This repository hosts the code used to generate wizards when using the installer feature of Packager.io.

The design is inspired from the debconf tool, used on debian-based systems, but works on all distributions supported by Packager.io (Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS, RHEL, Fedora, SUSE).

It is a simple collection of bash scripts used to iteratively launch the configure, preinstall, and postinstall steps of wizard addons.

Addons do what's needed to configure and install specific system depencies for the package that is currently being configured. For instance, a GitLab package may use an installer that depends on an apache2 and mysql wizard addons.

The installer provides shell functions that abstract the setting/retrieval of configuration entries, and also displays interactive questions to the user.

• CURRENT_ADDON: folder name of the current addon being executed.
• WIZ_RECONFIGURE: if set to yes, all questions will be asked, whether they have already been answered or not.
• INSTALLER_DEBUG: if set to yes, all debug messages will be output on STDERR.

Entry point of the installer wizard. Will call a state_machine function with the given argument (the starting "state"). The state_machine function must be defined in your addon, and must return 0 when the current state has been completed, as well as setting the next state to call using the global STATE environment variable.

Going back between states is automatically handled by the wizard function.

wizard "ask_for_db_info"

Asks all the questions in the queue, delegating to wiz_dialog for each type of question. Returns 1 if wiz_dialog fails (i.e. the user chooses to "Exit" the question, or goes back).

if wiz_ask ; then
  # proceed to next set of questions
else
  # ask previous set of questions
fi

Checks whether a given package already exists on the system. Handles .deb and .rpm based systems.

Returns 0 if the package is already installed. Returns 1 if the package does not exist.

if wiz_check_package "mysql-server" ; then
	# proceed with database creation
else
	apt-get install mysql-server -y
fi

Clears the buffer of questions to be asked. Mostly for internal use.

wiz_clear

Will output the given message on STDERR if INSTALLER_DEBUG is set to yes.

wiz_debug "some message here"

Triggers the display of a new dialog box for a specific question. Questions are defined in a templates file at the root of each addon. The user answer will be stored in the database using wiz_set.

Returns 0 if the user's answer has been correctly stored.
Returns non-zero code if the user chooses to exit or cancel.
Returns non-zero code if the dialog type is unknown.

Supports the following dialog types:

• select (menu)
• string (text field)
• password (password field)
• boolean (yes/no question)

wiz_dialog "mysql/db_host"

Returns facts about the underlying OS.

Supported facts:

• osfamily: returns the system's s family (debian, redhat, suse).

wiz_fact "osfamily" # => debian

Fetch the answer currently stored for a given question. Returns 0 if a value exists (including empty strings), and outputs it on STDOUT. Returns 1 if no value has been set yet.

if wiz_get "mysql/db_host" ; then
	db_host="$(wiz_get "mysql/db_host")"
	# do something with it
else
	# mysql/db_host is not set
fi

Fetch a question's property from the corresponding templates file. Outputs the result on STDOUT.

wiz_meta "mysql/db_host" "description" # => MySQL IP or hostname
wiz_meta "mysql/db_host" "default" # => 127.0.0.1
wiz_meta "mysql/db_host" "type" # => string

Adds a question to the buffer of questions to be asked. The question itself will be displayed to the user when wiz_ask is called.

A question will be displayed to the user if and only if:

• WIZ_RECONFIGURE is set to yes, or
• the question has not been answered yet, or
• the question has been marked as "unseen", using wiz_unseen method.

Generates a random password. Defaults to 32 characters long.

wiz_random_password 64 # => generates a 64 character random string

Sets a configuration variable in the database. Always suceeds, unless the database file is absent.

wiz_set "key" "value"

Returns the path to the current addon's templates file.

wiz_template # => mysql/templates

Manually sets the given question as unseen, meaning it will be displayed to the user even if it has already been answered.

wiz_unseen "mysql/db_host"

Helper function to join multiple strings, using a custom delimiter.

wiz_join ", " a b c d # => a, b, c, d

Helper function used to URL encode a given string.

wiz_urlencode "mysql://user:pass@host:port/dbname?hello=world"

• https://github.com/pkgr/addon-rails4 - General addon for Rails4 apps.
• https://github.com/pkgr/addon-mysql - Addon for configuring a MySQL server and database.
• https://github.com/pkgr/addon-smtp - Addon for configuring SMTP settings or sendmail.
• https://github.com/pkgr/addon-memcached - Addon for setting up a memcached server.
• https://github.com/pkgr/addon-apache2 - Addon for setting up an Apache2 server, including SSL.