GH Action Errors due to customization being run as a workflow

[andrewdavidmackenzie]

I have customized my GH Action for releases following your great docs, here:
https://github.com/andrewdavidmackenzie/pigg/blob/master/.github/workflows/release.yml

That references this custom install yaml to install linkers for cross compiling
https://github.com/andrewdavidmackenzie/pigg/blob/master/.github/workflows/install-arm-linkers.yml

It all works in release, but GH reports errors as it tries to run that file as a workflow at other times.

Here is an example GH Action run:
https://github.com/andrewdavidmackenzie/pigg/actions/runs/11083791483

How can I avoid GH Actions doing that and getting those false error reports?

[KtorZ]

The path to the custom steps file specified in the workspace configuration is relative to the .github/workflows directory. So, move the custom steps up out of the workflows directory to prevent Github from interpreting as a workflow configuration. For example, put it in the parent directory. As such:

├─ .github 
│  ├── install-arm-linkers.yml
│  └── workflows
│      └── release.yml
└── Cargo.toml

And in your Cargo.toml, add:

github-build-setup = "../install-arm-linkers.yml"

Also don't forget:

1. You need cargo-dist >= 0.20.0 to enable this feature.
2. Re-run cargo dist init once those steps are complete to re-generate the release.yml file and includes the custom steps.

[andrewdavidmackenzie]

makes sense!
Thanks very much.