new script for mirror release upgrades

[sdetweil]

as we get more users, we see the same errors occurring after each quarterly upgrade…

i have started a script to do this for the users…

lets collaborate and get it working…

I’ll maintain a copy on my dropbox…
https://www.dropbox.com/s/71xtxr18si7cpnq/upgrade-script.sh?dl=0

right now it doesn’t DO the npm installs… (flag for that)
we need to determine which files are important on the git pull ( i use fetch/diff to get the list of changed files)
and what to do about them… reset hard or stash /stash pop after…

know that package.json, package-lock.json and custom.css are files of concern so far…

it find all modules which have a package.json, and goes into each and does npm install if the base npm install works…

we know that some modules are difficult , because their electron version must match the base…
how can we detect that and run electron-rebuild…

[dazza120]

Thanks for your hard work Sir 🤙🏾

[sdetweil]

@dazza120 my pleasure…

[sdetweil]

we know that each release WILL modify package.json (at least version number)

typically changes to package.json are because someone installed extra modules (npm install ??? will update the file)

[sdetweil]

and another question

I have 20 modules installed in the modules folder… but only 2 are active that have package.json files.

should we upgrade ALL of them? or only the active ones…(with disabled: false)

I suspect that most of the time, the list will be the same either way. mine is weird cause I help others with module problems by installing them myself (and don’t erase for a while)

one point to note here
to get JUST the enabled ones, we need to run a tiny javascript file, (so it will take two files)
otherwise we can do this all in bash

[sdetweil]

see my post containing link to the new script

https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/10859/new-upgrade-script-ready-for-testing