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+#!/bin/bash
+#
+# This assumes all of the OS-level configuration has been completed and git repo has already been cloned
+#
+# This script should be run from the repo's deployment directory
+# cd deployment
+# ./build-s3-dist.sh source-bucket-base-name solution-name version-code
+#
+# Paramenters:
+#  - source-bucket-base-name: Name for the S3 bucket location where the template will source the Lambda
+#    code from. The template will append '-[region_name]' to this bucket name.
+#    For example: ./build-s3-dist.sh solutions my-solution v1.0.0
+#    The template will then expect the source code to be located in the solutions-[region_name] bucket
+#
+#  - solution-name: name of the solution for consistency
+#
+#  - version-code: version of the package
+
+# Check to see if input has been provided:
+if [ -z "$1" ] || [ -z "$2" ] || [ -z "$3" ]; then
+    echo "Please provide the base source bucket name, trademark approved solution name and version where the lambda code will eventually reside."
+    echo "For example: ./build-s3-dist.sh solutions trademarked-solution-name v1.0.0"
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+# Get reference for all important folders
+template_dir="$PWD"
+template_dist_dir="$template_dir/global-s3-assets"
+build_dist_dir="$template_dir/regional-s3-assets"
+source_dir="$template_dir/../source"
+
+cp $source_dir/setup_cfn.yml $template_dir/guidance-for-multi-omics-and-multi-modal-data-integration-and-analysis-on-aws.template
+cp $source_dir/setup_cfn.yml $template_dir/$SOLUTION_NAME.template
+
+echo "------------------------------------------------------------------------------"
+echo "[Init] Clean old dist"
+echo "------------------------------------------------------------------------------"
+echo "rm -rf $template_dist_dir"
+rm -rf $template_dist_dir
+echo "mkdir -p $template_dist_dir"
+mkdir -p $template_dist_dir
+#echo "rm -rf $build_dist_dir"
+#rm -rf $build_dist_dir
+echo "mkdir -p $build_dist_dir"
+mkdir -p $build_dist_dir
+
+echo "------------------------------------------------------------------------------"
+echo "[Packing] Templates"
+echo "------------------------------------------------------------------------------"
+echo "cp $template_dir/*.template $template_dist_dir/"
+cp $template_dir/*.template $template_dist_dir/
+echo "copy yaml templates and rename"
+#cp $template_dir/*.yml $template_dist_dir/
+#cd $template_dist_dir
+# Rename all *.yaml to *.template
+#for f in *.yml; do
+#    mv -- "$f" "${f%.yml}.template"
+#done
+
+#cd ..
+echo "Updating code source bucket in template with $1"
+replace="s/%%BUCKET_NAME%%/$1/g"
+echo "sed -i '' -e $replace $template_dist_dir/*.template"
+sed -i '' -e $replace $template_dist_dir/*.template
+replace="s/%%SOLUTION_NAME%%/$2/g"
+echo "sed -i '' -e $replace $template_dist_dir/*.template"
+sed -i '' -e $replace $template_dist_dir/*.template
+replace="s/%%VERSION%%/$3/g"
+echo "sed -i '' -e $replace $template_dist_dir/*.template"
+sed -i '' -e $replace $template_dist_dir/*.template
+
+mkdir -p $build_dist_dir/references/hg38
+mkdir -p $build_dist_dir/variants/1kg/
+mkdir $build_dist_dir/variants/vcf/
+mkdir -p $build_dist_dir/annotation/clinvar/
+mkdir $build_dist_dir/tcga/
+
+echo "------------------------------------------------------------------------------"
+echo "[Rebuild] Solution"
+echo "------------------------------------------------------------------------------"
+
+cd $source_dir
+
+bundle_dir="$source_dir/../bundle"
+mkdir -p $bundle_dir
+
+# create the lambda function deployment pacakage for the solution setup
+cd $source_dir/GenomicsAnalysisCode/setup
+pip install -t . crhelper
+zip -r $bundle_dir/SolutionSetup.zip .
+
+# package the solution
+cd $source_dir
+zip -r $bundle_dir/Solution.zip .
+
+# package new lambdas here 
+
+# upload zips here 
+
+cd $bundle_dir
+cp Solution.zip $template_dist_dir/
+cp SolutionSetup.zip $template_dist_dir/
+cp Solution.zip $build_dist_dir/
+cp SolutionSetup.zip $build_dist_dir/