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+#!/bin/bash
+
+# vim: ts=4 sw=4 sts=4 et tw=72 :
+
+# force any errors to cause the script and job to end in failure
+set -xeu -o pipefail
+
+ensure_kernel_install() {
+    # Workaround for mkinitrd failing on occassion.
+    # On CentOS 7 it seems like the kernel install can fail it's mkinitrd
+    # run quietly, so we may not notice the failure. This script retries for a
+    # few times before giving up.
+    initramfs_ver=$(rpm -q kernel | tail -1 | sed "s/kernel-/initramfs-/")
+    grub_conf="/boot/grub/grub.conf"
+    # Public cloud does not use /boot/grub/grub.conf and uses grub2 instead.
+    if [ ! -e "$grub_conf" ]; then
+        echo "$grub_conf not found. Using Grub 2 conf instead."
+        grub_conf="/boot/grub2/grub.cfg"
+    fi
+
+    for i in $(seq 3); do
+        if grep "$initramfs_ver" "$grub_conf"; then
+            break
+        fi
+        echo "Kernel initrd missing. Retrying to install kernel..."
+        yum reinstall -y kernel
+    done
+    if ! grep "$initramfs_ver" "$grub_conf"; then
+        cat /boot/grub/grub.conf
+        echo "ERROR: Failed to install kernel."
+        exit 1
+    fi
+}
+
+ensure_ubuntu_install() {
+    # Workaround for mirrors occassionally failing to install a package.
+    # On Ubuntu sometimes the mirrors fail to install a package. This wrapper
+    # checks that a package is successfully installed before moving on.
+
+    packages=($@)
+
+    for pkg in "${packages[@]}"
+    do
+        # Retry installing package 5 times if necessary
+        for i in {0..5}
+        do
+            if [ "$(dpkg-query -W -f='${Status}' "$pkg" 2>/dev/null | grep -c "ok installed")" -eq 0 ]; then
+                apt-cache policy "$pkg"
+                apt-get install "$pkg"
+                continue
+            else
+                echo "$pkg already installed."
+                break
+            fi
+        done
+    done
+}
+
+rh_systems() {
+    # Handle the occurance where SELINUX is actually disabled
+    SELINUX=$(grep -E '^SELINUX=(disabled|permissive|enforcing)$' /etc/selinux/config)
+    MODE=$(echo "$SELINUX" | cut -f 2 -d '=')
+    case "$MODE" in
+        permissive)
+            echo "************************************"
+            echo "** SYSTEM ENTERING ENFORCING MODE **"
+            echo "************************************"
+            # make sure that the filesystem is properly labelled.
+            # it could be not fully labeled correctly if it was just switched
+            # from disabled, the autorelabel misses some things
+            # skip relabelling on /dev as it will generally throw errors
+            restorecon -R -e /dev /
+
+            # enable enforcing mode from the very start
+            setenforce enforcing
+
+            # configure system for enforcing mode on next boot
+            sed -i 's/SELINUX=permissive/SELINUX=enforcing/' /etc/selinux/config
+        ;;
+        disabled)
+            sed -i 's/SELINUX=disabled/SELINUX=permissive/' /etc/selinux/config
+            touch /.autorelabel
+
+            echo "*******************************************"
+            echo "** SYSTEM REQUIRES A RESTART FOR SELINUX **"
+            echo "*******************************************"
+        ;;
+        enforcing)
+            echo "*********************************"
+            echo "** SYSTEM IS IN ENFORCING MODE **"
+            echo "*********************************"
+        ;;
+    esac
+
+    # Allow jenkins access to alternatives command to switch java version
+    cat <<EOF >/etc/sudoers.d/89-jenkins-user-defaults
+Defaults:jenkins !requiretty
+jenkins ALL = NOPASSWD: /usr/sbin/alternatives
+EOF
+
+    echo "---> Updating operating system"
+    yum clean all
+    yum install -y deltarpm
+    yum update -y
+
+    ensure_kernel_install
+
+    # add in components we need or want on systems
+    echo "---> Installing base packages"
+    yum install -y @base https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
+    # separate group installs from package installs since a non-existing
+    # group with dnf based systems (F21+) will fail the install if such
+    # a group does not exist
+    yum install -y unzip xz puppet git git-review perl-XML-XPath
+    yum install -y python-{devel,virtualenv,setuptools,pip}
+
+    # All of our systems require Java (because of Jenkins)
+    # Install all versions of the OpenJDK devel but force 1.7.0 to be the
+    # default
+
+    echo "---> Configuring OpenJDK"
+    yum install -y 'java-*-openjdk-devel'
+
+    FACTER_OS=$(/usr/bin/facter operatingsystem)
+    FACTER_OSVER=$(/usr/bin/facter operatingsystemrelease)
+    case "$FACTER_OS" in
+        Fedora)
+            if [ "$FACTER_OSVER" -ge "21" ]
+            then
+                echo "---> not modifying java alternatives as OpenJDK 1.7.0 does not exist"
+            else
+                alternatives --set java /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.7.0-openjdk.x86_64/bin/java
+                alternatives --set java_sdk_openjdk /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.7.0-openjdk.x86_64
+            fi
+        ;;
+        RedHat|CentOS)
+            if [ "$(echo "$FACTER_OSVER" | cut -d'.' -f1)" -ge "7" ]
+            then
+                echo "---> not modifying java alternatives as OpenJDK 1.7.0 does not exist"
+            else
+                alternatives --set java /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.7.0-openjdk.x86_64/bin/java
+                alternatives --set java_sdk_openjdk /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.7.0-openjdk.x86_64
+            fi
+        ;;
+        *)
+            alternatives --set java /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.7.0-openjdk.x86_64/bin/java
+            alternatives --set java_sdk_openjdk /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.7.0-openjdk.x86_64
+        ;;
+    esac
+
+    ########################
+    # --- START LFTOOLS DEPS
+
+    # Used by various scripts to push patches to Gerrit
+    yum install -y git-review
+
+    # Needed to parse OpenStack commands used by opendaylight-infra stack commands
+    # to initialize Heat template based systems.
+    yum install -y jq
+
+    # Used by lftools scripts to parse XML
+    yum install -y xmlstarlet
+
+    # Haskel Packages
+    # Cabal update fails on a 1G system so workaround that with a swap file
+    dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/swap bs=1M count=1024
+    mkswap /tmp/swap
+    swapon /tmp/swap
+
+    yum install -y cabal-install
+    cabal update
+    cabal install "Cabal<1.18"  # Pull Cabal version that is capable of building shellcheck
+    cabal install --bindir=/usr/local/bin "shellcheck-0.4.6"  # Pin shellcheck version
+
+    # --- END LFTOOLS DEPS
+    ######################
+
+    # install haveged to avoid low entropy rejecting ssh connections
+    yum install -y haveged
+    systemctl enable haveged.service
+}
+
+ubuntu_systems() {
+    # Ignore SELinux since slamming that onto Ubuntu leads to
+    # frustration
+
+    # Allow jenkins access to update-alternatives command to switch java version
+    cat <<EOF >/etc/sudoers.d/89-jenkins-user-defaults
+Defaults:jenkins !requiretty
+jenkins ALL = NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/update-alternatives
+EOF
+
+    export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
+    cat <<EOF >> /etc/apt/apt.conf
+APT {
+  Get {
+    Assume-Yes "true";
+    allow-change-held-packages "true";
+    allow-downgrades "true";
+    allow-remove-essential "true";
+  };
+};
+
+Dpkg::Options {
+  "--force-confdef";
+  "--force-confold";
+};
+
+EOF
+
+    # Add hostname to /etc/hosts to fix 'unable to resolve host' issue with sudo
+    sed -i "/127.0.0.1/s/$/ $(hostname)/" /etc/hosts
+
+    echo "---> Updating operating system"
+
+    # add additional repositories
+    sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu $(lsb_release -sc) main universe restricted multiverse"
+
+    echo "---> Installing base packages"
+    apt-get clean
+    apt-get update -m
+    apt-get upgrade -m
+    apt-get dist-upgrade -m
+
+    ensure_ubuntu_install unzip xz-utils puppet git libxml-xpath-perl
+
+    # install Java 7
+    echo "---> Configuring OpenJDK"
+    FACTER_OSVER=$(/usr/bin/facter operatingsystemrelease)
+    case "$FACTER_OSVER" in
+        14.04)
+            apt-get install openjdk-7-jdk
+            # make jdk8 available
+            add-apt-repository -y ppa:openjdk-r/ppa
+            apt-get update
+            # We need to force openjdk-8-jdk to install
+            apt-get install openjdk-8-jdk
+            # make sure that we still default to openjdk 7
+            update-alternatives --set java /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64/jre/bin/java
+            update-alternatives --set javac /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64/bin/javac
+        ;;
+        16.04)
+            apt-get install openjdk-8-jdk
+        ;;
+        *)
+            echo "---> Unknown Ubuntu version $FACTER_OSVER"
+            exit 1
+        ;;
+    esac
+
+    ########################
+    # --- START LFTOOLS DEPS
+
+    # Used by various scripts to push patches to Gerrit
+    ensure_ubuntu_install git-review
+
+    # Needed to parse OpenStack commands used by opendaylight-infra stack commands
+    # to initialize Heat template based systems.
+    ensure_ubuntu_install jq
+
+    # Used by lftools scripts to parse XML
+    ensure_ubuntu_install xmlstarlet
+
+    # Haskel Packages
+    # Cabal update fails on a 1G system so workaround that with a swap file
+    dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/swap bs=1M count=1024
+    mkswap /tmp/swap
+    swapon /tmp/swap
+
+    ensure_ubuntu_install cabal-install
+    cabal update
+    cabal install --bindir=/usr/local/bin "shellcheck-0.4.6"  # Pin shellcheck version
+
+    # --- END LFTOOLS DEPS
+    ######################
+
+    # install haveged to avoid low entropy rejecting ssh connections
+    apt-get install haveged
+    update-rc.d haveged defaults
+
+    # disable unattended upgrades & daily updates
+    echo '---> Disabling automatic daily upgrades'
+    sed -ine 's/"1"/"0"/g' /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/10periodic
+    echo 'APT::Periodic::Unattended-Upgrade "0";' >> /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/10periodic
+}
+
+all_systems() {
+    # Do any Distro specific installations here
+    echo "Checking distribution"
+    FACTER_OS=$(/usr/bin/facter operatingsystem)
+    case "$FACTER_OS" in
+        *)
+            echo "---> $FACTER_OS found"
+            echo "No extra steps for $FACTER_OS"
+        ;;
+    esac
+}
+
+echo "---> Attempting to detect OS"
+# upstream cloud images use the distro name as the initial user
+ORIGIN=$(if [ -e /etc/redhat-release ]
+    then
+        echo redhat
+    else
+        echo ubuntu
+    fi)
+#ORIGIN=$(logname)
+
+case "${ORIGIN}" in
+    fedora|centos|redhat)
+        echo "---> RH type system detected"
+        rh_systems
+    ;;
+    ubuntu)
+        echo "---> Ubuntu system detected"
+        ubuntu_systems
+    ;;
+    *)
+        # Kill the build for unhandled distributions
+        echo "---> Unknown operating system" 1>&2
+        exit 1
+    ;;
+esac
+
+# execute steps for all systems
+all_systems