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Act: Run your GitHub Actions locally

by gdubya on 8/22/21, 2:30 PM with 4 comments

  • by ThePadawan on 8/25/21, 12:32 PM

    YMMV:

    I find Act cool in principle, but whenever I try to use it locally on my Windows machine for any open source repository I haven't authored, it just doesn't work.

    That is to say, the repo authors use features like "sudo" in their jobs, which fails in Act (weirdly even using the larger base images - after those cloned for >1h), or they otherwise rely on the fact that the Github runners run natively on Linux.

    It's a real shame, too.

  • by unova on 8/23/21, 2:42 AM

    I had not seen it the previous time. Thanks for posting it.
  • by gdubya on 8/22/21, 2:42 PM

    Oh, this has been submitted before, sorry!