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+#!/usr/bin/env sh
+
+RELEASE_DIR=${HOME}/Releases
+GITHUB_USER=OpenConext
+PROJECT_NAME=OpenConext-profile
+
+if [ -z "$1" ]
+then
+
+cat << EOF
+Please specify the tag or branch to make a release of.
+
+Examples:
+
+    sh makeRelease.sh 0.1.0
+    sh makeRelease.sh master
+    sh makeRelease.sh develop
+
+If you want to GPG sign the release, you can specify the "sign" parameter, this will
+invoke the gpg command line tool to sign it.
+
+   sh makeRelease 0.1.0 sign
+
+EOF
+exit 1
+else
+    TAG=$1
+fi
+
+PROJECT_DIR_NAME=${PROJECT_NAME}-${TAG//\//_} &&
+PROJECT_DIR=${RELEASE_DIR}/${PROJECT_DIR_NAME} &&
+SYMFONY_ENV=prod
+
+echo "Preparing environment" &&
+mkdir -p ${RELEASE_DIR} &&
+rm -rf ${PROJECT_DIR} &&
+
+echo "Cloning repository";
+cd ${RELEASE_DIR} &&
+git clone https://github.com/${GITHUB_USER}/${PROJECT_NAME}.git ${PROJECT_DIR_NAME} &&
+
+echo "Checking out ${TAG}" &&
+cd ${PROJECT_DIR} &&
+git checkout ${TAG} &&
+
+echo "Running Composer Install";
+SYMFONY_ENV=${SYMFONY_ENV} composer install  -n --prefer-dist -o --ignore-platform-reqs --no-dev &&
+SYMFONY_ENV=${SYMFONY_ENV} composer run-script symfony-scripts &&
+
+echo "Link and install assets";
+bin/console assets:install &&
+
+echo "Running NPM install";
+npm i --production &&
+npm run build &&
+
+echo "Tagging the release in RELEASE file" &&
+COMMITHASH=`git rev-parse HEAD` &&
+echo "Tag: ${TAG}" > ${PROJECT_DIR}/RELEASE &&
+echo "Commit: ${COMMITHASH}" >> ${PROJECT_DIR}/RELEASE &&
+
+echo "Cleaning build of dev files" &&
+rm -f ${PROJECT_DIR}/.docheader &&
+rm -f ${PROJECT_DIR}/.env.* &&
+rm -f ${PROJECT_DIR}/.gitignore &&
+rm -f ${PROJECT_DIR}/.scrutinizer.yml &&
+rm -f ${PROJECT_DIR}/docker-compose.yml &&
+rm -f ${PROJECT_DIR}/makeRelease.sh &&
+rm -f ${PROJECT_DIR}/package.json &&
+rm -f ${PROJECT_DIR}/package-lock.json &&
+rm -f ${PROJECT_DIR}/phpcs.xml &&
+rm -f ${PROJECT_DIR}/phpunit.xml &&
+rm -f ${PROJECT_DIR}/phpmd.xml &&
+rm -f ${PROJECT_DIR}/postcss.config.js &&
+rm -f ${PROJECT_DIR}/symfony.lock &&
+rm -f ${PROJECT_DIR}/webpack.config.js &&
+rm -rf ${PROJECT_DIR}/.github &&
+rm -rf ${PROJECT_DIR}/.git &&
+rm -rf ${PROJECT_DIR}/ci &&
+rm -rf ${PROJECT_DIR}/assets &&
+rm -f ${PROJECT_DIR}/bin/extract-translations.sh &&
+rm -rf ${PROJECT_DIR}/config/packages/dev &&
+rm -rf ${PROJECT_DIR}/config/packages/test &&
+rm -rf ${PROJECT_DIR}/cypress &&
+rm -rf ${PROJECT_DIR}/docker &&
+rm -rf ${PROJECT_DIR}/node_modules &&
+rm -rf ${PROJECT_DIR}/tests &&
+
+echo "Removing application cache, logs, bootstrap and parameters" &&
+rm -rf ${PROJECT_DIR}/var/cache/* &&
+rm -rf ${PROJECT_DIR}/var/logs/* &&
+
+echo "Create tarball" &&
+cd ${RELEASE_DIR} &&
+tar -czf ${PROJECT_DIR_NAME}.tar.gz ${PROJECT_DIR_NAME}
+
+echo "Create checksum file" &&
+cd ${RELEASE_DIR} &&
+if hash sha1sum 2>/dev/null; then
+    sha1sum ${PROJECT_DIR_NAME}.tar.gz > ${PROJECT_DIR_NAME}.sha
+else
+    shasum ${PROJECT_DIR_NAME}.tar.gz > ${PROJECT_DIR_NAME}.sha
+fi
+
+if [ -n "$2" ]
+then
+	if [ "$2" == "sign" ]
+	then
+	    echo "Signing build"
+		cd ${RELEASE_DIR}
+		gpg -o ${PROJECT_DIR_NAME}.sha.gpg  --clearsign ${PROJECT_DIR_NAME}.sha
+	fi
+fi