salesforce-devops-work-on-user-story-install-packages/

[giscus[bot]]

salesforce-devops-work-on-user-story-install-packages/

With sfdx-hardis, learn how to install a managed or unlocked package in your dev org and how to make the CI/CD pipeline install it in the other orgs

https://sfdx-hardis.cloudity.com/salesforce-devops-work-on-user-story-install-packages/

[salesforce-johnny]

I updated set installPackagesDuringCheckDeploy: true in .sfdx-hardis.yml, but the package was not installed during the check deploy step.

This warning appeared in the logs:

[sfdx-hardis] If you want deployment checks to automatically install packages, please define INSTALL_PACKAGES_DURING_CHECK_DEPLOY=true in ENV vars, or property installPackagesDuringCheckDeploy: true in .sfdx-hardis.yml

After seeing the warning, I updated the GH actions file as well. After doing this, the package was installed in the org and deployment simulation succeeded!

Just flagging since updating .sfdx-hardis.yml alone was not enough.

[nvuillam]

Thanks for flagging it, and for posting the warning. The check reads the property from config/.sfdx-hardis.yml, or from config/branches/.sfdx-hardis.<target branch>.yml, as they are in the Pull Request being checked. It must sit at the root of the file as installPackagesDuringCheckDeploy: true, without quotes. Which file did you put it in, and was that commit already in the Pull Request when the check ran? If so, it is a bug and I'll fix it. The env var you added works meanwhile.

[salesforce-johnny]

I added installPackagesDuringCheckDeploy: true to config/.sfdx-hardis.yml and committed it. It was the very first commit in my pull request, and I confirmed on GH that the file contained the correct value. Here's an excerpt from my actual config/.sfdx-hardis.yml

...
    VersionSettings: namespace
    installDuringDeployments: true
    installPackagesDuringCheckDeploy: true
    installOnScratchOrgs: false

[nvuillam]

Thanks for the excerpt, it shows the cause. installPackagesDuringCheckDeploy: true has the same indent as installDuringDeployments, so it is inside the entry of one package in the installedPackages list. sfdx-hardis only reads it at the root of the file, with no indent, like installedPackages: itself:

installPackagesDuringCheckDeploy: true
installedPackages:
  - Id: ...
    SubscriberPackageName: ...
    installDuringDeployments: true
    installOnScratchOrgs: false

Move the line there and you can remove the environment variable from the workflow. The documentation page did not say "at the root", it does now with the same example: #2437.

[salesforce-johnny]

Ah I see! Thank you that makes sense.