Today I jotted down some fresh code for tarball automation. The needs of such automation are so simple it made sense to write it in bash. I thought I’d share it here. Suggestions are always welcome. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
#!\/bin\/sh\n\n### PART 1: UPDATE SEED\n\n# Get text file describing latest stage3 tarball.\n# -O option circumvents wget creating a new file on every run and gives us a fixed filename to use.\n# The wget -S option is --server-response, which can be grepped.\n# ssmtp.conf has been configured.\nurl=\"https:\/\/distfiles.gentoo.org\/releases\/amd64\/autobuilds\/latest-stage3-amd64-desktop-systemd.txt\"\nemail=\"webmaster@gentoostudio.org\"\nif [[ `wget -S --spider $url 2>&1 | grep 'HTTP\/1.1 200 OK'` ]];\n then wget -O latest.txt $url;\n else\n ssmtp -v $email < wget_textfile_failmsg\n echo \"Remote file does not exist. Mail sent to $email.\"\n exit 1;\nfi\n\n# Parse text file for URL\n# Use tail cmd to read last line of file, which is all we need,\n# then use sed to chop off everything after the space in that line\n# When wget is done, move the file to where its needed\n# (The mv destination is a symlink)\n# Not sure we need an ifelse here. If the above check passes, this wget should work.\nlatest=$(tail -n 1 latest.txt | sed 's#[[:space:]].*##')\nwget -O stage3seed.tar.xz https:\/\/distfiles.gentoo.org\/releases\/amd64\/autobuilds\/$latest\nmv stage3seed.tar.xz catalyst-tarballs\n\n### PART 2: SYNC\n\neix-sync\ncatalyst -s latest\n\n### PART 3: STAGE1 BUILD\n\ncatalyst -af stage1.spec\n# TODO: Error detection and mail notification\n\n### PART 4: STAGE2 BUILD\n\ncatalyst -af stage2.spec\n# TODO: Error detection and mail notification\n\n### PART 5: STAGE3 BUILD\n\ncatalyst -af stage3.spec\n# TODO: Error detection and mail notification\n\n### PART 6: STAGE4 BUILD\n\ncatalysst -af stage4.spec\n# TODO: Error detection and mail notification\n\n### fscript is automatically executed by stage4.\n\n<\/code><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today I jotted down some fresh code for tarball automation. The needs of such automation are so simple it made sense to write it in bash. I thought I’d share it here. Suggestions are always welcome. #!\/bin\/sh ### PART 1: UPDATE SEED # Get text file describing latest stage3 tarball. # -O option circumvents wget… <\/p>\n