I m looking at the `init pants` GH action and get slightly c

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I m looking at the `init pants` GH action and get slightly confused wrgt remote caching

curved-television-6568 · Answer

gt `cache lmdb store` Pass the string ` true ` to enable caching pants lmdb store in a GHA cache By default this action does NOT cache the `lmdb store` This is a very coarse cache that can grow unbounded So it is very likely to hit GitHub s 10GB per repo max for action caches If you enable this you need another process or workflow to manage discarding older GHA caches or minimizing the cache size as described in the Use the default if using This suggests that remote caching does work while gt This action does not use any secrets at this point It might need some once it supports projects that use remote caching Seems to say it doesn t shrug

proud-dentist-22844 · Answer

The action itself doesn t go anything with remote caching I expect it to work But the action needs some input parameters or secrets to setup remote caching then it will need to add them I have not used remote caching Is there something this action should do to help set up remote caching If not it should be supported just as any other setting in pants toml

curved-television-6568 · Answer

guess it will just work then in which case the secrets note is misleading

proud-dentist-22844 · Answer

I added that note because I m not sure if secrets or something is required for remote caching

fast-nail-55400 · Answer

The repository owner would need to be running or have access to a deployed REAPI compatible cache server

fast-nail-55400 · Answer

Secrets would be needed for auth in some cases e g Toolchain s cache offering although Toolchain has a Pants plugin which handles those details

curved-television-6568 · Answer

yea I don t think there s anything required of `init pants` for that we ll see how far I get with this slightly smiling face

proud-dentist-22844 · Answer

Benjy wrote the note about caching lmbd store

proud-dentist-22844 · Answer

Feel free to drop my comment stuck out tongue

curved-television-6568 · Answer

ok good just the phrasing that didn t come across clearly so I think the comment is fine would only tweak it slightly wink

curved-television-6568 · Answer

OK so it seems there s no issues with remote execution and the `init pants` action I do however get this on the Post action phase of the run ```Warning Path Validation Error Path s specified in the action for caching do es not exist hence no cache is being saved ``` I think it is for the Cache Pants named caches step This is running in a container so user home etc tend to be wonky e g root

curved-television-6568 · Answer

huh looking at the pants config seems it s running with ` named caches dir cache pants named caches ` wouldn t have expected a relative path here

curved-television-6568 · Answer

aahh nvm someone put that relative path in our `pants ci toml` file stuck out tongue winking eye

curved-television-6568 · Answer

conclusion being that the cache paths used in the `init pants` action assumes default paths rather than looking at the configuration