GitHub Action for automatic updates of your packages in Alpa repository

Asynchronous action for updating Alpa repository through Packit <-> Copr integration with email notification. New updates are checked via Anytia.

Who is this action for

For anybody who want their own Alpa repository.

Use this action wisely

This action is mainly designed for cron jobs. In case of other triggers, such as push or similar, with a large Alpa repository (hundreds of packages) you can - and probably will - soon hit the monthly limit for GitHub Actions, which is 3000 minutes for the free version. Since updating a package via Copr is a time-consuming thing, even with the asynchronous implementation of this action, this limit will be exceeded very easily with triggers like push, etc.

Workflow yaml example

name: Autoupdate Alpa repository

on:
  schedule:
    # every month on 10th day of the month, at 04:04 AM
    - cron: "4 4 10 * *"

jobs:
  update:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
      - name: Checkout repo
        uses: actions/checkout@v3
        with:
          fetch-depth: 0

      - name: Autoupdate Alpa repository
        uses: alpa-team/autoupdate-alpa-repository@<tag_name>
        with:
          email-name: [email protected]
          smtp-address: smtp.water.xx
          email-password: ${{ secrets.ALPA_MAIL_BOT_PASSWORD }}
          debug: true

Options

email-name

required

This is email address of your bot account. You have to create email account to be notified of failed updates and I really recommend to create separate email for this because of security reasons.

smtp-address

required

smtp address of the mail provider. For gmail it is `smtp.gmail.com

email-password

required

Warning! Don't you dare to store here your password directly even if it is just dummy email! Use secrets to store the email password there.

debug

not required

Set to true if you want to see debug logs. Otherwise set to false.