azure-cli-extensions: refactor update script of auto-generated extensions

katexochen commented 1 month ago

Issue description

There are some shortcomings of the current implementation:

No SRI-hashes used (https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/341924#issuecomment-2351550017)
Commit script is really hacky, manual work still needed for correct commits
No auto-update (update bot) for single extensions
No auto-update for extensions packaged manually

Plan for a refactoring

Rewrite update script in Python (very sad to see my 100 line jq script go :smiling_face_with_tear:)
Implement SRI-Hash support
Store generated extensions as JSON: This will allow us easy updates of single packages as we can identify and access single elements of the set

In theory, we don't need the commit script anymore when the updates via update-bot work as expected. On the other hand it would still be nice to update the extensions when updating the CLI.

State of implementation

[x] Basic python rewrite that can update the generated extension set
[x] Replace commit script with native python
[ ] Command to use as update script for individual extensions
[ ] Command to print things needed for manually packaging a new extension
[ ] Update the README

@nbraud offered to do an initial implementation

cc @ulrikstrid as co-maintainer

ulrikstrid commented 1 month ago

I answered with a thumbs up, but I'm not sure how visible that is so I guess I'll give a written "approval" as well, I think this is a great idea :)

katexochen commented 1 month ago

@nbraud are you still planning to write a draft for this? Otherwise I'll try to find the time to do so.

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