GitHub Actions

Alpa provides two independent GitHub Actions that extend the functionality of the Alpa repository. If you want to use these features, just configure the .github directory in the repository and set up the correct Secrets.

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For sensitive data, such as a GitHub token or similar otherwise sensitive data, use GitHub Secrets!

Manage package requests for Alpa repository

This GitHub Action available here allows you to delete packages from the GitHub repository and also at the same time from the Copr repository and allows contributors who don’t have commit access to your repository to create new packages (but you have to explicitly enable this option in the .alpa.yaml configuration file under the allow_foreign_contributing field)

To set up this action properly, please follow instruction documented on Manage Alpa Package marketplace

Automatically update packages

This GitHub Action available from here is used to automatically update packages in the repository. In order for a package to update itself, you must fill in the autoupdate field in the metadata.yaml configuration file of the package.

Some useful links how to set up this action:

For the correct way to fill in the autoupdate field, see autoupdate.
To set up this action properly in your Alpa repository, please follow instruction documented on Autoupdate Alpa repository marketplace