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fsfe / reuse-action

A GitHub action to check repositories for REUSE compliance
https://reuse.software
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Putting the tool in PATH? #12

Closed hoijui closed 11 months ago

hoijui commented 2 years ago

... that's what I would like. :-) In my github action definition, in a step after using this action, I run a bash script that internally uses the reuse tool. I run this bash script both on my machine and in CI, to get a reproducible/same/similar testing scenario of my project on my local machine and on CI. For that to work, the reuse tool would have to be in the PATH.

Looking on the base Docker files docu page, I saw that it supposedly is in ~/.local/bin. Not sure if that ~ refers to the same user as is running the GH action though, or if we would have to use ~reuse/.local/bin or something, instead.

mxmehl commented 2 years ago

Hm, the reuse-action uses the Docker image fsfe/reuse:latest. From what I can see, we install reuse in /opt/venv/bin which is also part of $PATH. So actually, using this image, you can use reuse to call the tool.

All we do with the actions is to switch the workdir to /github/workspace which is where Github mounts the repo to, and set a default entrypoint and cmd which match the base image IIRC.

Do you have a concrete workflow that we could test? If you run into issues, it would be interesting if you could echo the $PATH.

mxmehl commented 2 years ago

@hoijui Did you see my comment? Do you have a case which we could debug?

mxmehl commented 11 months ago

Closing as no suitable test case was given.