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Unstable build #257

---
name: Unstable build
on:
workflow_dispatch:
inputs:
branch:
description: The branch to create an unstable release for/from.
type: string
default: master
required: true
# Run nightly build at this time, bit of trial and error but this seems good.
schedule:
- cron: "0 6 * * *" # master build
- cron: "0 12 * * *" # 3.0 build
# We do not want a new unstable build to run whilst we are releasing the current unstable build.
concurrency: unstable-build-release
jobs:
# This job provides this metadata for the other jobs to use.
unstable-build-get-meta:
name: Get metadata to add to build
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
environment: unstable
outputs:
date: ${{ steps.date.outputs.date }}
branch: ${{ steps.branch.outputs.branch }}
permissions:
contents: none
steps:
# For cron builds, i.e. nightly, we provide date and time as extra parameter to distinguish them.
- name: Get current date
id: date
run: echo "date=$(date '+%Y-%m-%d-%H_%M_%S')" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
- name: Debug event output
uses: hmarr/debug-action@v3
# Now we need to determine which branch to build
- name: Manual run - get branch
if: github.event_name == 'workflow_dispatch'
run: |
echo "cron_branch=${{ github.event.inputs.branch }}" >> $GITHUB_ENV
shell: bash
- name: master run
if: github.event_name == 'schedule' && github.event.schedule=='0 6 * * *'
run: |
echo "cron_branch=master" >> $GITHUB_ENV
shell: bash
- name: 3.0 run
if: github.event_name == 'schedule' && github.event.schedule=='0 12 * * *'
run: |
echo "cron_branch=3.0" >> $GITHUB_ENV
shell: bash
- name: Output the branch to use
id: branch
run: |
echo "$cron_branch"
if [[ -z "$cron_branch" ]]; then
echo "Unable to determine branch to use"
exit 1
fi
echo "branch=$cron_branch" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
shell: bash
unstable-build-images:
needs: unstable-build-get-meta
uses: ./.github/workflows/call-build-images.yaml
with:
version: ${{ needs.unstable-build-get-meta.outputs.branch }}
ref: ${{ needs.unstable-build-get-meta.outputs.branch }}
registry: ghcr.io
username: ${{ github.actor }}
image: ${{ github.repository }}/unstable
environment: unstable
unstable: ${{ needs.unstable-build-get-meta.outputs.date }}
secrets:
token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
unstable-build-generate-matrix:
name: unstable build matrix
needs:
- unstable-build-get-meta
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
outputs:
build-matrix: ${{ steps.set-matrix.outputs.build-matrix }}
environment: unstable
permissions:
contents: read
steps:
- name: Checkout repository, always latest for action
uses: actions/checkout@v4
# Set up the list of target to build so we can pass the JSON to the reusable job
- uses: ./.github/actions/generate-package-build-matrix
id: set-matrix
with:
ref: ${{ needs.unstable-build-get-meta.outputs.branch }}
unstable-build-packages:
needs:
- unstable-build-get-meta
- unstable-build-generate-matrix
uses: ./.github/workflows/call-build-linux-packages.yaml
with:
version: ${{ needs.unstable-build-get-meta.outputs.branch }}
ref: ${{ needs.unstable-build-get-meta.outputs.branch }}
build_matrix: ${{ needs.unstable-build-generate-matrix.outputs.build-matrix }}
environment: unstable
unstable: ${{ needs.unstable-build-get-meta.outputs.date }}
secrets:
token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
unstable-build-windows-package:
needs:
- unstable-build-get-meta
uses: ./.github/workflows/call-build-windows.yaml
with:
version: ${{ needs.unstable-build-get-meta.outputs.branch }}
ref: ${{ needs.unstable-build-get-meta.outputs.branch }}
environment: unstable
unstable: ${{ needs.unstable-build-get-meta.outputs.date }}
secrets:
token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
unstable-build-macos-package:
needs:
- unstable-build-get-meta
uses: ./.github/workflows/call-build-macos.yaml
with:
version: ${{ needs.unstable-build-get-meta.outputs.branch }}
ref: ${{ needs.unstable-build-get-meta.outputs.branch }}
environment: unstable
unstable: ${{ needs.unstable-build-get-meta.outputs.date }}
secrets:
token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
# We already detain all artefacts as build output so just capture for an unstable release.
# We make all of these on a separate repo to prevent notification spam.
unstable-release:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
needs:
- unstable-build-get-meta
- unstable-build-images
- unstable-build-packages
- unstable-build-windows-package
- unstable-build-macos-package
environment: unstable
permissions:
contents: read
steps:
# Required to make a release later
- name: Checkout repository
uses: actions/checkout@v4
- name: Download all artefacts
continue-on-error: true
uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
with:
path: artifacts/
- name: Single packages tar
run: |
mkdir -p release-upload
# Optional JSON schema so ignore failure
mv -f artifacts/*.json release-upload/ || true
tar -czvf release-upload/packages-unstable-${{ needs.unstable-build-get-meta.outputs.branch }}.tar.gz -C artifacts/ .
shell: bash
- name: Log in to the Container registry
uses: docker/login-action@v3
with:
registry: ghcr.io
username: ${{ github.actor }}
password: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
- name: Pull containers as well (single arch only)
# May not be any/valid so ignore errors
continue-on-error: true
run: |
docker pull $IMAGE
docker save --output container-${{ needs.unstable-build-get-meta.outputs.branch }}.tar $IMAGE
docker pull $IMAGE-debug
docker save --output container-${{ needs.unstable-build-get-meta.outputs.branch }}-debug.tar $IMAGE-debug
shell: bash
working-directory: release-upload
env:
IMAGE: ghcr.io/${{ github.repository }}/unstable:${{ needs.unstable-build-get-meta.outputs.branch }}
- name: Display structure of files to upload
run: ls -R
working-directory: release-upload
shell: bash
- name: Remove any existing release
continue-on-error: true
run: gh release delete unstable-${{ needs.unstable-build-get-meta.outputs.branch }} --yes --repo ${{ secrets.RELEASE_REPO }}
env:
GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.RELEASE_TOKEN }}
shell: bash
- name: Create Release
# Do not fail the job here
continue-on-error: true
run: gh release create unstable-${{ needs.unstable-build-get-meta.outputs.branch }} release-upload/*.* --repo ${{ secrets.RELEASE_REPO }} --generate-notes --prerelease --target ${{ needs.unstable-build-get-meta.outputs.branch }} --title "Nightly unstable ${{ needs.unstable-build-get-meta.outputs.branch }} build"
env:
GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.RELEASE_TOKEN }}
shell: bash