GitLab release with composer dependencies

[noplanman]

I'm basically looking for a way to use GitLab CI to build a production plugin (composer install --no-dev) and zip the clean file structure without any development stuff.

After many failed attempts using GitLab CI Job: build-plugin and Release Asset: true I'm coming here to figure out what I'm doing wrong...

What exactly needs to be built as an artifact for GitHub Updater to install it successfully?

Here is my simple example of a .gitlab-ci.yml file:

build-plugin:
  only:
  - tags
  image: php:7.3-cli-alpine
  script:
  - apk -U add git zip
  - curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
  - php composer.phar install --no-dev --no-interaction
  # Zip only required files
  - zip -r /tmp/plugin.zip . -i@.ziponly
  # Delete everything
  - rm -rf $(ls -A)
  # Unzip only necessary files back here for the artifact itself
  - unzip /tmp/plugin.zip -d .
  artifacts:
    name: "${CI_PROJECT_NAME}-${CI_COMMIT_TAG}"
    paths: [.]
    expire_in: 1 week

(.ziponly is a file that contains a list of files that are required for the production plugin)

This creates an artifact with the correct name: <repo>-<tag>.zip

But when updating, it breaks after creating the first folder and that folder stays empty:

- plugin.php
- vendor (empty)

What it should be:

- plugin.php
- lib
  - (all libs etc.)
- vendor
  - (all vendor files)

Any guidance would be much appreciated, thanks :smiley:

[afragen]

If you can download the build-plugin from the download link you should be able to use GHU as you have it set up.

If you can give me read access I might be able to help more. Same username as here.

[afragen]

I can’t really help with any CI questions. My lack of knowledge.

[noplanman]

Thanks for your reply @afragen.

I saw that the problem seems to be WordPress related, but I haven't fully understood why :thinking: It's having trouble moving the files from the upgrade folder (which does contain the full plugin contents correctly) to the actual plugin folder.

I'll close off here as it seems unrelated.