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+#!/bin/bash
+############################################################################
+#
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+# or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+# distributed with this work for additional information
+# regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+# to you 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.
+#
+############################################################################
+set -e
+
+echo "Script that assembles all you need to make an RC."
+echo "It generates source tar in release directory"
+echo "Presumes that you can sign a release as described at https://www.apache.org/dev/release-signing.html"
+echo ""
+echo "Continuing will overwrite all uncommitted changes under the phoenix-queryserver repository."
+
+read -p "Y to continue or any other key to quit" prompt
+if [[ ! $prompt =~ [yY](es)* ]]
+then
+  echo "Aborting."
+  exit
+ fi
+
+echo "Starting...";sleep 2s
+
+# Set directory variables
+DIR_ROOT="$(cd $(dirname $0);pwd)/.."
+cd $DIR_ROOT
+
+VERSION=$(grep '^version = ".*"$' setup.py | grep -o '".*"' | sed 's/"//g')
+
+DIR_REL_BASE=$DIR_ROOT/release
+DIR_REL_ROOT=$DIR_REL_BASE/python-phoenixdb-$VERSION
+REL_SRC=python-phoenixdb-$VERSION-src
+DIR_REL_SRC_TAR_PATH=$DIR_REL_ROOT/src
+
+git clean -fx .
+
+# Generate src tar
+ln -s . $REL_SRC; tar cvzf $REL_SRC.tar.gz --exclude="$REL_SRC/$REL_SRC" $REL_SRC/*; rm $REL_SRC;
+
+# Generate directory structure
+mkdir $DIR_REL_BASE;
+mkdir $DIR_REL_ROOT;
+mkdir $DIR_REL_SRC_TAR_PATH;
+
+# Move src tar
+mv $REL_SRC.tar.gz $DIR_REL_SRC_TAR_PATH;
+
+echo "DONE generating  source tar in release directory."
+echo "Now signing source  tar"
+
+# Sign
+function_sign() {
+  phoenix_tar=$(find python-phoenixdb-*.gz);
+
+  # if on MAC OS
+  if [[ "$OSTYPE" == "darwin"* ]]; then
+    gpg --armor --output $phoenix_tar.asc --detach-sig $phoenix_tar;
+    openssl dgst -sha512 $phoenix_tar > $phoenix_tar.sha512;
+    openssl dgst -sha256 $phoenix_tar >> $phoenix_tar.sha256;
+  # all other OS
+  else
+    gpg --armor --output $phoenix_tar.asc --detach-sig $phoenix_tar;
+    sha512sum -b $phoenix_tar > $phoenix_tar.sha512;
+    sha256sum -b $phoenix_tar >> $phoenix_tar.sha256;
+  fi
+}
+
+cd $DIR_REL_SRC_TAR_PATH; function_sign;
+
+# Tag
+read -p "Do you want add tag for this RC in GIT? (Y for yes or any other key to continue)" prompt
+if [[ $prompt =~ [yY](es)* ]]
+then
+  echo "Tagging..."
+  read -p "Enter tag (Example python-phoenixdb-1.0.0.rc0):" prompt
+  echo "Setting tag: $prompt";sleep 5s
+  git tag -a $prompt -m "$prompt"; git push origin $prompt
+  mv $DIR_REL_ROOT $DIR_REL_BASE/$prompt
+fi
+
+echo "DONE."
+echo "If all looks good in release directory then commit RC at https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/phoenix/python-phoenixdb"