Properly apt-get install inn2 in a GitHub Action.
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| # Demonstrate how to properly `apt-get install inn2` in a GitHub Action. | |
| # Configure the inn2 instance so that other code can test interactions with the inn2 server. | |
| name: InterNetNews2 | |
| on: | |
| push: | |
| branches: [ main ] | |
| pull_request: | |
| branches: [ main ] | |
| workflow_dispatch: | |
| jobs: | |
| inn2: | |
| runs-on: ubuntu-24.04 | |
| steps: | |
| - uses: actions/checkout@v4 | |
| - name: cat "localhost.localdomain" > /etc/hostname | |
| run: | | |
| echo "localhost.localdomain" > hostname | |
| sudo mv hostname /etc/ | |
| cat /etc/hostname | |
| # The next commands usually pass but not always!!! | |
| - run: | | |
| sudo apt-get update -qq | |
| sudo apt-get install --yes inn2 | |
| # - run: cat /etc/news/inn.conf # Useful for debugging | |
| - run: systemctl status inn2 | |
| - uses: actions/setup-python@v5 | |
| with: | |
| python-version: 3.12 # nntplib was removed from the Standard Library in Python 3.13. | |
| - name: nntplib_demo | |
| shell: python | |
| run: | | |
| import nntplib # Removed from the Standard Library in Python 3.13. | |
| import pathlib | |
| with nntplib.NNTP("localhost", readermode=True) as nntp_server: | |
| print(f"{nntp_server = }") | |
| # print(f"{nntp_server.starttls() = }") # nntplib.NNTPTemporaryError: 401 MODE-READER | |
| print(f"{nntp_server.nntp_version = }") | |
| print(f"{nntp_server.nntp_implementation = }") | |
| print(f"{nntp_server.getwelcome() = }") | |
| print(f"{nntp_server.getcapabilities() = }") | |
| print(f"{nntp_server.list() = }") | |
| print("News group list:") | |
| print("\n".join( | |
| f"{i}. {group_info.group}" for i, group_info in enumerate(nntp_server.list()[1], 1) | |
| )) | |
| # Ensure the 'local.test' group has no articles. | |
| resp, count, first, last, name = nntp_server.group('local.test') | |
| print(f"Group '{name}' has {count} articles, range {first} to {last}.") | |
| # Post an article to the 'local.test' group. | |
| msg = pathlib.Path("contrib/inn_article_001.txt").read_text() | |
| # print(f"{msg = }") | |
| response = nntp_server.post(msg.encode("utf-8")) | |
| print(f"{response = }") | |
| # Verify that the article is there. | |
| resp, count, first, last, name = nntp_server.group('local.test') | |
| print(f"Group '{name}' has {count} articles, range {first} to {last}.") | |
| # Read the article. | |
| stat = nntp_server.stat() # last() and next() both fail | |
| # print(f"{stat = }") | |
| article = nntp_server.article(stat[2]) | |
| print(f"{article = }") | |
| # Print the lines of the article | |
| print("\n".join(line.decode("utf-8") for line in article[1].lines)) | |
| # Print the overview information | |
| resp, count, first, last, name = nntp_server.group('local.test') | |
| # print(resp, count, first, last, name) | |
| resp, overviews = nntp_server.over((first, last)) | |
| for id, over in overviews: | |
| print(id, nntplib.decode_header(over['subject'])) |