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-# systems-playbooks
+# Ansible Playbooks for Hellug Services
 
diff --git a/plays/update_gitea.yml b/plays/update_gitea.yml
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+--- 
+- hosts: localhost
+  become: no
+  roles:
+    - { role: roles/services/update_gitea }
+
diff --git a/roles/services/update_gitea/tasks/gitea.yml b/roles/services/update_gitea/tasks/gitea.yml
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+---
+
+- name: stop gitea service
+  ansible.builtin.service:
+    name: gitea
+    state: stopped
+
+- name: fetch latest archive version "{{ latest_vesion }}"
+  get_url:
+    url: "https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/releases/download/v{{ latest_version }}/gitea-{{ latest_version }}-linux-amd64"
+    dest: /usr/local/bin/gitea
+    mode: '0755'
diff --git a/roles/services/update_gitea/tasks/main.yml b/roles/services/update_gitea/tasks/main.yml
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+---
+- name: check latest version
+  shell: curl -s https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/releases/latest | sed 's#.*tag/\(.*\)\".*#\1#' | sed 's/v//1'
+  register: latest_version
+
+- name: check installed version
+  shell: /usr/local/bin/gitea -v | cut -d ' ' -f 3
+  register: installed_version
+
+- name: Install if latest is greater than installed version
+  include: gitea.yml
+    latest_version="{{ latest_version }}"
+  when: latest_version.stdout is version_compare(installed_version.stdout,'>')