action-install-release

A GitHub Action that downloads a release and provision for later job usage. You don't need to download assets and extract, add system pathes, this action will do it for you with very easy configuration.

Usage

- name: Get conftest CLI
  uses: KeisukeYamashita/setup-release@v1.0.2
  with:
    repository: open-policy-agent/conftest

Dowload and provision tagged and latest release

This is just an example to show one way in which this action can be used.

on: pull_request
jobs:
  provision-tagged-release:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
      - uses: KeisukeYamashita/setup-release@v1.0.2
        with:
          repository: spinnaker/kleat
          tag: v0.3.0
      # Use the "kleat" command in the later steps
  provision-latest-release:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
      - uses: KeisukeYamashita/setup-release@v1.0.2
        with:
          repository: spinnaker/kleat
      # Use the "kleat" command in the later steps

Action inputs

Name	Description	Default
arch	The asset arch target.	amd64
archive	Archive type. Currently, tar.gz, darwin and zip is supported.	tar.gz
installPath	Path to install the extracted asset	UUID
repository	The GitHub repository where it is released	true
number	The number of the issue to post.	github.event.issue.number
platform	Assets target platform. linux, darwin is supported.	linux
tag	GitHub tag of the release	latest
token	GITHUB_TOKEN or a repo scoped PAT.	GITHUB_TOKEN

Note: You cannot use this action if the asset name is not included in the asset name because the search is based on the three inputs(arch, archive and platform) in the asset.name field.

Install Path

The extracted assets will be stores in /tmp/${UUID} by default. It is recommented to use this if you have multiple stages that uses this action. But, if you want to configure it, you can use installPath.

Action outputs

Name	Description
asset-id	ID of the downloaded, provisioned asset
asset-name	Name of the downloaded, provisioned asset
restore-from-cache	If restored from cache or not
tag	Tag that downloaded

Accessing issues in other repositories

You can close issues in another repository by using a PAT instead of GITHUB_TOKEN. The user associated with the PAT must have write access to the repository.

License

MIT