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[rehanhaider]

Need any help with topics associated with Python🐍 or Cloud ☁☁. Feel free to start a discussion.

[Kujiranoai]

Running a .yml file with a github action in a devcontainer

Hello - I was working through your article on Automate Deployment of Pelican Website to Github pages which uses a vscode devcontainer and everything was going fine until it came to actually running the yaml file, pelican.yml.

I created a .github/workflows/pelican.yml file under the .devcontainer folder and followed the instructions and while the git push command worked OK the instructions in the pelican.yml file never seemed to get triggered. I tried various things such as rerunning the devcontainer from scratch after setting up the file but with no luck.

My github repository with the relevant files is here: and the link to pelican.yml is here.

I'm not so expert at this so might be making some simple error somewhere but if you had any advice it would be much appreciated, and thanks for your article.

[rehanhaider]

Where are you storing your CSS files? I didn't see them on the repository.

[Kujiranoai]

Hi - here under output - theme - css.

The pelican html pages reference theme/cssfilename.css which seems natural in the circumstances - but perhaps there is some problem in referencing the file...?

[Kujiranoai]

Hello - I finally got it working thanks to your article and help, thanks very much. It worked after I changed the SITEURL variable to the github pages URL and the relative references to True in the pelican publish config file. All beginners errors I suspect. Changes to the content are feeding through OK so I'll play around with it more...

Thanks again and regards

[rehanhaider]

Congratulations!!

[rehanhaider]

@Kujiranoai I happened to look at your repository and will give you one suggestion.

Keep your theme / CSS outside of the output folder. output folder is ephemeral and is generated everytime you update the content. The GitHub action is designed in a way where you don't need to upload the output folder at all to GitHub (refer to the CloudBytes repository, it doesn't have an output folder). Instead the action generates it on the fly and then uploads it into the relevant place.

[jalsco]

About the pelican minify : https://cloudbytes.dev/snippets/pelican-plugin-to-minify-html-css-and-js

For me it fails on first step: pip install minify-html

ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement minify-html (from versions: none)
ERROR: No matching distribution found for minify-html

I am running Debian 10 (buster) and python 3.7.3

What steps should I take to try to resolve this problem ?

I was going to use : css-html-js-minify: But read your comment "Broke the website 💔, removed embedded JS, deleted some CSS variables & class definitions." ... so I do not want to risk that

[jalsco]

yes , I install pip packages all the time. Never had any problem with that. I checked the network - that server is not network proxy-ed at all. I believe it is set to use opendns for its DNS. But I never had difficulty with pip install starting up. On the rare occasions that pip fails (not counting this minify_html ) it has been well into an install, never failed to connect before...

[rehanhaider]

I understand, can you try installing something right now please?

I can install the package so my guess would some issue with the local mirror of PyPI or network issues.

[jalsco]

I am on ARM processor not AMD as in your screenshot. Maybe they have not compiled binaries for ARM, I do not know...

Yes, I just successfully did the pip install and pip uninstall of the css-html-js-minify so I do know that pip is working

[rehanhaider]

Right, that is a possibility. You might want to raise an issue in minify-html repo. I've found them to be typically quite responsive.

[jalsco]

thanks . Issue #53 🙏🏻👍🏻

[w3rm]

thanks for writing this article -> https://cloudbytes.dev/snippets/upgrade-python-to-latest-version-on-ubuntu-linux, it helped me a lot!

[rehanhaider]

@w3rm Appreciate your kind words.

[jalsco]

Sorry for asking a simple question... Just about formatting in RST in that article :

How did you make the space on the line before the apt list ? When I do it the apt is right up against the left edge of that box.

[rehanhaider]

@jalsco that is done using CSS. you need padding :0.5em; or something like that

[Hoklifter]

I dont have my linux anymore :( , any way of getting it back?

After following

https://cloudbytes.dev/snippets/upgrade-python-to-latest-version-on-ubuntu-linux

My pc's ambient doesnt work anymore. Someone can help me? Im new to linux

My linux is a mint 20.3.