maintenance: report private GHCR packages that should be public - #64
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GitHub publishes every new container package as private, and there is no way to change that from CI -- the org package REST endpoints are list/get/delete/restore only, so visibility is a web-UI action, and it is one-way (public can never go back to private). Armbian's artifact names encode family and branch (os/kernel-meson-s4t7-current), so every new board family or kernel branch mints a brand-new package that starts private. That is not cosmetic: oras pulls anonymously, so a private artifact is a cache MISS for everyone building locally without ghcr credentials, and they silently fall back to a full rebuild. This job cannot fix that. It makes the drift visible: weekly, it lists the private packages under the watched prefixes (os/ by default, so internal namespaces like cache-kernel/* stay quiet) and keeps ONE issue up to date, closing it when the list empties. It also reports each package's linked repository. Packages pushed with a PAT are not auto-linked -- only GITHUB_TOKEN links them -- and an unlinked package inherits no repository access permissions. Adding org.opencontainers.image.source to the oras push in the build framework fixes that half separately. The permanent fix is to stop minting new package names by moving family/branch out of the package name and into the tag, at which point this workflow can be deleted. Signed-off-by: Igor Pecovnik <igor@armbian.com>
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WalkthroughThe new workflow runs weekly or through Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to Overlapping scheduled or manually triggered runs could create duplicate tracking issues when both update the package report at the same time. The workflow remains mergeable, but adding concurrency protection should be followed up to avoid this bounded operational issue. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5✅ Passed checks (5 passed)
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In @.github/workflows/maintenance-private-packages.yml:
- Line 146: Add a workflow-level concurrency configuration for the maintenance
workflow, using a stable group key and setting cancel-in-progress to false so
the active run completes while only the newest pending run is retained. Place it
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The tracking issue is located by title and created when missing, so two overlapping runs -- a manual dispatch landing on top of the scheduled one -- could both see "no issue" and both create one. The duplicate would never be cleaned up: the update path picks the first match and edits only that, so the second issue stays open forever and no later run touches it. cancel-in-progress: false rather than true, because killing a run mid-way could leave an issue created but not filled in. Signed-off-by: Igor Pecovnik <igor@armbian.com>
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TL;DR — new GHCR packages are private and cannot be made public from CI. This adds a weekly job that lists the private ones and keeps a single issue up to date, so the manual flip is a known chore instead of invisible drift.
Why there is no automatic fix
I checked before writing this:
So no workflow can flip these. This one only surfaces them.
Why it matters
artifact_oci_target_baseisghcr.io/armbian/os/and the artifact name encodes family and branch (os/kernel-meson-s4t7-current), so every new board family or kernel branch mints a brand-new package — private. Andoraspulls anonymously, so a private artifact is a cache miss for anyone building locally without ghcr credentials: they silently fall back to a full rebuild.What it does
Weekly (and on demand): lists private container packages under
WATCH_PREFIXES(os/by default, so deliberately-internal namespaces likecache-kernel/*stay quiet), then creates / edits / closes one tracking issue. Empty list closes it.It also shows each package's linked repository. Packages pushed with a PAT are not auto-linked — only
GITHUB_TOKENlinks them — and an unlinked package inherits no repository access permissions. Worth fixing separately by adding--annotation org.opencontainers.image.source=…to theoras pushin the build framework.Needs
secrets.ACCESS_TOKEN(read:packages) to list; issue writes use the builtinGITHUB_TOKEN. Fails loudly if the PAT is missing rather than reporting a false all-clear. Guarded withgithub.repository_owner == 'armbian'so a fork never opens issues.Verified
YAML parses; all three embedded scripts pass
bash -n; the prefix filter and table rendering were exercised against the real package names (cache-kernel/*correctly excluded,os/*kept), and the empty-list path returnscount=0and takes the close branch.Worth saying plainly
This manages the symptom. The permanent fix is to stop minting new package names — move family/branch out of the package name and into the tag (
os/kernel:meson-s4t7-current-<ver>rather thanos/kernel-meson-s4t7-current:<ver>). Armbian would then have ~8 packages total, each made public once, and no new package ever again. When that lands, delete this workflow.