packaging: Set default release channel to stable for gh releases (#7399)

* packaging: Set default release channel to stable for gh releases

* Leave kickstart files alone

* Update .travis/create_artifacts.sh

Co-Authored-By: Konstantinos Natsakis <5933427+knatsakis@users.noreply.github.com>

Co-authored-by: Mansour Behabadi <mansour@oxplot.com>
Co-authored-by: Konstantinos Natsakis <5933427+knatsakis@users.noreply.github.com>

5 files changed, 17 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 8ca7169411..acb3565071 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -509,6 +509,8 @@ jobs:
     - name: Create release draft
       git:
         depth: false
+      env:
+        - RELEASE_CHANNEL=stable
       before_script: post_message "TRAVIS_MESSAGE" "Drafting release on github" "${NOTIF_CHANNEL}"
       script:
         - echo "GIT Branch:" && git branch
diff --git a/.travis/create_artifacts.sh b/.travis/create_artifacts.sh
index 8704811b69..ce764469f9 100755
--- a/.travis/create_artifacts.sh
+++ b/.travis/create_artifacts.sh
@@ -31,6 +31,13 @@ echo "--- Initialize git configuration ---"
 git checkout "${1-master}"
 git pull
 
+if [ "${RELEASE_CHANNEL}" == stable ]; then
+  echo "--- Set default release channel to stable ---"
+  sed -i 's/^RELEASE_CHANNEL="nightly" *#/RELEASE_CHANNEL="stable" #/' \
+    netdata-installer.sh \
+    packaging/makeself/install-or-update.sh
+fi
+
 # Everything from this directory will be uploaded to GCS
 mkdir -p artifacts
 BASENAME="netdata-$(git describe)"
diff --git a/netdata-installer.sh b/netdata-installer.sh
index 4e4f21cc6a..601549d049 100755
--- a/netdata-installer.sh
+++ b/netdata-installer.sh
@@ -155,6 +155,8 @@ USAGE: ${PROGRAM} [options]
   --auto-update or -u        Install netdata-updater in cron to update netdata automatically once per day
   --stable-channel           Use packages from GitHub release pages instead of GCS (nightly updates).
                              This results in less frequent updates.
+  --nightly-channel          Use most recent nightly udpates instead of GitHub releases.
+                             This results in more frequent updates.
   --disable-go               Disable installation of go.d.plugin.
   --enable-plugin-freeipmi   Enable the FreeIPMI plugin. Default: enable it when libipmimonitoring is available.
   --disable-plugin-freeipmi
@@ -202,7 +204,7 @@ AUTOUPDATE=0
 NETDATA_PREFIX=
 LIBS_ARE_HERE=0
 NETDATA_CONFIGURE_OPTIONS="${NETDATA_CONFIGURE_OPTIONS-}"
-RELEASE_CHANNEL="nightly"
+RELEASE_CHANNEL="nightly" # check .travis/create_artifacts.sh before modifying
 IS_NETDATA_STATIC_BINARY="${IS_NETDATA_STATIC_BINARY:-"no"}"
 while [ -n "${1}" ]; do
 	case "${1}" in
@@ -212,6 +214,7 @@ while [ -n "${1}" ]; do
 		"--dont-wait") DONOTWAIT=1;;
 		"--auto-update"|"-u") AUTOUPDATE=1;;
 		"--stable-channel") RELEASE_CHANNEL="stable";;
+		"--nightly-channel") RELEASE_CHANNEL="nightly";;
 		"--enable-plugin-freeipmi")  NETDATA_CONFIGURE_OPTIONS="${NETDATA_CONFIGURE_OPTIONS//--enable-plugin-freeipmi/} --enable-plugin-freeipmi";;
 		"--disable-plugin-freeipmi") NETDATA_CONFIGURE_OPTIONS="${NETDATA_CONFIGURE_OPTIONS//--disable-plugin-freeipmi/} --disable-plugin-freeipmi";;
 		"--disable-https") NETDATA_CONFIGURE_OPTIONS="${NETDATA_CONFIGURE_OPTIONS//--disable-https/} --disable-https";;
diff --git a/packaging/installer/README.md b/packaging/installer/README.md
index ffde6fc6b3..6805696702 100644
--- a/packaging/installer/README.md
+++ b/packaging/installer/README.md
@@ -65,6 +65,7 @@ The `kickstart.sh` script passes all its parameters to `netdata-installer.sh`, s
 -   `--dont-wait`: Enable automated installs by not prompting for permission to install any required packages.
 -   `--dont-start-it`: Prevent the installer from starting Netdata automatically.
 -   `--stable-channel`: Automatically update only on the release of new major versions.
+-   `--nightly-channel`: Automatically update on every new nightly build.
 -   `--no-updates`: Prevent automatic updates of any kind.
 -   `--local-files`: Used for offline installations. Pass four file paths: the Netdata tarball, the checksum file, the go.d plugin tarball, and the go.d plugin config tarball, to force kickstart run the process using those files.
 
diff --git a/packaging/makeself/install-or-update.sh b/packaging/makeself/install-or-update.sh
index afbe83530e..c287fd38c1 100755
--- a/packaging/makeself/install-or-update.sh
+++ b/packaging/makeself/install-or-update.sh
@@ -25,14 +25,16 @@ fi
 
 STARTIT=1
 AUTOUPDATE=0
-RELEASE_CHANNEL="nightly"
+RELEASE_CHANNEL="nightly" # check .travis/create_artifacts.sh before modifying
 
 while [ "${1}" ]; do
 	case "${1}" in
 		"--dont-start-it") STARTIT=0;;
 		"--auto-update"|"-u") AUTOUPDATE=1;;
 		"--stable-channel") RELEASE_CHANNEL="stable";;
+		"--nightly-channel") RELEASE_CHANNEL="nightly";;
 		"--disable-telemetry") DISABLE_TELEMETRY=1;;
+
 		*) echo >&2 "Unknown option '${1}'. Ignoring it.";;
 	esac
 	shift 1