Github Action doesn't find Poetry · Issue #723 · python-semantic-release/python-semantic-release · GitHub

The problem

I am trying to use the semantic release GitHub Action. My build step is poetry build, and I am using snok/install-poetry@v1 (via packetcoders/action-setup-cache-python-poetry@main) to install Poetry. This fails with

🛠 Running build command: poetry build
bash: line 1: poetry: command not found

Presumably because semantic-release is running inside a Docker container without access to the previously installed Poetry.

As a side note, my builds are incredibly slow because the two semantic-release actions must be built from dockerfiles each time. Those two build steps take almost a minute each (compared to the cached install of Python and Poetry which takes only 10 seconds total).

Expected behavior

My project is built correctly.

Environment

Ubuntu github runner with Python 3.11 and Poetry 1.6.1, but those are probably not relevant due to containerization.
The workflow looks like this:

      - name: Checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v4
        with:
          fetch-depth: 0
      - name: "Setup Python, Poetry and Dependencies"
        uses: packetcoders/action-setup-cache-python-poetry@main
        with:
          python-version: 3.11
          poetry-version: 1.6.1
      - name: Python Semantic Release
        id: release
        uses: python-semantic-release/python-semantic-release@v8.0.0
        with:
          github_token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
          prerelease: "true"

      - name: Publish package distributions to GitHub Releases
        uses: python-semantic-release/upload-to-gh-release@main
        if: steps.release.outputs.released == 'true'
        with:
          github_token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

Configuration

[build-system]
requires = [ "poetry-core" ]
build-backend = "poetry.core.masonry.api"

[tool.semantic_release]
version_toml = [ "pyproject.toml:tool.poetry.version" ]
build_command = "poetry build"
version_source = "tag"
commit_version_number = true
commit_message = "chore(release): v{version} [skip ci]"

Hello 👋

You are right, this is not working due to containerization. This should be working fine if PR #692 is merged.

A possible workaround is to install poetry in the build-command ('pip install poetry; poetry install; poetry build') but it is ugly.

Hello everyone 👋🏽,

I'm facing a similar issue. More specifically, poetry fails to detect the python version passed to python-semantic-release:

The currently activated Python version 3.10.13 is not supported by the project (^3.11).
Trying to find and use a compatible version. 

Poetry was unable to find a compatible version. If you have one, you can explicitly use it via the "env use" command.
error: Encountered a bad command exit code!
error: 
error: Command: 'pip install poetry && poetry build'

even though setup python installs the appropriate version of python:

2023-11-25T08:18:28.1280144Z Run relekang/python-semantic-release@v7.34.6
2023-11-25T08:18:28.1280994Z with:
2023-11-25T08:18:28.1282057Z   github_token: ***
2023-11-25T08:18:28.1282575Z   directory: .
2023-11-25T08:18:28.1283193Z env:
2023-11-25T08:18:28.1284066Z   pythonLocation: /home/github/actions-runner/_work/_tool/Python/3.11.6/x64
2023-11-25T08:18:28.1285513Z   PKG_CONFIG_PATH: /home/github/actions-runner/_work/_tool/Python/3.11.6/x64/lib/pkgconfig
2023-11-25T08:18:28.1286955Z   Python_ROOT_DIR: /home/github/actions-runner/_work/_tool/Python/3.11.6/x64
2023-11-25T08:18:28.1288182Z   Python2_ROOT_DIR: /home/github/actions-runner/_work/_tool/Python/3.11.6/x64
2023-11-25T08:18:28.1289495Z   Python3_ROOT_DIR: /home/github/actions-runner/_work/_tool/Python/3.11.6/x64
2023-11-25T08:18:28.1290870Z   LD_LIBRARY_PATH: /home/github/actions-runner/_work/_tool/Python/3.11.6/x64/lib

Edit: I have already tried instralling poetry using python -m pip install poetry instead of simply running pip install poetry

Could you please assist me ? Thanks!

Hello @billsioros 👋

I think your configuration don't work because the Python interpreter used in the action is python3.10, the default in debian based environment. I think the simplest fix is to allow python3.10 in your pyproject.toml.

Else you may use the specific version 8.3.0 of python-semantic-release that don't work with a docker action but with a composite action. You should still need to install python3.11 in the job step environment.

I hope this help !

Hello @zckv 👋🏽

Thank you for the prompt response! I resolved the issues by editing pyproject.toml for the time being and I'll consider migrating to v8 in the near future.

Thanks!

You are right, this is not working due to containerization. This should be working fine if PR #692 is merged.

So after following the discussion rabbit hole it seems that this is still not fixed (#741)?
Or did I miss something and there is a way to use poetry without having to do the install hack

Hello @Yelinz 👋

This issue is still not fixed in the master branch. However, the specific tag v8.3.0 use the change in PR #692. Personally I use

    - uses: python-semantic-release/python-semantic-release@v8.3.0

to have access to the environment.

I am too lazy (for now) to make a script compatible for every gitlab-runner available and complete #741. To use the PSR master branch, the hack should still work, I think.

Updated semantic release build command due to some issues with contai…

ci: revert python-semantic-release

ci: revert python-semantic-release (#78)

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