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-#!/bin/sh
-
-## 
-##    Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
-##    contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
-##    this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
-##    The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
-##    (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
-##    the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-## 
-##      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-## 
-##    Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-##    distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-##    WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-##    See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-##    limitations under the License.
-## 
-
-USERNAME=${1}
-VERSION=${2}
-SHA=${3}
-
-if [ -z "$USERNAME" -o -z "$VERSION" -o -z "$SHA" ]
-then
- echo "Usage: $0 <username> <version-number> <checksum> [temp-directory]"
- exit
-fi
-
-STAGING="http://people.apache.org/~$USERNAME/ocm/$VERSION/"
-
-WORKDIR=${4:-target/jackrabbit-ocm-staging-`date +%s`}
-mkdir $WORKDIR -p -v
-
-echo "[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------"
-echo "[INFO] DOWNLOAD STAGED REPOSITORY                                              "
-echo "[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------"
-echo "[INFO] "
-
-if [ `wget --help | grep "no-check-certificate" | wc -l` -eq 1 ]
-then
-  CHECK_SSL=--no-check-certificate
-fi
-
-wget $CHECK_SSL --wait 1 -nv -r -np "--reject=html,txt" -P "$WORKDIR" -nH "--cut-dirs=3" --ignore-length "${STAGING}"
-
-echo "[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------"
-echo "[INFO] CHECK SIGNATURES AND DIGESTS                                            "
-echo "[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------"
-echo "[INFO] "
-
-## 1. check sha from release email against src.zip.sha file
-
-downloaded_sha=$(cat `find $WORKDIR -type f | grep jackrabbit-ocm-$VERSION-source-release.zip.sha1`)
-if [ "$SHA" = "$downloaded_sha" ]; then echo "[INFO] Step 1. Release checksum matches provided checksum."; else echo "[ERROR] Step 1. Release checksum does not match provided checksum!"; fi
-echo "[INFO] "
-
-## 2. check signatures on the artifacts
-echo "[INFO] Step 2. Check individual files"
-
-for f in `find ${WORKDIR} -type f | grep '\.\(zip\|rar\|jar\|war\)$'`
-do
- echo "[INFO] $f"
- gpg --verify $f.asc 2>/dev/null
- if [ "$?" = "0" ]; then CHKSUM="GOOD"; else CHKSUM="BAD!!!!!!!!"; fi
- if [ ! -f "$f.asc" ]; then CHKSUM="----"; fi
- echo "gpg:  ${CHKSUM}"
-
- for hash in md5 sha1
- do
-   tp=`echo $hash | cut -c 1-3`
-   if [ ! -f "$f.$tp" ]
-   then
-     CHKSUM="----"
-   else
-     A="`cat $f.$tp 2>/dev/null`"
-     B="`openssl $hash < $f 2>/dev/null | sed 's/.*= *//' `"
-     if [ "$A" = "$B" ]; then CHKSUM="GOOD (`cat $f.$tp`)"; else CHKSUM="BAD!! : $A not equal to $B"; fi
-   fi
-   echo "$tp : ${CHKSUM}"
- done
-done
-
-## 3. check tag contents vs src archive contents
-echo "[INFO] "
-echo "[INFO] Step 3. Check SVN Tag for version $VERSION with src zip file contents"
-
-echo "[INFO] doing svn checkout, please wait..."
-SVNTAGDIR="$WORKDIR/tag-svn/jackrabbit-ocm-$VERSION"
-svn --quiet export http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/jackrabbit/commons/ocm/tags/jackrabbit-ocm-$VERSION $SVNTAGDIR
-
-echo "[INFO] unzipping src zip file, please wait..."
-ZIPTAG="$WORKDIR/tag-zip"
-unzip -q $WORKDIR/jackrabbit-ocm-$VERSION-source-release.zip -d $ZIPTAG
-ZIPTAGDIR="$ZIPTAG/jackrabbit-ocm-$VERSION"
-
-DIFFOUT=`diff -r $SVNTAGDIR $ZIPTAGDIR`
-if [ -n "$DIFFOUT" ]
-then
- echo "[ERROR] Found some differences!"
- echo "$DIFFOUT"
-else
- echo "[INFO] No differences found."
-fi
-
-## 4. run the build with the pedantic profile to have the rat licence check enabled
-
-echo "[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------"
-echo "[INFO] RUNNING MAVEN BUILD                                                     "
-echo "[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------"
-echo "[INFO] "
-
-cd "$ZIPTAGDIR"
-mvn package -Ppedantic
-