Gist Git GitLab GitReleases Gitter History Mail PullRequest Report RunInfo Snippet
Chocolatey-AU plugins are configured using parameters passed in the HashTable contained in the Options under the key that is named by the plugin. So,$Options.xyz=@{...}
is a plugin if xyz.ps1
exists in a directory pointed to by the PluginPath
updateall option. The Chocolatey-AU will then run this script and pass it $Options.xyz
HashTable as plugin specific options. Chocolatey-AU comes with several integrated plugins that are described below.
Default update_all.ps1 uses environment variables to configure some options. If you use AppVeyor set those variables in the .appveyor.yml and to run it locally use update_vars.ps1.
Upload one or more files to gist.
To set up plugin to create gist under your user name you need to give it your gist id and authentication:
- Log into https://gist.github.com with the user you want to use.
- Create an empty gist (secret or not). Grab the id at the end of it -
https://gist.github.com/name/{id}
. Set it as$Env:gist_id
environment variable. - Create Github personal access token and make sure token has gist scope selected. Authenticating with username and password isn't supported for security reasons. Set it as
$Env:github_api_key
environment variable.
Persist modified files.
- To use it locally, just ensure
git push
doesn't require credentials and don't set any environment variables. - To use on build server such as [[AppVeyor]], specify
$Env:username
and$Env:password
. If you host git repository on Github its preferable to use personal access token. You can use the same token as with gist as long as public repo scope is activated.
Persist modified files.
- Same functionality as Git plugin, but tailored to HTTP(S) API-key pushes against a GitLab server.
- To use on build server such as [[AppVeyor]], specify
$Env:gitlab_user
,$Env:gitlab_apikey
, and$Env:gitlab_pushurl
. pushurl
must be a full HTTP(S) URL to the repo; the same one you would use to clone it. Internal plugin logic will use this to reconstruct a compatible URL.
Creates Github release for updated packages.
- It is recommended to add the following line
skip_tags: true
in theappveyor.yml
file to prevent tags from being built. While it may not be necessary, this is used to prevent packages from being submitted again when[Chocolatey-AU]
or[PUSH]
is being used in the commit header message.
Setup project to submit gitter status
- First of all, navigate to the gitter channel you wish to have the status listed (you'll need to have permission to add integrations, and need to do it through the webpage).
- Click on the icon for room settings, then select
Integrations
. - Select a
Custom
Integration - Copy the unique webhook url listed in the dialog.
- Update your appveyor environment variable with your unique webhook, and set the name to
gitter_webhook
. - Navigate to the
update_all.ps1
file in your repository, and update the$Options
hashtable with the followingGitter = @{ WebHookUrl = $env:gitter_webhook }
- Enjoy your status updates, or frown on failures.
- Click on the icon for room settings, then select
Create update history as markdown report using git log.
Shows one date per line and all of the packages pushed to the Chocolatey community repository during that day. First letter of the package name links to report (produced by Report plugin), the rest links to actuall commit (produced by the Git plugin).
This plugin requires Git plugin and that clone is done with adequate depth.
Send mail notifications on errors or always.
- If you use Google mail for error notifications on a build server such as AppVeyor, Google may block authentication from unknown device. To receive those emails enable less secure apps - see Allowing less secure apps to access your account.
- If you do not want to use your private email for this, create a new Google account and redirect its messages to your private one. This wont affect you if you run the scripts from your own machine from which you usually access the email.
Create GitHub pull request for the updated packages.
The plugin will open a GitHub pull request for the commits created by the Git plugin, which of course needs to run first. It has options to add assignees and reviewers to the created pull request and, supports on-prem GitHub Enterprise Server.
Create different types of reports about the current run.
The plugin saves state of all packages in a file that can be used locally or uploaded via other plugins to remote (such as Gist or Mail).
Report Types and associated Params:
- Markdown: - Markdown report with links
- Github_UserRepo - Use in generating the display name of the link to the package source. (Also used to generate the link address when PackageSourceRootUrl is not specified.)
- IconSize - Size of package icons. Defaults to 32.
- NoAppVeyor - Set to $true if not using AppVeyor.
- NoIcons - Set to $true to remove package icons.
- PackageSourceBranch - Used in generating link back to update_all script. Defaults to master.
- PackageSourceRootUrl - Use in generating links to the package source. Link addresses default to
https://github.com/<Github_UserRepo>
. - Title - Title for the report.
- UserMessage - Specify to add a message at the top of the report.
- Text: - Simple plain text report.
- Title - Title for the report.
- UserMessage - Specify to add a message at the top of the report.
Save run info to the file and exclude sensitive information.
Run this plugin as the last one to save all other info produced during the run in such way that it can be recreated as object.
To load it for inspection use $info = Import-CliXml update_info.xml
.
Upload update history report to GitLab snippet.
To set up plugin to create snippet under your user name you need to give it your snippet id and authentication:
- Log into https://gitlab.com/users/sign_in with the user you want to use.
- Create a snippet (private or not) with a title and some random content. Grab the id at the end of it -
https://gitlab.com/snippets/{id}
. Set it as$Env:snippet_id
environment variable. - Create GitLab personal access token and make sure token has api scope selected. Authenticating with username and password isn't supported for security reasons. Set it as
$Env:gitlab_api_token
environment variable.