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Automatic Self Update #19210

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idc77 opened this issue Mar 25, 2022 · 2 comments
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Automatic Self Update #19210

idc77 opened this issue Mar 25, 2022 · 2 comments
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type/feature Completely new functionality. Can only be merged if feature freeze is not active. type/proposal The new feature has not been accepted yet but needs to be discussed first.

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idc77 commented Mar 25, 2022 •
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Gitea should be able to update itself automatically to keep up with the latest, at least, security updates.

How should this work?
gitea is running and checking the latest release version. If higher than current:

  • download new binary for your platform
  • on Linux it is possible to overwrite the current binary while it's running, I'm not sure if that's possible on other platforms.
  • If not possible: write a little update daemon whos sole role is to check current release version, download new release, stop running systemd service, replace binary of old with new, restart systemd service.
  • if possible: replace current binary with new one. restart systemd service.

The idea is "install once, never worry about it again".

In the beginning this could work with pre-compiled binaries only, later this could be extended with building from source with a binary fallback.

This could be very easily implemented. Have a background timer running that checks the latest release on github every 24h.
https://docs.github.com/en/rest/reference/releases

If activity, wait for activity to complete and execute copy/restart.

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wxiaoguang commented Mar 25, 2022 •
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idc77 commented Apr 4, 2022

I'm talking a bit more sophisticated than a simple shell script.

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