stable: build base-files after the weekly run, then one repository update

[igorpecovnik]

Sequences the weekly stable pipeline as: build packages → build base-files → one repository update. Pairs with armbian/armbian.github.io#406, which teaches the repository update to actually ingest incoming/base-files/.

Why

The weekly stable build and the daily base-files build each ended by dispatching "Repository update" independently. Base-files are built at the current stable version, so right after a stable run bumps X.Y.Z → X.Y.(Z+1), the base-files in the repository still belong to the previous version until the next daily run catches up.

Change

file	change
complete-artifact-matrix.yml	new optional input repository_update (default "yes"), gating the existing dispatch step
build-base-files.yml	gains workflow_call so it can be chained; repository_update defaults to "yes"
build-all-stable.yml	repository_update: "no" on the build, plus a base-files job behind it

Net effect for the weekly run: one repository update instead of two, fired after the base-files for the new version exist.

Unchanged

• The weekly cron — it was already 0 18 * * 1 (Mondays 18:00 UTC).
• The daily base-files schedule and its own repository update: inputs.repository_update is undefined on schedule/dispatch runs, so it falls back to 'yes'.
• Every other caller (nightly, community, apps, standard-support) — the new input defaults to "yes".

Note

Base-files only reach a repository once armbian/armbian.github.io#406 merges; until then this chain fixes the ordering but the debs still stop at incoming/base-files/. Merging #406 first is the safer order.

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Walkthrough

The workflows now support a repository_update input. The stable build disables repository updates in its main build, then invokes the base-files workflow after success. The base-files workflow passes the setting to the artifact matrix. The artifact matrix dispatches repository updates only when images are skipped and repository_update is not "no".

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The workflow can run the base-files and repository-update path even when the main stable build is skipped, risking an incomplete or inconsistent repository update; it also passes more secrets than necessary into reusable build workflows. Merge should wait for the success gate to be corrected and the secret scope to be explicitly accepted or reduced.

Possibly related PRs

• armbian/ci#53: Introduced the build-base-files.yml workflow extended by these reusable-workflow changes.

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Description check	✅ Passed	The description accurately explains the workflow sequencing, input changes, preserved behavior, and dependency on the repository update pull request.
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[igorpecovnik]

Dropped the daily schedule (0 4 * * *) from build-base-files.yml — base-files now build only as the final stage of the weekly stable run, plus manual dispatch.

The daily run was not earning its keep: checkOci found everything already in OCI, so a typical run skipped 33 of 38 jobs and built nothing — but it still dispatched a full repository rebuild every morning (aptly republish of debs, complete wipe-and-rebuild of debs-beta, rsync to every mirror, redirector reload).

Updated shape of the weekly run:

build-all-stable (Mon 18:00 UTC)
  └─ build (packages)          repository_update: no
  └─ base-files                repository_update: yes  → one "Repository update"

workflow_dispatch is retained for regenerating base-files between stable builds.

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Actionable comments posted: 1

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.github/workflows/build-all-stable.yml (1)

40-40: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🔵 Trivial | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Limit inherited secrets at reusable-workflow boundaries.

secrets: inherit passes all caller secrets to both reusable workflows. build-base-files.yml then inherits them again when it calls complete-artifact-matrix.yml on Line 70. That workflow checks out repositories and runs build commands. If a checked-out ref is not fully trusted, unrelated secrets can be exposed. GitHub documents that secrets: inherit forwards caller secrets to the called workflow. (docs.github.com)

Pass an explicit allowlist of required secrets at each boundary.

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In @.github/workflows/build-all-stable.yml at line 40, Replace secrets: inherit
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In @.github/workflows/build-all-stable.yml:
- Around line 47-48: Update the base-files job condition to require
needs.build.result == 'success' in addition to the existing failure and
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In @.github/workflows/build-all-stable.yml:
- Line 40: Replace secrets: inherit in the reusable workflow calls with explicit
mappings for only the secrets required by build-base-files.yml and
complete-artifact-matrix.yml, and apply the same allowlist at each nested
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[igorpecovnik]

Valid finding, fixed.

-    if: ${{ !failure() && !cancelled() }}
+    if: ${{ needs.build.result == 'success' }}

The subtlety is why it mattered: !failure() and !cancelled() are status-check functions, and using one overrides the default gate that a job with needs runs only when those needs succeeded. So the old condition covered failure and cancellation but not skipped — and a skipped build would still have run base-files, which is the job that dispatches the repository update. A stable build that never happened would have triggered a repository rebuild.

needs.build.result == 'success' is not a status function, so the implicit gate stays in force as well.