Cant run Gitea Actions from private Repo

[Schrolli91]

Description

I have a private Repo with an example action.
Its totaly clear to me, that the runner can not clone this private repo without authentication.
So i use the checkout action with a personal access token and clone the action repo to the runner.
After that i try to run the action as follwing:

  - name: Check out repository code
    uses: actions/checkout@v3
    with:
      token: ${{ secrets.token }}
  - name: Hello world action step
    id: hello
    uses: ./

But this does not work.
I have seen, that the Github docs show exactly this tooling for private repos.
https://docs.github.com/en/actions/using-workflows/workflow-syntax-for-github-actions#example-using-an-action-inside-a-different-private-repository-than-the-workflow

Also i cant find any clear instructions or documentation, how to deal with private repos in actions on gitea.

Gitea Version

1.20.0

Operating System

Debian Linux

How are you running Gitea?

Running via docker in an debian Linux hosted inside a VPS (LXC)

[wolfogre]

Have you set a right secret with token as the name?

Actually, you don't need to do this. The runner will get a temporary token to checkout the repo even it's private. Please try again without with:

  - name: Check out repository code
    uses: actions/checkout@v3

[Schrolli91]

secret is set and it can clone successful - without it cant (login on gitea instance is required).
The runner maybe can checkout the "repo under test". But what happens if i want to use a action, that is hosted in another private repo?

This is the job from the github hello world action (https://github.com/actions/hello-world-docker-action), hosted on my own gitea server.
The folowing code will fail:

jobs:
  hello_world_job:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    name: A job to say hello
    steps:
      - name: Check out repository code
        uses: actions/checkout@v3
      - name: Hello world action step
        id: hello
        uses: https://gitea..####/actions/hello-world-docker-action@main
        with:
          who-to-greet: 'test action'
      - name: Get the output time
        run: echo "The time was ${{ steps.hello.outputs.time }}"

[wolfogre]

So the point is that your runner failed with uses: https://gitea..####/actions/hello-world-docker-action@main.

Now it's duplicated with #25929

[Schrolli91]

Clone via Personal Access Token is working. This can show me the content of my repo:

steps:
  - name: Check out repository code
    uses: actions/checkout@v3
    with:
      token: ${{ secrets.token }}
  - name: show local dir
    run: ls -lah
  - name: Hello world action step
    id: hello
    uses: ./
    with:
      who-to-greet: 'Test Action'
  - name: Get the output time
    run: echo "The time was ${{ steps.hello.outputs.time }}"

So my main question is, why running a action from local cloned content is not possible on the runner?
Github can reference the local dir in the uses: directive. This seems not to work in Gitea - is this correct?

[wolfogre]

So my main question is, why running a action from local cloned content is not possible on the runner?

It is not supported yet.