From a1244be5ac97761b4c7dc5a49c7288f467b99ca3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mattermost Build <build@mattermost.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2024 22:58:26 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] [MM-58065] Force the packager to create the version directory
 before packing (#3022) (#3023)

(cherry picked from commit e623fd1536f15543bca11136795595e8e3eb7437)

Co-authored-by: Devin Binnie <52460000+devinbinnie@users.noreply.github.com>
---
 electron-builder.json |  1 +
 scripts/beforepack.js | 14 ++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 scripts/beforepack.js

diff --git a/electron-builder.json b/electron-builder.json
index 4afcea26..90de0232 100644
--- a/electron-builder.json
+++ b/electron-builder.json
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@
       ]
     }
   ],
+  "beforePack": "scripts/beforepack.js",
   "afterPack": "scripts/afterpack.js",
   "afterAllArtifactBuild": "scripts/afterbuild.js",
   "deb": {
diff --git a/scripts/beforepack.js b/scripts/beforepack.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..970faa11
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/beforepack.js
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+// Copyright (c) 2016-present Mattermost, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
+// See LICENSE.txt for license information.
+
+var fs = require('fs');
+var path = require('path');
+
+exports.default = async function beforePack(context) {
+    // The debian packager (fpm) complains when the directory to output the package to doesn't exist
+    // So we have to manually create it first
+    var dir = path.join(context.outDir, context.packager.appInfo.version)
+    if (!fs.existsSync(dir)){
+        fs.mkdirSync(dir);
+    }
+};