This project refers to CMiksche/gitea-auto-update to update Gitea with service on Windows.

Using project

1. Ensure 7-Zip is installed and add to %path%

   • this project will using 7-Zip to extract / compress file

     You can use 7z --help to check install status.

2. Ensure Python3 and requests are installed

   • 2.x are not supported

     You can use pip install requests to add module after install python3

3. Make a configuration file (*.json)

   see demo files in demo_config

   {
       "exe_path": "D:\\gitea\\gitea.exe",
       "service_name": "gitea",
       "log": "D:\\gitea\\update.log",
       "release_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/go-gitea/gitea/releases/latest",
       "check_mode": "site_api",
       "local_version": "https://127.0.0.1:3000/api/v1/version",
       "token": "abc123",
       "overwrite_mode": "backup",
       "backup_dir": "D:\\gitea\\backup"
   }

   • exe_path target .exe file to check and update
   • service_name the service name to start/stop
   • log (OPTION) the file to logging. Keep empty to disable logging.
   • release_url the GitHub API url that indicate latest release of Gitea
   • check_mode
     • cmd_call use 'gitea.exe -v' to check local version
     • site_api query local site API to check version
   • local_version local Gitea API url to check. (must exists when 'check_mode = site_api')
   • token header token to acceess Gitea API. (must exists when 'check_mode = site_api')
   • overwrite_mode how to update .exe
     • overwrite replace .exe directly
     • backup backup to .7z before update
   • backup_dir the directory to store backup 7z file. (must exists when 'overwrite_mode = backup')

4. Start check and update

   cd /d D:\gitea_win_upd
   python update.py --config=myConfig.json

   You can use Windows Scheduler to run it periodically.

5. Done