Check released version and configured version

Recently same version published and caused issues for the downstream applications with checksum changes. Added GitHub step check whether the version configured has been released previously. This will prevent overriding existing releases

Signed-off-by: Chaminda Divitotawela <cdivitotawela@gmail.com>

.github/workflows/build.yml

@@ -32,6 +32,25 @@ jobs:
         uses: actions/checkout@v4
         with:
           submodules: recursive
+      # Check whether gradle.properties version has been released already
+      # This prevents accidently publish same version
+      # Only check binary for arithmetic as all published together and arithmetic is the first
+      - name: Check existing release
+        run: |
+          # Check whether version contains SNAPSHOT
+          grep "^version" gradle.properties | grep -q SNAPSHOT || {
+            # Extract version from gradle.properties
+            VERSION=$(grep "^version" gradle.properties | sed 's|^version=\(.*\)$|\1|g')
+            echo "Query for version [$VERSION]"
+            curl --head -L --silent --output /dev/null --fail "$ART_URL/$VERSION" &&  {
+              echo "ERROR: Binary arithmetic already exit for version [$VERSION]"
+              echo "ERROR: Blocking publishing same version to the Besu Artiactory"
+              echo "url $ART_URL/$VERSION"
+              exit 1
+            }
+          }
+        env:
+          ART_URL: 'https://hyperledger.jfrog.io/artifactory/besu-maven/org/hyperledger/besu/arithmetic'
       - name: Build
         run: ./build.sh
       - uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3.1.0