Matmair/issue10740 (#497)

* reduce noise in docker

* refactor path infos

* add more info during local frontend build

* add frontend info during release build

tasks.py

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 """Tasks for automating certain actions and interacting with InvenTree from the CLI."""
 
+import datetime
 import json
 import os
 import pathlib
@@ -357,6 +358,26 @@ def manage_py_path():
     return manage_py_dir().joinpath('manage.py')
 
 
+def _frontend_info():
+    """Return the path of the frontend info directory."""
+    return manage_py_dir().joinpath('web', 'static', 'web', '.vite')
+
+
+def version_target_pth():
+    """Return the path of the target version file."""
+    return _frontend_info().joinpath('tag.txt')
+
+
+def version_sha_pth():
+    """Return the path of the SHA version file."""
+    return _frontend_info().joinpath('sha.txt')
+
+
+def version_source_pth():
+    """Return the path of the source version file."""
+    return _frontend_info().joinpath('source.txt')
+
+
 # endregion
 
 if __name__ in ['__main__', 'tasks']:
@@ -1664,6 +1685,31 @@ def frontend_build(c):
     info('Building frontend')
     yarn(c, 'yarn run build')
 
+    def write_info(path: Path, content: str):
+        """Helper function to write version content to file after cleaning it if it exists."""
+        if path.exists():
+            path.unlink()
+        path.write_text(content, encoding='utf-8')
+
+    # Write version marker
+    try:
+        import src.backend.InvenTree.InvenTree.version as InvenTreeVersion
+
+        if version_hash := InvenTreeVersion.inventreeCommitHash():
+            write_info(version_sha_pth(), version_hash)
+        elif version_tag := InvenTreeVersion.inventreeVersion():
+            write_info(version_target_pth(), version_tag)
+        else:
+            warning('No version information available to write frontend version marker')
+
+        # Write source marker
+        write_info(
+            version_source_pth(),
+            f'local build on {datetime.datetime.now().isoformat()}',
+        )
+    except Exception:
+        warning('Failed to write frontend version marker')
+
 
 @task
 def frontend_server(c):
@@ -1788,13 +1834,9 @@ def frontend_download(
         ref = 'tag' if tag else 'commit'
 
         if tag:
-            current = manage_py_dir().joinpath(
-                'web', 'static', 'web', '.vite', 'tag.txt'
-            )
+            current = version_target_pth()
         elif sha:
-            current = manage_py_dir().joinpath(
-                'web', 'static', 'web', '.vite', 'sha.txt'
-            )
+            current = version_sha_pth()
         else:
             raise ValueError('Either tag or sha needs to be set')