auto export user configuration on npm install

.gitignore

@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 */node_modules
-debomatic-webui/public/external_libs
+*/*/external_libs
+*/user.config.js

debomatic-webui/lib/config.js

@@ -1,10 +1,16 @@
-var config = {}
+/*
+ *  Please DO NOT edit this file.
+ *
+ *  Edit auto-generated "user.config.js" file instead.
+ *
+ */
 
-config.version = '0.1-b1'
+// #start config-auto-export
+var config = {}
 
 config.host = 'localhost'
 config.port = 3000
-config.user = 'www-data'  // who will run server
+config.user = 'www-data'  // who will run server [not fully tested yet]
 
 config.debomatic = {}
 config.debomatic.path = '/srv/debomatic-amd64'
@@ -37,7 +43,12 @@ config.web.preferences.file_background = true
 config.web.preferences.file_fontsize = 13 // valid values are [13..16]
 config.web.preferences.debug = 0      // debug level - 0 means disabled
 
-// DO NOT EDIT these ones
+// #end config-auto-export
+
+
+// DO NOT TOUCH these ones
+
+config.version = '0.1-b1'
 
 // A simple function to quickly have
 // get and set strings for client events

debomatic-webui/scripts/install.sh

@@ -4,3 +4,5 @@ export SCRIPTS_DIR="$( cd "$( dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" )" && pwd )"
 
 bash ${SCRIPTS_DIR}/install/remove_css_directory_listing.sh
 bash ${SCRIPTS_DIR}/install/download_external_libs.sh
+
+python ${SCRIPTS_DIR}/install/create-user-config.py

debomatic-webui/scripts/install/create-user-config.py

@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+#!/usr/bin/python
+
+# create a user.config.js file starting from lib/config.js
+
+import os
+
+base_path = os.environ['SCRIPTS_DIR']
+
+global_config_file = os.path.join(base_path, '../lib/config.js')
+user_config_file = os.path.join(base_path, '../user.config.js')
+
+if os.path.isfile(user_config_file):
+  print ("A config user file already exists. Skipping creation.")
+  print user_config_file
+  exit()
+
+export_header = """
+/*
+ * debomatic-webui user configuration
+ */
+
+"""
+
+export_config = []
+
+with open(global_config_file) as fd:
+  start = False
+  for line in fd:
+    if line.find('#start config-auto-export') >= 0:
+      start = True
+      continue
+    elif line.find('#end config-auto-export') >= 0:
+      break
+    if start:
+      export_config.append(line)
+
+export_config.append('// DO NOT EDIT THIS LINE:\n')
+export_config.append('module.exports = config')
+
+print ("Creating user configuration ...")
+
+with open(user_config_file, 'w') as fd:
+  fd.write(export_header)
+  fd.write(''.join(export_config))