update and unified goreleaser setup.

.github/workflows/go.yml → .github/workflows/gorelease.yml

@@ -4,31 +4,33 @@
 name: GoReleaser
 
 on:
-  pull_request:
   push:
     tags:
-      - "*"
+      - "*" # run on new tags
+
+permissions:
+  contents: write
 
 jobs:
   goreleaser:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
     steps:
-      - name: Checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - name: Checkout # required for the changelog to work correctly
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
         with:
           fetch-depth: 0
-      - name: Git fetch
-        run: git fetch --force --tags
+
       - name: Setup Go with cache
-        uses: actions/setup-go@v3
+        uses: actions/setup-go@v5
         with:
-          go-version: '>=1.19.5'
+          go-version: ">=1.22.3"
           cache: true
-      - name: GoReleaser run
-        uses: goreleaser/goreleaser-action@v4
+
+      - name: Run GoReleaser
+        uses: goreleaser/goreleaser-action@v6
         with:
           distribution: goreleaser
           version: latest
-          args: release --rm-dist
+          args: release --clean
         env:
           GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

docs/todo.md

@@ -26,3 +26,4 @@
 ### Backend
 
 - [ ] *? Implememnt a [scheduling library for Go](https://github.com/reugn/go-quartz)
+- [ ] [xstrings](https://github.com/huandu/xstrings) for string manipulation.

init/.goreleaser.yaml

@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 # .goreleaser-release.yaml
 #
-# The GoReleaser configuration for rgw Defacto2 server.
-#
-# This goreleaser file is intended for the included docker-compose.yml file
-# to generate a release build of the server for Linux.
+# The GoReleaser configuration for the Defacto2 server.
+# GoReleaser is a release automation tool for Go projects and this file is
+# is intended for use with a GitHub Actions workflow to generate a release build
+# when a new tag is created.
 #
 # The configuration documentation is at https://goreleaser.com.
 #
@@ -15,32 +15,63 @@
 project_name: df2-server
 before:
   hooks:
-    # You may remove this if you don't use go modules.
     - go mod tidy
 builds:
   - id: server
     main: server.go
     env:
       - CGO_ENABLED=0
     targets:
+      # keep the number of targets to a minimum to improve the build time.
       - linux_amd64
 archives:
-  - format: zip
+  - format: zip # create a zip archive for simplicity
     name_template: >-
-      {{ tolower .ProjectName }}_{{ .Version }}_{{- tolower .Os }}
+      {{ tolower .ProjectName }}_{{- tolower .Os }}
     files:
       - src: public/text/defacto2.txt
-        strip_parent: true
+        dst: defacto2.txt
+        info:
+          mtime: "{{ .CommitDate }}"
+          mode: 0644 # rw-r--r--
+      - src: init/defacto2.service
+        dst: defacto2.service
+        info:
+          mtime: "{{ .CommitDate }}"
+          mode: 0644 # rw-r--r--
+      - src: init/example.env.local
+        dst: example.env
+        info:
+          mtime: "{{ .CommitDate }}"
+          mode: 0644 # rw-r--r--
+nfpms:
+  - id: deb # create a .deb package for use with dpkg
+    builds: ["server"]
+    package_name: df2-server
+    file_name_template: "{{ .ConventionalFileName }}"
+    vendor: Defacto2
+    homepage: https://github.com/Defacto2/server
+    maintainer: Ben Garrett <[email protected]>
+    description: |-
+      Defacto2 web server installer package.
+    license: GPL-3.0
+    formats:
+      - deb
+    dependencies:
+      - git
+    recommends:
+      - caddy
+      - postgresql
 checksum:
-  name_template: "checksums.txt"
+  name_template: "{{ .ProjectName }}_{{ .Version }}_checksums.txt"
 snapshot:
   name_template: "{{ incpatch .Version }}-next"
+signs:
+  - artifacts: checksum
 changelog:
   sort: asc
   filters:
     exclude:
       - "^docs:"
       - "^test:"
       - "^tmp:"
-      - ".env.local"
-      - ".env"