Are there any usage examples of chezmoi on CI?

[danielo515]

As ridiculous it may sound, I want to add some testing to my dotfiles, and because I use chezmoi to manage them, then I want to use chezmoi on CI 😄
I tried some naive approaches, but, despite being able to just install chezmoi right, I can't properly execute it. Are any examples out there of people using chezmoi during CI?

[twpayne]

I tried some naive approaches, but, despite being able to just install chezmoi right, I can't properly execute it.

You need to provide more information than just "I can't properly execute it".

[danielo515]

yeah, sorry for my vague question. I was just thinking if someone that is already doing it could chime in and just explain their way. It is probably some issue about persistence between job steps, the reported install chezmoi path is not then usable in the next steps: https://github.com/danielo515/dotfiles/actions/runs/3703182094/jobs/6274320843#step:6:8

[twpayne]

You install chezmoi in ./bin/chezmoi and then try to run it from ./.bin/chezmoi. Did you even read the error message?

[danielo515]

Did you even read the error message?

Yes, of course I did, sorry if it looks like I didn't put care on this. I'm a bit forgetful and this kind of little details usually don't caught my eye. I think I already fixed that detail

I ensured to install chezmoi at a know location, but I still can't get it work between steps:

      - name: Install chezmoi
        run: sh -c "$(curl -fsLS chezmoi.io/get)" -- -b $HOME/bin init --source $GITHUB_WORKSPACE
      - name: Apply my config
        timeout-minutes: 1
        run: $HOME/bin/chezmoi apply 

The reported install location seems correct:

info found version 2.27.3 for latest/linux/amd64
info installed /home/runner/bin/chezmoi

And it seems to run now, but is not able to find the config:

chezmoi: stat /home/runner/.local/share/chezmoi: no such file or directory

Not sure if that is the install script is not able to handle bot the -b and flag the init command, if the github filesystem is not persisting it or something else.

I just want to emphasise that I was just looking for examples of other people using chezmoi in this scenario, it was not my intention to ask anyone to debug my specific configuration.

[danielo515]

I think I got it working like this (reduced version):

name: CI-dots
env:
  GITHUB_USERNAME: "${{ github.actor }}"
on:
  push:
    branches:
      - master
jobs:
  unixish:
    name: ${{ matrix.os }} ${{ matrix.runner }}
    strategy:
      fail-fast: false
      matrix:
        include:
          - runner: ubuntu-20.04
            os: linux
          - runner: macos-12
            os: osx
    runs-on: ${{ matrix.runner }}
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
      - name: Install chezmoi
        run: |
          sh -c "$(curl -fsLS chezmoi.io/get)" -- -b $HOME/bin 
      - name: Apply my config
        timeout-minutes: 1
        run: |
          $HOME/bin/chezmoi init --source $GITHUB_USERNAME --apply