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Publish AUR package

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Publish AUR package

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Publish AUR package

Publish an AUR package

Installation

Copy and paste the following snippet into your .yml file.

              

- name: Publish AUR package

uses: KSXGitHub/[email protected]

Learn more about this action in KSXGitHub/github-actions-deploy-aur

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Publish AUR package

GitHub Actions to publish AUR package.

Inputs

pkgname

Required AUR package name.

pkgbuild

Required Path to PKGBUILD file. This file is often generated by prior steps.

assets

Optional Newline-separated glob patterns for additional files to be added to the AUR repository. Glob patterns will be expanded by bash when copying the files to the repository.

updpkgsums

Optional Update checksums using updpkgsums.

test

Optional Check that PKGBUILD could be built.

test_flags

Optional Command line flags for makepkg to build the package (if test is enabled). The default flags are --clean --cleanbuild --nodeps.

post_process

Optional A line of commands to execute after processing the package.

commit_username

Required The username to use when creating the new commit.

commit_email

Required The email to use when creating the new commit.

ssh_private_key

Required Your private key with access to AUR package.

commit_message

Optional Commit message to use when creating the new commit.

allow_empty_commits

Optional Allow empty commits, i.e. commits with no change. The default value is false.

force_push

Optional Use --force when push to the AUR. The default value is false.

ssh_keyscan_types

Optional Comma-separated list of types to use when adding aur.archlinux.org to known hosts.

Example usage

name: aur-publish

on:
  push:
    tags:
      - '*'

jobs:
  aur-publish:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v2

      - name: Generate PKGBUILD
        run: bash ./generate-pkgbuild.bash

      - name: Publish AUR package
        uses: KSXGitHub/github-actions-deploy-aur@<TAG>
        with:
          pkgname: my-awesome-package
          pkgbuild: ./PKGBUILD
          commit_username: ${{ secrets.AUR_USERNAME }}
          commit_email: ${{ secrets.AUR_EMAIL }}
          ssh_private_key: ${{ secrets.AUR_SSH_PRIVATE_KEY }}
          commit_message: Update AUR package
          ssh_keyscan_types: rsa,ecdsa,ed25519

Note: Replace <TAG> in the above code snippet with a tag of this repo.

Tip: To create secrets (such as secrets.AUR_USERNAME, secrets.AUR_EMAIL, and secrets.AUR_SSH_PRIVATE_KEY above), go to $YOUR_GITHUB_REPO_URL/settings/secrets. Read this for more information.

Tip: This action does not generate PKGBUILD for you, you must generate it yourself (e.g. by using actions before this action).

Real-world applications

sane-fmt has a workflow that builds and uploads executables to GitHub Release then generates PKGBUILD files for and use this very action to update aur/sane-fmt and aur/sane-fmt-bin.

pretty-exec has a workflow that builds and uploads executables to GitHub Release then generates PKGBUILD files for and use this very action to update aur/pretty-exec and aur/pretty-exec-bin.

build-fs-tree has a workflow that builds and uploads executables to GitHub Release then generates PKGBUILD files for and use this very action to update aur/build-fs-tree and aur/build-fs-tree-bin.

strip-ansi-cli has a workflow that builds and uploads executables to GitHub Release then generates PKGBUILD files for and use this very action to update aur/strip-ansi and aur/strip-ansi-bin.

parallel-disk-usage has a workflow that builds and uploads executables to GitHub Release then generates PKGBUILD files for and use this very action to update aur/parallel-disk-usage and aur/parallel-disk-usage-bin.

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License

MIT © Hoàng Văn Khải