[squid-dev] Want to integrate squid github to Jenkins CI

[Amos Jeffries]

On 22/01/20 5:30 pm, Justin Michael Schwartzbeck wrote:
> Hi Amos, thanks for replying.
> 
> So I guess maybe I need to narrow this down a little bit more. Is there
> some programmatic way that I can get the *latest stable release*
> *version* and *source download link*?
> Right now I can do this by navigating to the downloads page:
> http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/
> 
> Scroll to "Stable Versions" under source code packages, and see that
> 4.10 is the latest, along with a link.
> I guess I could write a script to parse the HTML on that page and find
> this information, but that is rather clunky, and if the page format ever
> changes then my script will be broken. Is there another way that you are
> aware of?

There are several ways.

1) You can fetch the FTP directory listing from
<ftp://ftp.squid-cache.org/pub/squid/>


2) You can fetch the checksums file from that directory
<ftp://ftp.squid-cache.org/pub/squid/sha1s.txt> and process it rather
than the directory listing. This is sometimes easier for HTTP mirrors of
the FTP service.


Those contain only the latest 2 releases from each series. This way you
can track when we change stable series - though manual review is advised
at the changeover, so you may want to make that part just a notice for
attention rather than an auto-build.


Any permanent URLs you need linking back to the website for HTTP
download, docs, or FTP archive (all released tarballs) can be
synthesized from the version number.


Amos