Trigger action on registry_package published

Actions
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I want to trigger a “Deploy” action whenever my app’s Docker image is pushed to my Gitea installation via some other action (or manual push to Docker registry - managed as “Packages” in the same Gitea instance).

I can’t seem to get Gitea’s trigger event “registry_package” of type “published” to work.

Snippets from my YAML file:

# this will NOT be triggered
name: Deploy
on:
  registry_package:
    types:
      - published
...

# this will be triggered on push, and I am able to pull the Docker image for deployment
name: Deploy
on:
  push:
...

Current setup:

  • Gitea v1.21.11.
  • The Gitea action si in a private repo, in a private org.
  • I have a “Build” Gitea action that runs on push. It is working, and as part of this action, it push my app’s Docker image to my Gitea Docker registry.
  • Confirmed the docker image is pushed to my Gitea as mygitea.com/my-org/my-app/my-app-test:latest. It is viewable in the organisation’s “Packages” tab.
  • I did not “Link this package to a repository”.

Q1: How to get “registry_package” to work?

Q2: If Q1 can be solved, how to run only if the deployed package name matches? (I saw some Github action examples using if: ${{ github.event.package.name == 'my-app/my-app-test' }}). A working Gitea action to demonstrate this use case would be awesome…or at least pointers to figure this out.

Thanks for reading and hope to get some help on this.

2

For those trying to achieve similar things, this is my current findings:

  • Action event registry_package will only trigger when the package (the published Docker container in my case) is linked to the repository (via the “Link this package to a repository” feature).

Thinking about this, it does make sense because we probably don’t want our actions to get triggered every time a package is published (i.e. by other repositories). This means we don’t need to filter (conditional run) the action based on the ${{github.event.package.name}} if we only have 1 package for the repo.