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What gyscos says. According to the changelog, node16 was removed with runner version v2.321.0. I changed it to node20 in the PKGBUILD [1] and was successfully able to configure and start a job with it.

If you use paru as aur-helper, you can add the following lines to your /etc/paru.conf:

[ADABRU]
Url = https://github.com/adabru/github-actions-bin

Then run paru -S github-actions-bin to install the patched version. Optionally, you can first create a GitHub fork.

[1] https://github.com/adabru/github-actions-bin/commit/20926f2f7970b0a860509f62b0d7ceb4d4d7f097

Somehow the github-actions.service tries to run /var/lib/github-actions/externals/node16/bin/node, but the externals folder only has node20 and node20_alpine folders.

Currently broken because the *.template files are not copied into the package. Here's a patch:

diff --git a/PKGBUILD b/PKGBUILD
index e1c4865..7b9a916 100755
--- a/PKGBUILD
+++ b/PKGBUILD
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ package() {
        # Useless on pacman-based distributions
        rm -f "$srcdir"/bin/installdependencies.sh

-       cp -r -t "$pkgdir"/var/lib/$_pkgname "$srcdir"/{bin,externals,*.sh}
+       cp -r -t "$pkgdir"/var/lib/$_pkgname "$srcdir"/{bin,externals,*.sh,*.template}

        # also see github-actions.tmpfiles
        chmod 0775 "$pkgdir"/var/lib/$_pkgname

@Mike616 (and anyone else wondering)

To configure the runner, run config.sh as user github-actions:

$ cd /var/lib/github-actions

$ sudo -u github-actions ./config --url https://github.com/your/repo --token AAA...

$ sudo systemctl enable github-actions.service

$ sudo systemctl start github-actions.service

You found the token you need to use under https://github.com/your/repo/settings/actions/runners/new?arch=x64&os=linux

@loathingkernel Thanks. Fixed.

Please, don't do this

install=PKGBUILD

I get that it works and it's cool, but it's bad to break standardized procedures. pre_remove and post_remove should go into their own <something>.install file. There is no guarantee that there won't ever be a name overlap between the functions defined in a PKGBUILD and an .install file

What's the correct process for installing this? After installation, I tried to run /var/lib/github-actions/config.sh but it fails because my user doesn't have write perms for the directory. It also won't let me run with sudo so I chown root:wheel -R /var/lib/github-actions. I was able to configure but systemctl start github-actions.service fails because:

Unhandled exception. System.UnauthorizedAccessException: Access to the path '/var/lib/github-actions/_diag/Runner_20221111-001156-utc.log' is denied.

This file doesn't exist but the directory has 775 and is owned by root:wheel. What do I need to do to fix it?

I am currently not sure of the exact sequence of events that leads to the error.

I think it should be:

1. Installing this package at 2.296.1, which installs bin for root:root.
2. The auto-updater upgrades the runtime to a new version, 2.296.2 for example. It will move bin to bin.2.296.1, download and create bin.2.296.2, and create bin as a symlink to bin.2.296.2. So bin.2.296.1 is owned by root:root.
3. Somehow, the runtime thinks it's at 2.296.1 again. It could be done by reinstall this package at 2.296.1.
4. Then the auto-updater will try move bin to bin.2.296.1 again and give the error.

@petronny I am currently not sure of the exact sequence of events that leads to the error. Usually we discover the issue after a reboot (which is typically, but not always, preceded by a system update).

Not sure why we would already have /var/lib/github-actions/bin.2.296.1/ in our system? There are only 2 places it could have come from, (1) the auto-updater, or (2) upgrading this package, and I would not expect either of those two actions to result in an error such as this.

Prebuilt binaries of this package can be found in arch4edu.