Provide rclone/setup-rclone action to setup rclone on the runner

[kunaltyagi]

What problem are you are trying to solve?

rclone already provides releases on github. However, using rclone on a runner requires manually setting it up. There are setup actions for several tools which make it easy, but no official action for rclone.

How do you think rclone should be changed to solve that?

Hooking an action like https://github.com/robinraju/release-downloader with installation and config creation will allow a nice official experience without worrying much about auditing action code.

rclone already uses github actions for internal use, so exposing an action interface might not be that difficult to maintain in future.

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[ncw]

Release downloader looks very useful.

It doesn't appear to have support for downloading different released depending on the architecture of the github runner though so the config would be a bit messy as you'd need a different one for all the different runner types (linux/windows/macos amd64/macos arm64)

If we could find an action which can download rclone I'd be happy to put config for it in the install instructions.

There do appear to be some setup rclone actions - maybe we could persuade one of these to move their repo to the rclone org and become the official action?

[kunaltyagi]

Persuading someone might be a good idea. The sole reason for me creating this issues is that there are so many of them (and more if you search on github and not the marketplace)

[milliewalky]

@ncw
Mine is admittedly quite robust: https://github.com/milliewalky/setup-rclone. It doesn’t support every os|arch configuration for which rclone has been built, but it should suffice for most GitHub-hosted runners and likely the majority of self-hosted runners as well.

[AnimMouse]

I nominate my AnimMouse/setup-rclone action. It supports all OS and architecture configurations, can get Rclone config from GitHub secrets, can do a config-less operation, can use a service account file, can automatically update the tokens in GitHub secrets, and supports caching the binaries, making installation at 1 to 2 seconds if cached.