Adapt quarto-actions/setup for use in GitHub Enterprise?

[ijlyttle]

I'm starting to experiment with quarto (and r-lib) actions in GitHub Enterprise (GHE). Things are mostly working, with a few snags here-and-there.

I have encountered a snag in the setup action:

quarto-actions/setup/action.yml

Lines 42 to 43 in f8db812

	# download the latest stable release
	gh release download --repo quarto-dev/quarto-cli --pattern ${{ format('*{0}', env.BUNDLE_EXT) }}

As I understand, gh assumes you are working with GitHub and that you have a valid GitHub token.

I can get around the first problem by adding the host:

gh release download --repo github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli --pattern ${{ format('*{0}', env.BUNDLE_EXT) }}

But the second problem remains: on GHE, GITHUB_TOKEN works on GHE - not GitHub proper.

I can work around this problem by specifying a version in my action workflow, e.g.:

      - name: Set up Quarto
        uses: <local-fork>/quarto-actions/setup@v2
        with:
          version: 1.0.38

Could there be a way to make the "stable release" method robust to use on GitHub Enterprise?

To be clear, this is not an urgent issue. The wheels of progress can turn slowly at big companies; we are a long way from rolling anything out internally.

Thanks!

[ijlyttle]

I think I see a more-general solution.

In a local copy of this action, I add the host (as described above):

gh release download --repo github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli --pattern ${{ format('*{0}', env.BUNDLE_EXT) }}

Then, I invoke the workflow:

      - name: Set up Quarto
        uses: <local-fork>/quarto-actions/setup@local-test
        env:
          GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GH_GITHUB_COM_TOKEN }}
        with:
         version: pre-release

This requires me to place a github.com PAT (no permissions needed) in my actions environment. I read about this workaround in the documentation for the setup-python action.

Would you consider a PR? It would include:

• adding github.com as a host qualifier in the action (this would have no effect on "regular" users).
• adding some documentation on the PAT workaround for Github Enterprise users.

Thanks!

[cscheid]

Yes, we'd love to have a workable story for GHE, thank you!