README.md

@@ -5,61 +5,31 @@ Based on the Masters Book of Serious Sysadmin's Best Practices Chapter, this scr
 ## Crash course
 
 ```
-wget https://git.interhacker.space/alban/changelog/raw/branch/master/changelog.sh
+wget https://this.repo.srs.ly/alban/changelog/bla/bla/raw/changelog
 chmod +x changelog
-sudo -E ./changelog
+sudo ./changelog
 ```
 
-## How it works
-
 The script will ask for your name if no `CHANGELOG_USERNAME` environment variable is found.
 
-Then it will ask for change informations:
+Then it will ask for a first change informations:
 
 * The nature of the change: which software / domain did you change? Why?
 * Some comments: How did you do it? What was happening? Is it fixed?
 
-You can then add multiple lines for a single change as well as multiple changes for a changelog entry (ex: deploy a new service and remove old packages).
-
-This changelog entry is now inserted on top of the /etc/changelog file, which is created with a default entry if not present yet.
-
 **Limitations**
 
 * Please note that to enter multiline comments, you have for now to escape newline characters using the `\\\\n` sequence. Ugly. 
 
 * By default, it will attempt to create and edit `/etc/changelog`. You better be running it as root, by default.
 
-## Plugins and config
 
-You can add plugins to hook actions at two points in time. The `plugins-available` directory contains two working examples of these hooks.
+# Possible improvements
 
-* adding a changelog entry lines. Example `content-hastebin.sh` plugin pushes a file content to a pastebin service
+* Enable a sudo requirement / ways to restart oneself as a root user
-* saving the changelog. Example `output-changelog-server.sh` plugin pushes a changelog to a remote central server
+* Enable simple multiline comments
-
+* Provide a way to attach files
-You can activate the plugins by placing/linking them in the `plugins-enabled` directory.
+* Provide a way (plugins?) to report each change to a central server
-
-The plugins might need some configuration variables.
-
-Do `mv config.sample.sh config.sh` and edit the file to suit your needs.
-
-
-
-## Baking a fat exec
-
-While providing a mean to run plugins is cool, it's not very efficient at deployment time.
-
-Run `build.sh` to get a single exec, ready for shipping, embedding:
-
-* your config.sh file
-* all the plugins you added to plugins-enabled
-
-## Possible improvements
-
-* [x] Enable a sudo requirement / ways to restart oneself as a root user
-* [] Enable simple multiline comments
-* [x] Provide a way to attach files
-* [x] Provide a way (plugins?) to report each change to a central server
-* [x] Provide a build system to cook config and plugins in a single exec
 
 
 

changelog.sh

@@ -1,23 +1,21 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 #Manages an /etc/changelog
 
+# %CONFIG% This comment is used to build custom scripts 
 
-echo ${BASH_SOURCE[@]}
+CHANGELOG=/etc/changelog
-APP_PATH=$( cd $(dirname ${BASH_SOURCE[0]}) && pwd )
-APP_NAME=$( basename ${BASH_SOURCE[0]})
 
 [[ -w /etc/changelog ]] || {
     echo -e "\nYou cannot write to $CHANGELOG... This doesn't look serious!\n"
     read -e -i y -n 1 -p "Run as sudo [Yn]? : " 
-    [[ "Y" == ${REPLY^} ]] && sudo -E "$APP_PATH/$APP_NAME" && exit 0
+    [[ "Y" == ${REPLY^} ]] && sudo -E $0
+    exit 0
 }
 
 
-CHANGELOG=/etc/changelog
-# %CONFIG% This comment is used to build custom scripts 
-[[ -f "$APP_PATH/config.sh" ]] && source "$APP_PATH/config.sh"
 
 # functions 
+
 msg(){ echo -e "$@"; }
 panic(){ msg "${@} Exiting."; exit 1;}
 ENTRY_FILE=$(mktemp)
@@ -87,7 +85,7 @@ PLUGIN_OUTPUT+=("hookOutputFile")
 declare -a PLUGIN_OUTPUT_MENU
 
 # %PLUGIN% This comment is used to build custom scripts 
-[[ -d "$APP_PATH/plugins-enabled" ]] && [[ -n "$APP_PATH/plugins-enabled/*" ]] && source "$APP_PATH"/plugins-enabled/*
+[[ -d "plugins-enabled" ]] && [[ -n "plugins-enabled/*" ]] && source plugins-enabled/*
 
 for (( i = 0; i < ${#PLUGIN_OUTPUT[@]} ; i++ )); do 
   TXT=$( ${PLUGIN_OUTPUT[$i]} )

config.sample.sh

@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-CHANGELOG_SERVER=https://changelog.example.com
-CHANGELOG_AUTH_KEY=your-shared-secret
-HASTEBIN_SERVER=https://hastebin.com