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+# jclouds Development and Release Scripts
+
+This is a collection of scripts that aid in the development and release of jclouds itself.
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diff --git a/scripts/release/fetch_jclouds_rc.sh b/scripts/release/fetch_jclouds_rc.sh
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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.
+#
+
+# Usage examples:
+#
+# Verify a release candidate
+# $ ./fetch_jclouds_rc.sh 2.0.0 https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/jclouds /tmp
+
+VERSION=$1
+REPO=$2
+DL_DIR=$3
+
+for a in ${REPO}/org/apache/jclouds/jclouds/${VERSION}/jclouds-${VERSION}-source-release.tar.gz \
+    ${REPO}/org/apache/jclouds/labs/jclouds-labs/${VERSION}/jclouds-labs-${VERSION}-source-release.tar.gz \
+    ${REPO}/org/apache/jclouds/chef/jclouds-chef/${VERSION}/jclouds-chef-${VERSION}-source-release.tar.gz \
+    ${REPO}/org/apache/jclouds/jclouds-karaf/${VERSION}/jclouds-karaf-${VERSION}-source-release.tar.gz \
+    ${REPO}/org/apache/jclouds/cli/jclouds-cli/${VERSION}/jclouds-cli-${VERSION}-source-release.tar.gz \
+    ${REPO}/org/apache/jclouds/labs/jclouds-labs-openstack/${VERSION}/jclouds-labs-openstack-${VERSION}-source-release.tar.gz \
+    ${REPO}/org/apache/jclouds/labs/jclouds-labs-aws/${VERSION}/jclouds-labs-aws-${VERSION}-source-release.tar.gz \
+    ${REPO}/org/apache/jclouds/labs/jclouds-labs-google/${VERSION}/jclouds-labs-google-${VERSION}-source-release.tar.gz; do
+
+    wget -P ${DL_DIR} --no-check-certificate ${a}{,.asc,.md5,.sha1};
+
+done
diff --git a/scripts/release/verify_jclouds_rc.sh b/scripts/release/verify_jclouds_rc.sh
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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.
+#
+
+# Usage examples:
+#
+# Verify a release candidate
+# $ ./verify_jclouds_rc.sh 2.0.0-rc1
+
+set -ex
+
+RELEASE=$1
+
+if [ -e /sbin/md5 ]; then
+    MD5SUM="/sbin/md5 -q"
+else
+    MD5SUM=/usr/bin/md5sum
+fi
+
+if [ -e /sbin/sha1 ]; then
+    SHA1SUM=/sbin/sha1
+elif [ -e /usr/bin/shasum ]; then
+    SHA1SUM=/usr/bin/shasum
+else
+    SHA1SUM=/usr/bin/sha1sum
+fi
+
+curl http://www.apache.org/dist/jclouds/KEYS | gpg --import
+
+svn co https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/jclouds/$RELEASE
+
+cd $RELEASE
+
+for tarball in `ls *.tar.gz`; do
+    # Verify md5sum
+    diff -wB <($MD5SUM ${tarball} | perl -pe 's/(.*?)\s.*/$1/') <(cat ${tarball}.md5);
+    # Verify sha1sum
+    diff -wq <($SHA1SUM ${tarball}|perl -pe 's/(.*?)\s.*/$1/') <(cat ${tarball}.sha1);
+    # verify signature
+    gpg --verify ${tarball}.asc ${tarball};
+    # Untar
+    tar -xzf ${tarball};
+done
+
+for d in jclouds jclouds-labs jclouds-labs-openstack jclouds-labs-aws jclouds-labs-google jclouds-chef jclouds-karaf jclouds-cli; do
+    reldir=${d}-$(echo $RELEASE | perl -pe 's/(.*)-rc.*/$1/');
+    if [ -d "${reldir}" ]; then
+	cd ${reldir};
+	mvn clean install;
+	cd ..;
+    fi
+done