linux/autoupdate-gitea.md

gitea update tool

Tool from https://github.com/CMiksche/gitea-auto-update or get local from https://git.bprieshof.nl/Tools/gitea-auto-update

requires python 3.7+

Install tool

ubuntu 18.04

add-apt-repository ppa:deadsnakes/ppa
apt install python3.7 python3-pip

python3.8 -m pip install gitea-auto-update

##debian 10,ubuntu 20.04

apt install python3-pip -y
pip3 install gitea-auto-update

Configuring

all os's

Add the following to /etc/gitea/auto-update.ini

[Gitea]
site=http://localhost:3000/api/v1/version
apiUrl=https://api.github.com/repos/go-gitea/gitea/releases/latest
system=linux-amd64
file=/usr/local/bin/gitea
tmpDir=/tmp/
buildFromSource=
sourceDir=
logFile=/var/log/gitupdate.log

Cron job

ubuntu 18.04

Add the following to /etc/crontab

0 5     * * 7   root   /usr/bin/python3.8 /usr/local/bin/gitea-auto-update --settings=/etc/gitea/auto-update.ini

debian 10,ubuntu 20.04

Add the following to /etc/crontab

0 5     * * 7   root    /usr/local/bin/gitea-auto-update --settings=/etc/gitea/auto-update.ini

Run manual update`

gitea-auto-update --settings=/etc/gitea/auto-update.ini