Cannot find local action

[aeisenberg]

I have a job that looks like this:

name: "Integration Testing"

on: [push, pull_request]

jobs:

  mock-job:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
    - uses: actions/checkout@v2
    - name: Move action
      shell: bash
      run: |
        mkdir ../action
        mv * .github ../action/
        mv ../action/tests/multi-language-repo/{*,.github} .
    - uses: ./../action/init

When I run this on CI, there are no problems. But, when I run this through act -j mock-job I get this error:

[Integration Testing/testing-job]   ❌  Failure - ./../action/init
Error: open /Users/andrew.eisenberg/repos/action/init/action.yaml: no such file or directory

Note that the init/action.yml file exists at /Users/andrew.eisenberg/repos/my-repo/init/action.yaml.

It looks like github is running the entire job inside of the docker container, whereas act is running some parts outside of it. Notably, it is looking for the action files on the host filesystem and the rest seems to be in the docker container.

[aeisenberg]

My guess is that this line is incorrect:

act/pkg/runner/step_context.go

Line 52 in 64b8d2a

actionDir := filepath.Join(rc.Config.Workdir, step.Uses)

It is using the local filesystem path to get to the action. But, I think it should be the path inside of the docker image.

[benwinding]

Seems to work if you set the reference to the local action from the root of the git folder

Github workflow

jobs:
  test:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
    - name: Run test action
      uses: ./my-actions/action1

Local action

├── /.github
│    └── workflows
└── /my-actions
     └── /action1
         ├── action.yaml
         └── Dockerfile

[aeisenberg]

Thanks for your response, though if I do what you are suggesting, then I'm pretty sure that the workflow would fail when I run it on CI.

[github-actions]

Issue is stale and will be closed in 7 days unless there is new activity

[addisonklinke]

Still having trouble with this on act version 0.2.30. My repository has this structure

~/git/repository$ tree .github/
.github/
├── actions
│   └── setup-env.yaml
└── workflows
    └── pull_request_ci.yaml

Then within .github/workflows/pull_request_ci.yaml I try to use the action

jobs:
  example:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: ./.github/actions/setup-env.yaml

But triggering with act I still get

Failure - Main ./.github/actions/setup-env.yaml

I've tried both with and without the .yaml extension

[KnisterPeter]

You need to checkout your repository to use local actions.

[ChristopherHX]

Still having trouble with this on act version 0.2.30. My repository has this structure

~/git/repository$ tree .github/
.github/
├── actions
│   └── setup-env.yaml
└── workflows
    └── pull_request_ci.yaml

Then within .github/workflows/pull_request_ci.yaml I try to use the action

jobs:
  example:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: ./.github/actions/setup-env.yaml

But triggering with act I still get

Failure - Main ./.github/actions/setup-env.yaml

I've tried both with and without the .yaml extension

Both your repository structure and uses syntax are wrong, this wouldn't work on github.

You have to change it to

~/git/repository$ tree .github/
.github/
├── actions
│   └── setup-env
│        └── action.yaml
└── workflows
    └── pull_request_ci.yaml

jobs:
  example:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
      - uses: ./.github/actions/setup-env

EDIT you can also use both action.yaml and action.yml

[addisonklinke]

@KnisterPeter @ChristopherHX thanks for the tips! After adding actions/checkout and restructuring the local setup-env/action.yaml, it is working