexiblas-migration/
      2025-11-30-flexiblas-migration.en.txt
    ...
  geek42.toml

Dedicated news-only repos (like glep42-news-gentoo.git) that store items at the root are also supported — geek42 auto-detects the layout.

Output Structure

_site/
  index.html            Main listing page
  style.css             Stylesheet (dark mode aware)
  rss.xml               RSS 2.0 feed
  atom.xml              Atom 1.0 feed
  posts/
    2025-11-30-flexiblas-migration.html
    ...
  markdown/
    2025-11-30-flexiblas-migration.md
    ...

Development

uv sync

# Run tests with coverage
uv run pytest

# Linting
uv run ruff check src/ tests/
uv run ruff format --check src/ tests/

# Type checking
uv run ty check

GitHub Pages Deployment

Add a workflow like .github/workflows/deploy.yml:

name: Deploy

on:
  push:
    branches: [main]

jobs:
  deploy:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    permissions:
      pages: write
      id-token: write
    environment:
      name: github-pages
      url: ${{ steps.deployment.outputs.page_url }}
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - uses: astral-sh/setup-uv@v6
      - run: uv tool install geek42
      - run: geek42 build --no-pull
      - uses: actions/upload-pages-artifact@v3
        with:
          path: _site
      - id: deployment
        uses: actions/deploy-pages@v4

Documentation

• docs/news-format.md — GLEP 42 format spec, blog maintenance workflow, reading other people's news
• docs/security-setup.md — repo owner security configuration checklist

Security

• Disclosure policy: SECURITY.md
• Contributing: CONTRIBUTING.md (signed commits required)
• Supply chain: Releases are built by GitHub Actions with SLSA Level 3 provenance, signed with sigstore, and published to PyPI via OIDC trusted publishing. Every release ships with a CycloneDX SBOM and build attestations.

Verifying a release

# Download wheel and attestations
gh release download v0.1.0 --repo IvanAnishchuk/geek42

# Verify sigstore signature (requires `uv tool install sigstore`)
uv tool run sigstore verify identity \
    --cert-identity-regexp '^https://github\.com/IvanAnishchuk/geek42/\.github/workflows/release\.yml@' \
    --cert-oidc-issuer 'https://token.actions.githubusercontent.com' \
    --bundle geek42-0.1.0-py3-none-any.whl.sigstore \
    geek42-0.1.0-py3-none-any.whl

# Verify GitHub build provenance
gh attestation verify geek42-0.1.0-py3-none-any.whl --owner IvanAnishchuk

# Verify SLSA L3 provenance
slsa-verifier verify-artifact \
    --provenance-path geek42-provenance.intoto.jsonl \
    --source-uri github.com/IvanAnishchuk/geek42 \
    --source-tag v0.1.0 \
    geek42-0.1.0-py3-none-any.whl

License

CC0 1.0 Universal — public domain dedication.