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-#!/bin/sh
-# 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.
-
-# Setting the script to fail if anything goes wrong
-set -e
-
-#This is a script to help with the release process
-
-
-error () {
-   echo ""
-   echo "$@"
-   echo ""
-   echo "Usage: ./prepare-release.sh repo-url version [target-dir (defaults to version, must not exist)]"
-   echo ""
-   echo "example:"
-   echo "./prepare-release.sh https://repo1.maven.org/maven2 5.15.0"
-   echo ""
-   exit 64
-}
-
-doDownload () {
-
-  repoPath="$1"
-  theFile="$2"
-  completeURL="$repoPath/$theFile"
-
-  echo
-  echo $theFile
-
-  echo "Downloading $completeURL"
-  curl $completeURL > $theFile
-
-  echo "Downloading $theFile.asc"
-  curl $completeURL.asc > $theFile.asc
-
-  echo "Downloading $theFile.md5"
-  curl $completeURL.md5 > $theFile.md5
-
-  echo "Verifying signature $theFile.asc"
-  gpg --verify $theFile.asc
-
-  echo "Augmenting $theFile.md5 with filename details"
-  echo "  $theFile" >> $theFile.md5
-
-  echo "Generating SHA512 checksum file $theFile.sha512"
-  sha512sum $theFile > $theFile.sha512
-}
-
-if [ "$#" -lt 2 ]; then
-  error "Cannot match arguments"
-fi
-
-release=$2
-target=${3-$2}
-echo "Target Directory: $target"
-
-if [ -d $target ]; then
-  error "Directory $target already exists, stopping"
-else
-  echo "Directory $target does not exist, creating"
-  mkdir $target
-  cd $target
-fi
-
-binRepoURL="$1/org/apache/activemq/apache-activemq/$2"
-srcRepoURL="$1/org/apache/activemq/activemq-parent/$2"
-
-doDownload $srcRepoURL activemq-parent-$release-source-release.zip 
-doDownload $binRepoURL apache-activemq-$release-bin.zip
-doDownload $binRepoURL apache-activemq-$release-bin.tar.gz
-
-echo ""
-echo "--- Download Complete for Release $2 Artifacts are in $target---"
-echo ""
-echo "Validating all MD5 checksum files"
-md5sum -c *.md5
-
-echo "Validating all SHA512 checksum files"
-sha512sum -c *.sha512
-
-