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+#! /usr/bin/env bash
+
+#   COPYRIGHT NOTICE STARTS HERE
+#
+#   Copyright 2018 © Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
+#
+#   Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+#   you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+#   You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+#   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+#   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+#   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+#   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+#   limitations under the License.
+#
+#   COPYRIGHT NOTICE ENDS HERE
+
+
+# Scope of this packaging script is to generate tarfiles for offline installation
+# Build of any additional artifacts is out of scope for this script
+
+crash () {
+    local exit_code="$1"
+    local cause="$2"
+    echo "Packaging script finished prematuraly"
+    echo "Cause: $2"
+    exit "${exit_code}"
+}
+
+usage () {
+    echo "Usage:"
+    echo "   ./$(basename $0) <project_name> <version>  <packaging_target_dir>"
+    echo "Example: ./$(basename $0) onap-me 1.0.1  /tmp/package_onap-me_1.0.0"
+    echo "packaging_target_dir will be created if does not exist. All tars will be produced into it."
+}
+
+function create_tar {
+    local tar_dir="$1"
+    local tar_name="$2"
+
+    cd ${tar_dir}
+    touch ${tar_name} # Trick to avoid sporadic "tar: .: file changed as we read it" warning message
+    tar --exclude=${tar_name} -cf ../${tar_name} .
+    cd - &> /dev/null # Trick to avoid printing new dir on stdout
+
+    # Remove packaged folders
+    find ${tar_dir}/* -maxdepth 0 -type d -exec rm -rf '{}' \;
+    # Remove packaged files
+    find ${tar_dir}/* ! -name ${tar_name} -exec rm '{}' \;
+    echo "tar file ${tar_name} created in target dir"
+}
+
+function add_metadata {
+    local metafile="$1"
+
+    echo "Project name: ${PROJECT_NAME}" >> "${metafile}"
+    echo "Project version: ${PROJECT_VERSION}" >> "${metafile}"
+    echo "Package date: ${TIMESTAMP}" >> "${metafile}"
+}
+
+function add_additions {
+    local source="$1"
+    local target="$2"
+
+    if [ -d "${source}" ]; then
+        mkdir -p "${target}/$(basename $source)"
+        cp -r "${source}" "${target}"
+        echo "Adding directory  ... $(basename $source)"
+    else
+        if [ -f "${source}" ]; then
+             cp "${source}" "${target}"
+             echo "Adding file       ... $(basename $source)"
+        else
+             crash 4 "Invalid source specified for packaging: $1"
+        fi
+    fi
+}
+
+function create_sw_package {
+    local pkg_root="${PACKAGING_TARGET_DIR}/onap"
+
+    # Create tar package
+    echo "[Creating software package]"
+
+    # Create directory structure of the sw package
+    mkdir -p "${pkg_root}"
+    cp -r ansible "${pkg_root}"
+
+    # Add additional files/dirs into package based on package.conf
+    for item in "${SW_PACKAGE_ADDONS[@]}";do
+        # all SW package addons are expected within ./ansible/application folder
+        add_additions "${item}" "${pkg_root}/ansible/application"
+    done
+
+    # Helm charts handling
+    echo "Helm charts handling"
+    # Copy charts available for ansible playbook to use/move them to target server/dir
+    mkdir -p "${pkg_root}"/ansible/application/helm_charts
+    cp -r "${HELM_CHARTS_DIR}"/* "${pkg_root}"/ansible/application/helm_charts
+
+    # Add metadata to the package
+    add_metadata "${pkg_root}"/package.info
+
+    # Create sw tar package
+    echo "Creating tar file ..."
+    PACKAGE_BASE_NAME="${SOFTWARE_PACKAGE_BASENAME}"
+    create_tar "${pkg_root}" ${PACKAGE_BASE_NAME}-${PROJECT_NAME}-${PROJECT_VERSION}-sw.tar
+    rm -rf "${pkg_root}"
+}
+
+function create_resource_package {
+    local pkg_root="${PACKAGING_TARGET_DIR}/resources"
+
+    # Create resource tar package
+    echo "[Creating resource package]"
+
+    # Create directory structure of the resource package
+    mkdir -p "${pkg_root}"
+
+    # Add artifacts into resource packagee based on package.conf config
+    for item in "${EXTERNAL_BINARIES_PACKAGE_ADDONS[@]}";do
+        if [ "$(basename $item)" == "resources" ]; then
+            echo "Note: Packaging all resources at once"
+            add_additions "${item}" "${PACKAGING_TARGET_DIR}"
+        else
+            add_additions "${item}" "${pkg_root}"
+        fi
+    done
+
+    # tar file with nexus_data is expected, we should find and untar it
+    # before resource.tar is created
+    for i in `ls -1 ${pkg_root} | grep tar`; do
+    tar tvf "${pkg_root}/${i}" | grep nexus_data &> /dev/null
+    if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
+        echo "Debug: tar file with nexus blobs detected ${pkg_root}/${i}. Start unarchive ..."
+        tar xf "${pkg_root}/${i}" -C "${pkg_root}" &> /dev/null
+        echo "Debug: unarchive finished. Removing original file"
+        rm -f "${pkg_root}/${i}"
+    fi
+    done
+
+    echo "Creating tar file ..."
+    PACKAGE_BASE_NAME="${SOFTWARE_PACKAGE_BASENAME}"
+    create_tar "${pkg_root}" "${PACKAGE_BASE_NAME}-${PROJECT_NAME}-${PROJECT_VERSION}-resources.tar"
+    rm -rf "${pkg_root}"
+}
+
+function create_aux_package {
+    local pkg_root="${PACKAGING_TARGET_DIR}/aux"
+
+    # Create aux resource tar package
+    echo "Creating aux resource package"
+
+    # Create directory structure of the aux resource package
+    mkdir -p "${pkg_root}"
+
+    # Add artifacts into resource packagee based on package.conf config
+    for item in "${AUX_BINARIES_PACKAGE_ADDONS[@]}";do
+        add_additions "${item}" "${pkg_root}"
+    done
+
+    echo "Creating tar file ..."
+    PACKAGE_BASE_NAME="${SOFTWARE_PACKAGE_BASENAME}"
+    create_tar "${pkg_root}" "${PACKAGE_BASE_NAME}-${PROJECT_NAME}-${PROJECT_VERSION}-aux-resources.tar"
+    rm -rf "${pkg_root}"
+}
+
+#
+# =================== Main ===================
+#
+
+PROJECT_NAME="$1"
+PROJECT_VERSION="$2"
+PACKAGING_TARGET_DIR="$3"
+
+TIMESTAMP=$(date -u +%Y%m%dT%H%M%S)
+
+# ensure that package.conf is sourced even when package.sh executed from another place
+SCRIPT_DIR=$(dirname "${0}")
+LOCAL_PATH=$(readlink -f "$SCRIPT_DIR")
+
+# lets start from script directory as some path in script are relative
+pushd "${LOCAL_PATH}"
+source ./package.conf
+
+
+if [ "$#" -lt 3 ]; then
+    echo "Missing some mandatory parameter!"
+    usage
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+if [ ! -f "./package.conf" ]; then
+    crash 2 "Mandatory config file ./package.conf missing!"
+fi
+
+# checking bash capability of parsing arrays
+whotest[0]='test' || (crash 3 "Arrays not supported in this version of bash.")
+
+
+# Prepare output directory for our packaging and create all tars
+
+rm -rf ${PACKAGING_TARGET_DIR}
+create_sw_package
+create_resource_package
+
+# This part will create aux package which consists of
+# artifacts which can be added into offline nexus during runtime
+if [ "${PREPARE_AUX_PACKAGE}" == "true" ]; then
+    create_aux_package
+else
+    echo "AUX package won't be created"
+fi
+
+popd