collaborationFactory/cplace-asc

Easy detection of version updates for jenkins

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Kaltenbach commented

Motivation: a cplace-asc installation on a build server needs of course to check for updates. This is now done with the help of grep, but would fail as soon the message changes.

Suggestion: implement a new command that allows a quiet version check that exits with

  1. 0 if no newer version is found
  2. maybe 2 if a newer version is found (1 is used as default error code if the build fails).
t-vince commented

There are some NPM default tools for that. It's not exactly the same, but may cover the same use-cases:

npm outdated -g @cplace/asc will check if a new version is available and if there is it will print out the new version. If no new version is available, it will print nothing.
Could be used as:

if [[ $(npm outdated -g @cplace/asc) ]]; then
    npm install -g @cplace/asc
fi

Alternatively, to get the latest version, you can do npm show @cplace/asc version and compare that with the current installed version cplace-cli --version

Or you could just run npm update -g @cplace/asc which will update to the latest version if a new version is available. (NPM version 2.6.1+ is required, but I'm assuming there is already a way newer version @ jenkins)

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Kaltenbach commented

Ah, very cool. IMHO this resolves this issue. Thank a lot.

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