GHA fails with dependencies not found: cache issue?

[ghost]

I created a repo, did a few PRs which spawned GHA that worked fine. Then, I renamed the repo (typo!) and now the caching seems wrong. The Setup the environment gets a cache which contains nothing: no isort, black, or anything at all. This, of course, causes the next step to fail horribly:

🚀 Checking code formatting: Running isort
make: isort: Command not found
make: *** [Makefile:13: check] Error 127

Any idea what could be going wrong there?

[fpgmaas]

That is a strange issue. I just tried to replicate it by creating a private repository using the ccp command and filling in the prompts. I then created a Pull Request and the GH Actions ran successfully. I then renamed the repository, and updated the PR. The GH Actions still ran without an issue. Is there anything else other than the name of the repository that changed?

If not, it seems there simply is an issue with the cacheing mechanism., and as of yet there is no way to manually clear the cache. I would suggest raising an issue https://github.com/actions/cache?

The simplest solution approaches I can think of for now would be to:

• Change the key of the cache in the Load cached venv step. Or if that fails;
• Delete the repository on GitHub, create it again, add the remote with git remote add origin, and push your branch.

Hope this helps!

[ghost]

As an experiment, I did:

• Created a new branch
• Added something to poetry which caused poetry.lock to update
• The cache is re-generated, as expected!
• The quality now passes fine.

So, I guess there must have been some issue at my end which caused an empty (or incomplete) cache to be generated. I think we can mark this ca closed. If anyone has the same issue, they can just add a new module and the cache should update – not sure what will happen if they remove it? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯