JenkinsBuild | Jenkins Unity Build | Plugin library

So after years of using CruiseControl.NET for my continuous integration tasks, Iv'e finally decided to bite the bullet and succumb to the world of JavaCI, namely Jenkins.

Iv'e got my build system set up, and it mostly works accept for the last step, my deploy step, seems that I just can't get it to do what I want.

A dotnet core web application that consists of a C# back end using Microsoft's MVC technologies, and a front end written in TypeScript using the Aurelia web application framework.

The steps to build and deploy this application manually are

• dotnet restore
• npm install
• dotnet build
• dotnet publish
• service supervisor stop (Must be run as root)
• rm -R /web/app/* (Must be run as www-data or root)
• cp -R /buildoutput /web/app (Must be run as www-data or root)
• service supervisor start (Must be run as root)

The build system is running on a 64bit Ubuntu 16.04 instance, and jenkins is set up to poll the Git Repositiory holding the source code one every 5 minutes to check for changes.

Every thing up to the "service supervisor stop" entry, works perfectly. No matter what I try, I can't find a sane way to get the root steps to execute.

This is what I have in the Jenkins Job so far:

The "DeployFromJenkins.sh" shell script, is nothing magic, it simply has the following in: (Actual server paths have been censored)

I have a bunch of csproj-files for which I want to add a path to search for assembly-references using the AssemblySearchPaths. As they are many project-files I wanted to do this only once for all using a Dirtector.Build.Props in the parent-directory of all my projects.

This is my Directory.Build.props:

I'm trying to create a Jenkins pipeline job that uses different Jenkinsbuild files depending on the job parameter. Is there a way to load the Jenkins build file during the execution of the job, something like:

I am confused. I've setup Jenkins. I've setup a Master and a Slave node. I have a Jenkinsbuild file in my git repo, which is executed by the pipeline job. And in the Jenkinsbuild file I have lines like this:

Using the Jenkins JSON API I'm correctly getting the following JSON result:

Capturing the last built date from Jenkins gives me an epoch date in the format 1493146210998, whereas today's date is (roughly, at the time of writing) 1493146250. Obviously they're in different units.

I need to check the two dates, and find out if "right now" is at least eight hours later than the jenkins timestamp. I think I'm correctly converting the first timestamp to match the units of the second (diving by 1000) but the math involved in comparing the two is tripping me up.

This will be in a bash script and will end up something like;