micronaut-projects / micronaut-projects/github-actions

GitHub Action Job can fail because of SUDO commands, in case Runners don't have SUDOER privilege

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Description

Hi,
In the case of self-hosted GitHub Actions runners, it may occur that SUDO commands are not made available for security reasons.

The graalvm/pre-build action uses 3 SUDO commands historically to mitigate storage issues (see: https://github.com/actions/virtual-environments/issues/709).

One could solve this small issue by ensuring the commands do not fail even in the case the SUDO commands are not available:

```
sudo -n apt-get clean || true
```

-n: would ensure no interactive prompt is requested (to pass the user password)

Thanks

ps: I'll provide a PR to address that one soon

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Research direction

Inspect the graalvm/pre-build action definitions and locate the three historical SUDO commands described in the issue. Confirm the workflow remains non-interactive and succeeds when the self-hosted runner lacks sudo access; done means all affected commands tolerate unavailable sudo without masking unrelated failures.

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Assessment

Tech stack
shell
Domain
ci-cd
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Activity status
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Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
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