[Tor www-team] Seeking Bash Scripting Experience for a Setup Script

Wed May 21 15:35:36 UTC 2014

Hi William,

Fixed the issues & created a pull request. Some of the issues you are
mentioning are because of insufficient permissions (sudo) to add the cron
job.

Regards,

Remco

On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 5:53 AM, William Papper <william at papper.me> wrote:

> Hi Remco,
>
> Thank you! This is fantastic. Do you want to create a pull request? Feel
> free to add yourself to the "Who built this project?" section of the README
> also.
>
> I got a few errors when I ran the script (Ubuntu 14.04 LTS), but they seem
> rather small. The script still completed successfully, in any event. I've
> opened an issue on GitHub for that here:
> https://github.com/wpapper/tor-download-web/issues/60
>
> Using a template makes a lot of sense and seems like a very good solution.
> We could do the same for the fallback (for non-JS) links in index.html, too.
>
> Thanks again! This is great progress.
>
> Sincerely,
> Will Papper
>
>
> On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 11:38 AM, Remco <remco at verhoef.name> wrote:
>
>> Hi William,
>>
>> I've updated the script:
>>
>> curl
>> https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dutchcoders/tor-download-web/master/setup.sh |
>> sh
>>
>> You can install it using curl & executing it directly. (this is not per
>> se always safe, but is being used often for convenience)
>>
>> Only thing left (I believe) is updating the script files. We can do this
>> for example using a thank-you.js.template being seddet to thank-you.js.
>> This way it won't interfer with current downloads or broken links.
>>
>> Remco
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 8:47 PM, William Papper <william at papper.me>wrote:
>>
>>> I've moved the version numbers into a single variable (
>>> https://github.com/wpapper/tor-download-web/commit/e73c3cc0e5af4055692ed47c19baad9510dfa073),
>>> which should make the script much easier to work with. Does this help?
>>>
>>> Also, would it be possible for the script to run both git pull and
>>> rsync? That way, we can update the web page and the files at the same time.
>>>
>>> Thanks again!
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 12:39 PM, William Papper <william at papper.me>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Remco,
>>>>
>>>> Thank you for your work! This is great.
>>>>
>>>> You're correct about the updating. It should update the files
>>>> automatically through cron, even if we haven't updated the git repo.
>>>>
>>>> Relative paths are completely fine. My thinking was that the
>>>> torproject.org URLs in thank-you.js could be replaced with relative
>>>> paths using something like sed, but of course you can use whatever you'd
>>>> like.
>>>>
>>>> Could you expand on your version proposal? Are you marking the version
>>>> number in the HTML/JS? Instead, I could add a "version" variable to
>>>> thank-you.js (which would be used instead of "3.6.1" in wintbb, wintbbsig,
>>>> etc), so that only the variable and the paths need to be updated. Does that
>>>> seem like a good route to take?
>>>>
>>>> Sincerely,
>>>> Will Papper
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 12:28 PM, Remco <remco at verhoef.name> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi William,
>>>>>
>>>>> I've created a fork, and updated the script. It isn't completely
>>>>> working yet, but want to discuss the requirement of updating the js.
>>>>>
>>>>> https://github.com/dutchcoders/tor-download-web/blob/master/setup.sh
>>>>>
>>>>> If I understand correctly, you want the tor browser bundle to update
>>>>> individual compared to the tor download web? I'm having a little issue with
>>>>> updating the javascript file. Only way I can do this is by asking some
>>>>> questions when running the script, as what will be the url the downlad web
>>>>> will be running at. Other solution is to have relative paths in the
>>>>> download js, so we only have to update to the correct version. I propose to
>>>>> have some kind of tags (e.g. <!--VERSION--><!--ENDVERSION--> for showing
>>>>> version numbers in HTML, /*VERSION*//*ENDVERSION*/ for javascript, think
>>>>> this won't be necessary) for having actual versions updated.
>>>>>
>>>>> Any suggestions / additions?
>>>>>
>>>>> Otherwise I'll finish the script this way.
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>
>>>>> Remco
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 1:02 AM, William Papper <william at papper.me>wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Thank you, Remco.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> We're seeking to create a script which allows each instance of the
>>>>>> download site to be turned into a mirror. Ideally, someone can use git
>>>>>> clone, run setup.sh, and have a working download mirror fully configured.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> setup.sh should:
>>>>>> 1. Pull the contents of Tor’s website mirror (or even just
>>>>>> dist/torbrowser if possible, since that's all we need)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 2.Check the GPG keys to make sure that nothing has been modified
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 3. Move the download files into a mirror directory and update the
>>>>>> URLs found in thank-you.js
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 4. Ensure that the mirror and the git repo will auto update using
>>>>>> cron and will work across version numbers
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The current script in the repository has a rough sketch of what I was
>>>>>> going for.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks for your help! Open up a pull request whenever you're ready.
>>>>>> Feel free to ask us if you have any questions.
>>>>>> On May 16, 2014 2:56 AM, "Remco" <remco at verhoef.name> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I'm happy to help with the bash script. Just let me know what you
>>>>>>> exactly want.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Remco
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 5:51 AM, William Papper <william at papper.me>wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Do any of you have experience with Bash scripting for Linux/BSD? We
>>>>>>>> added a stub for a setup script to tor-download-web<https://github.com/wpapper/tor-download-web>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> . The script will allow the project to create a download mirror
>>>>>>>> from the contents of Tor's website mirror<https://www.torproject.org/docs/running-a-mirror.html.en>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> .
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> The current version of the script (with some pseudocode) is here<https://github.com/wpapper/tor-download-web/blob/master/setup.sh>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> , but it is quite basic since I have very little experience with
>>>>>>>> Bash scripting.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Would someone who knows Bash be willing to create the setup script?
>>>>>>>> This should be a very quick job for someone with experience, and it would
>>>>>>>> be incredibly helpful. Thanks for your help!
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Sincerely,
>>>>>>>> Will Papper
>>>>>>>>
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