Added new gitlab-ci stage for automatically creating the AppImages

.gitlab-ci.yml

@@ -118,6 +118,7 @@ stages:
   - reggie_weekly
   - documentation
   - deploy
+  - appimage
 
 # ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Templates ("hidden jobs")
@@ -1086,4 +1087,43 @@ github:
     - git clone -b master --single-branch [email protected]:piclas/piclas.git piclas_github ;
     - cd piclas_github ;
     - git remote add piclas-framework [email protected]:piclas-framework/piclas.git ;
-    - git push --force --follow-tags piclas-framework master ;
+    - git push --force --follow-tags piclas-framework master ;
+
+# ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Stage "appimage": Push the CI_COMMIT_REF_NAME branch to github to invoke creating the AppImages
+# ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+github_create_appimage:
+  stage: appimage
+  tags:
+    - withmodules-concurrent
+  rules:
+    - if: '$DO_CREATE_APPIMAGE'
+  script:
+    - if [ -z "${DO_CREATE_APPIMAGE}" ]; then exit; fi
+    - rm -rf piclas-testing || true ;
+    - if [ -z "${CI_COMMIT_REF_NAME}" ]; then echo "CI_COMMIT_REF_NAME is empty"; exit; else echo "Cloning ${CI_COMMIT_REF_NAME}"; fi
+    - git clone -b ${CI_COMMIT_REF_NAME} --single-branch [email protected]:piclas/piclas.git piclas-testing
+    - cd piclas-testing
+    - git remote add piclas-testing [email protected]:scopplestone/piclas-testing.git
+    - git push --force piclas-testing ${CI_COMMIT_REF_NAME}
+
+# ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Stage "appimage": Download the AppImages from the piclas-testing repository and test them
+# ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+github_test_appimage:
+  stage: appimage
+  tags:
+    - withmodules-concurrent
+  rules:
+    - if: '$DO_TEST_APPIMAGE'
+  script:
+    - if [ -z "${DO_TEST_APPIMAGE}" ]; then exit; fi
+    - export PATH="/var/lib/gitlab-runner/.local/bin:$PATH"
+    - module purge || true;
+    - module load  cmake/3.26.4  gcc/13.2.0  openmpi/4.1.5/gcc/13.2.0      hdf5/1.14.0/gcc/13.2.0/openmpi/4.1.5      hopr/master/gcc/13.2.0/openmpi/4.1.5/hdf5/1.14.0      petsc/3.19.3/gcc/13.2.0/openmpi/4.1.5 || true;
+    - rm -rf piclas-testing || true ;
+    - git clone -b master --single-branch [email protected]:scopplestone/piclas-testing.git piclas-testing
+    - cd piclas-testing
+    - gh run download -n ${DO_TEST_APPIMAGE}
+    - module li
+    - ./tools/testAppImages.sh . regressioncheck

tools/testAppImages.sh

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #!/bin/bash
-dots='..........................................................................................................................................................'
+dots='................................................................................................................................................................................'
 
 # Set colours
 if test -t 1; then # if terminal