Migrate make dist validation to GHA Workflows (#8373)

* Migrate make dist validation to GHA Workflows

* Refactor run_install_with_dist_file.sh

2 files changed, 67 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/.github/scripts/run_install_with_dist_file.sh b/.github/scripts/run_install_with_dist_file.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..519693f4db
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/scripts/run_install_with_dist_file.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+#
+# This script is evaluating netdata installation with the source from make dist
+#
+# Copyright: SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
+#
+# Author  : Pavlos Emm. Katsoulakis <paul@netdata.cloud)
+
+set -e
+
+if [ $# -ne 1 ]; then
+  printf >&2 "Usage: %s <dist_file>\n" "$(basename "$0")"
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+distfile="${1}"
+shift
+
+printf >&2 "Opening dist archive %s ... " "${distfile}"
+tar -xovf "${distfile}"
+distdir="$(echo "${distfile}" | cut -d. -f1,2,3)"
+if [ ! -d "${distdir}" ]; then
+  printf >&2 "ERROR: %s is not a directory" "${distdir}"
+  exit 2
+fi
+
+printf >&2 "Entering %s and starting docker run ..." "${distdir}"
+
+pushd "${distdir}" || exit 1
+docker run \
+  -v "${PWD}:/netdata" \
+  -w /netdata \
+  "netdata/os-test:centos7" \
+  /bin/bash -c "./netdata-installer.sh --dont-wait --install /tmp && echo \"Validating netdata instance is running\" && wget -O - 'http://127.0.0.1:19999/api/v1/info' | grep version"
+popd || exit 1
+
+echo "All Done!"
diff --git a/.github/workflows/checks.yml b/.github/workflows/checks.yml
index 6e379d12e3..1c2455e049 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/checks.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/checks.yml
@@ -37,3 +37,33 @@ jobs:
       - name: Compare generated Dashboard vs. Backed up Dashboard
         run: |
           diff -sNrdu /tmp/dashboard.js web/gui/dashboard.js
+  dist-checks:
+    name: Dist
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v2
+      - name: Prepare environment
+        run: |
+          ./packaging/installer/install-required-packages.sh --dont-wait --non-interactive netdata-all
+          sudo apt-get install -y libjson-c-dev libipmimonitoring-dev libcups2-dev libsnappy-dev \
+                                  libprotobuf-dev libprotoc-dev libssl-dev protobuf-compiler \
+                                  libnetfilter-acct-dev
+      - name: Configure
+        run: |
+          autoreconf -ivf
+          ./configure \
+            --with-zlib \
+            --with-math \
+            --with-user=netdata \
+            CFLAGS=-O2
+      - name: Make dist
+        run: |
+          make dist
+      - name: Verify & Set distfile
+        run: |
+          ls -lah netdata-*.tar.gz
+          echo "::set-env name=DISTFILE::$(ls netdata-*.tar.gz)"
+      - name: Run run_install_with_dist_file.sh
+        run: |
+          ./.github/scripts/run_install_with_dist_file.sh "${DISTFILE}"