Fast cargo install action

NOTE: This is a fork of https://github.com/dtolnay/install to include packages needed by Stackable. Thank you, David for the initial work on this.

This GitHub Action installs a Rust crate using precompiled signed binaries built on GitHub and hosted as GitHub release artifacts.

Please note that this action is meant for use by Stackable only, and we do not plan on adding crates that we do not use ourselves.

Check the releases for a list of all crates that are usable with this action.

If you need other crates fork this repository and add your own crates.

Example workflow

name: test suite
on: [push, pull_request]

jobs:
  expand:
    name: cargo udeps
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: stackabletech/cargo-install-action@main
        with:
          crate: cargo-udeps
      - run: cargo udeps --help

Alternatively:

name: test suite
on: [push, pull_request]

jobs:
  expand:
    name: cargo udeps
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: stackabletech/cargo-install-action@cargo-udeps
      - run: cargo udeps --help

Inputs

Name	Required	Description
crate	✓	Name of crate as published to crates.io
bin		Name of binary; default = same as crate name

Development

Getting started

You need a GPG key without a passphrase!

Here's how you can remove a passphrase from an existing key: https://superuser.com/questions/1360324/gpg-remove-passphrase

gpg --full-generate-key
gpg --output private.gpg --armor --export-secret-key github.com/stackabletech/cargo-install-action`
gpg --output signing-key.asc --armor --export github.com/stackabletech/cargo-install-action

Add the private key to a secret in the GitHub repository.

Updating

Unless you're setting up an entirely new branch, work in the main branch. When you make changes you can later run the scripts/rebase.sh script with the name of a branch to update.

For example:

scripts/rebase.sh cargo-udeps

Releasing a new version of a tool

To release a new version go to the Actions tab and select the tool to build and click on Run workflow.

License

The scripts and documentation in this project are released under the MIT License.