APT eatmydata for GitHub Actions

A GitHub Action to speed up package installation using eatmydata.

Works on Ubuntu, Debian, and other Debian derivatives.

Usage

jobs:
  myjob: 
    steps:
    - uses: firebuild/apt-eatmydata-action@v1
    ...

How it works

The action installs eatmydata and configures APT to wrap dpkg calls with eatmydata.

This way dpkg does not perform fsync() calls which would slow down package installation significantly.

To speed up the build as well, you may want to take a look at the Firebuild Action.