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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+# vim: tabstop=4 shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4
+
+# Copyright (c) 2013-2014 Rackspace, Inc.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or
+# implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+"""
+Version build stamping script.
+
+This module generates and inserts a patch component of the semantic version
+stamp for Barbican, intended to ensure that a strictly monotonically increasing
+version is produced for consecutive development releases. Some repositories
+such as yum use this increasing semantic version to select the latest
+package for installations.
+
+This process may not be required if a bug in the 'pbr' library is fixed:
+https://bugs.launchpad.net/pbr/+bug/1206730
+"""
+import os
+
+from datetime import datetime
+from time import mktime
+
+
+# Determine version of this application.
+SETUP_FILE = 'setup.cfg'
+VERSIONFILE = os.path.join(SETUP_FILE)
+current_dir = os.getcwd()
+if current_dir.endswith('bin'):
+    VERSIONFILE = os.path.join('..', SETUP_FILE)
+
+
+def get_patch():
+    """Return a strictly monotonically increasing version patch.
+
+    This method is providing the 'patch' component of the semantic version
+    stamp for Barbican. It currently returns an epoch in seconds, but
+    could use a build id from the build system.
+    """
+    dt = datetime.now()
+    return int(mktime(dt.timetuple()))
+
+
+def update_versionfile(patch):
+    """Update the 'patch' version information per the provided patch."""
+    temp_name = VERSIONFILE + '~'
+    file_new = open(temp_name, 'w')
+    try:
+        with open(VERSIONFILE, 'r') as file_old:
+            for line in file_old:
+                if line.startswith('version ='):
+                    subs = line.split('.')
+                    if len(subs) <= 2:
+                        file_new.write(''.join([line[:-1], '.',
+                                                str(patch), '\n']))
+                    else:
+                        subs[2] = str(patch)
+                        file_new.write('.'.join(subs))
+                        if len(subs) == 3:
+                            file_new.write('\n')
+                else:
+                    file_new.write(line)
+    finally:
+        file_new.close()
+        os.rename(temp_name, VERSIONFILE)
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    patch = get_patch()
+    print 'patch: ', patch
+    update_versionfile(patch)