Cannot run npm version before publishing

[strongishllama]

Hi all,

I've got this action that is triggered when a new tag is pushed to the repository. It works fine until I try and change the npm version based on the pushed tag before publishing.

name: CD

on:
  push:
    tags:
      - v*

jobs:
  publish:
    name: Publish package
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
      - uses: actions/setup-node@v1
        with:
          node-version: 12
          registry-url: https://npm.pkg.github.com/
          scope: '@strongishllama'
      - run: npm ci
      - run: npm config set git-tag-version=false # Works without these two lines.
      - run: npm version $(git describe --tags)   # Works without these two lines.
      - run: npm publish
        env:
          NODE_AUTH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

Then the action fails with the following error.

npm notice 
npm ERR! code E401
npm ERR! 401 Unauthorized - PUT https://npm.pkg.github.com/@strongishllama%2faws-email-service - Your request could not be authenticated by the GitHub Packages service. Please ensure your access token is valid and has the appropriate scopes configured.

I have a feeling it might be something to do with the encoding of the forward slash (%2f) between the scope and package name but I'm quite new to npm and actions so I can't really be sure.

Thanks in advance!

[dmitry-shibanov]

Hello @strongishllama. Thank you for your report. Sorry for the late response. Could you please provide public repository to reproduce the issue? We've tried from our side but it looks like everything works as expected.

[dmitry-shibanov]

Hello @strongishllama, just a gentle ping.

[strongishllama]

Hey @dmitry-shibanov, sorry I've been flat out this week. I'll give it a look tomorrow morning.

[strongishllama]

@dmitry-shibanov It appears to be working for me now as well. Thanks for getting back to me!

[Paulomart]

Hey, im having the same problem. Without a npm version xx command the publish works, with the npm version xx command it will fail. There these runs:

• without version: https://github.com/Oeffis/Oeffis/actions/runs/5689402550/job/15420850114?pr=198
• with version: https://github.com/Oeffis/Oeffis/actions/runs/5681462102/job/15397689966

Interestingly it works for the first time, if the version command is present. After that all publishes for the same package (with different versions) fail.