azd package requires an environment name

[aaronpowell]

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Output from azd version
Run azd version and copy and paste the output here:

azd version 1.5.1 (commit 3856d1e98281683b8d112e222c0a7c7b3e148e96)

Describe the bug
I want to use azd package as a "smoke test" in CI to ensure that the packages can be successfully built on each commit/push to a branch.

I've created a workflow like so:

name: azd package

on:
  push:
    branches: ["main"]
  pull_request:
    branches: ["main", "feature/*"]

jobs:
  package:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
      - name: Checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v3

      - name: Install azd
        uses: Azure/setup-azd@v0.1.0

      - name: Package with azd
        run: azd package

But it errors when running because there's not environment name set, as showing by the repeated log message:

Enter a new environment name: environment name '' is invalid (it should contain only alphanumeric characters and hyphens)

Also, it keeps attempting to get the environment name, so I either have to kill the job or wait for it to time out. Here's an example run.

To Reproduce

• Create a GitHub Actions workflow as above
• Push and run
• See the logs for GitHub Actions.

Expected behavior
Since I'm not deploying, I shouldn't need an environment name to run azd package.

Environment
GitHub Actions

[rajeshkamal5050]

Seems a duplicate of issue #2857

Can you try the following workaround? #2857 (comment)

cc @wbreza

[aaronpowell]

Ah damn, I tried to search but seems like I was unsuccessful in my efforts 🤣

That workaround is what I've done in our situation too.

[rajeshkamal5050]

Marking as duplicate of #2857