Gitea Auto Update

Script for a automatic update of gitea. Should be run locally on the gitea server. Has options for updating via new binary file or build from source.

Procedure

• Get Gitea Version from the Gitea CLI and if that fails from the Gitea API
• Get latest Release via GitHub API
• Check if there is a newer Version
• If there is a newer Version:
  • If binary file was selected:
    • Download new version
    • Check sha256
    • Overwrite old version
  • If build from source is active:
    • Checkout new release branch
    • Build binary
    • Overwrite old binary

General Information

License: GNU General Public License

Author: Christoph Daniel Miksche (m5e.de)

Uses python version 3

Installation

Create a settings.ini file on your system. Example:

[Gitea]
site=https://your-gitea-instance.com/api/v1/version
apiUrl=https://api.github.com/repos/go-gitea/gitea/releases/latest
system=linux-amd64
file=/usr/local/bin/gitea
tmpDir=/tmp/
buildFromSource=
sourceDir=
logFile=update.log

Use the following command to install gitea-auto-update.

sudo pip3 install gitea-auto-update

Enter the command gite-auto-update --settings=/path/to/settings.ini in your commandline.

If you want to schedule your updates, edit your /etc/crontab file.

Tutorials

• English: http://blog.m5e.de/gitea/update/upgrade/bash/script/2018/11/26/gitea-auto-update-script.html
• German: https://blog.wronnay.net/automatische-gitea-updates/

Development

The following instructions help you for developing.

• Check out the Contribution Guidelines.
• Clone this git repo
• Install pipenv: pip install pipenv
• Install all dependencies: pipenv install
• Install git pre-commit hooks (for pylint and gitlint) with pre-commit install
• You can run the tests with python -m unittest
• After pushing, you should check the build status which currently checks the tests, pylint and the commit message format.

Notes

The following steps are automatically executed via pre-commit hooks.

• You can run pylint with pylint gitea_auto_update
• After changes and commit, you can check if your commit message follows the contribution guidelines with gitlint. If there is a problem, gitlint will show you a error message.

Contributors

• @Eideen
• @iwalton3

Thank you for your support!

Interested in contributing to this project? Check out the Contribution Guidelines.