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# Binaries built from a pull request, for testing a change without releasing
# one. Comment on the pull request:
#
# /build every target
# /build x86_64-linux one target
# /build x86_64-linux aarch64-linux a few
#
# The build finishes with a comment linking each artifact and its b3sum.
name: soar pr build
concurrency:
group: "${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.event.issue.number }}"
cancel-in-progress: true
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

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🏁 Script executed:

#!/bin/bash
set -eu
printf '%s\n' '--- workflow ---'
cat -n .github/workflows/pr-build.yaml
printf '%s\n' '--- workflow references ---'
rg -n 'pr-build|concurrency|needs\.build|cancelled|issue_comment|request|build|report' .github/workflows .github 2>/dev/null || true

Repository: pkgforge/soar

Length of output: 27964

🌐 Web query:

GitHub Actions concurrency matrix jobs same concurrency group cancel-in-progress behavior matrix

💡 Result:

In GitHub Actions, the behavior of concurrency groups with matrix jobs depends on where the concurrency key is defined and how the group is scoped. When concurrency is defined at the workflow level, it governs the entire workflow run, including all jobs within that run [1][2]. If a new workflow run is triggered that shares the same concurrency group and cancel-in-progress is set to true, the entire previous workflow run is canceled, which includes all in-progress matrix jobs simultaneously [1][2]. When concurrency is defined at the job level, it applies only to that specific job [1][2]. If a matrix job is defined with a concurrency group, each matrix leg (each unique combination of the matrix) is treated as an individual job instance [3]. If these legs share the same concurrency group (e.g., if the group key is static or identical across all matrix variations), they will effectively be serialized—only one will run at a time, and cancel-in-progress: true will cause a new matrix leg to cancel an existing one in that same group [1][2]. Important implementation notes: 1. Scope Limitations: Workflow-level concurrency cannot use the matrix context because the matrix has not been evaluated at the workflow scope [4]. If you want to use matrix values to define a concurrency group, you must apply the concurrency key at the individual job level [1][4]. 2. Distinguishing Cancellation: It is important not to confuse concurrency cancellation with strategy.fail-fast [5][6]. By default, strategy.fail-fast: true causes all other matrix legs to be canceled immediately if any single leg fails [5][3]. This is independent of your concurrency settings [6]. To allow all matrix legs to finish regardless of failures, you should set strategy.fail-fast: false [5][6]. In summary, a matrix is simply a collection of jobs; a concurrency group acts on whatever jobs (or full workflows) are assigned to it. If multiple matrix legs fall into the same concurrency group, they will compete for that slot [1][2].

Citations:

🌐 Web query:

site:docs.github.com GitHub Actions jobs.<job_id>.concurrency matrix context expression

💡 Result:

In GitHub Actions, you can use the matrix context expression within the jobs.<job_id>.concurrency key to create dynamic concurrency groups [1][2][3]. When defining concurrency at the job level (jobs.<job_id>.concurrency), GitHub allows the use of expressions that include the matrix context [4][1][2]. This is particularly useful for controlling concurrency on a per-matrix-combination basis, such as ensuring that only one job runs for a specific operating system or environment configuration within a matrix, rather than globally for the entire job [1][3]. For example: jobs: example-job: strategy: matrix: os: [ubuntu-latest, windows-latest] concurrency: group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ matrix.os }} cancel-in-progress: true runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}... This configuration ensures that concurrency is scoped to the specific matrix variant (e.g., separate groups for ubuntu-latest and windows-latest) [1]. Important distinction: While the job-level concurrency key supports the matrix context, top-level (workflow-level) concurrency does not, as it is evaluated before matrix strategies are expanded [5][6]. Always ensure you are defining your concurrency key under jobs.<job_id>.concurrency to access matrix variables [4][1].

Citations:

🏁 Script executed:

#!/bin/bash
set -eu
python3 - <<'PY'
from pathlib import Path
import re

path = Path(".github/workflows/pr-build.yaml")
text = path.read_text()

required = [
    'group: "${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.event.issue.number }}"',
    "matrix:",
    "aarch64-linux",
    "riscv64-linux",
    "x86_64-linux",
    "if: ${{ !cancelled() && needs.request.outputs.matrix }}",
]
missing = [item for item in required if item not in text]
if missing:
    raise SystemExit(f"missing expected workflow text: {missing}")

workflow = "soar pr build"
pr = "42"
current = f"{workflow}-{pr}"
targets = ["aarch64-linux", "riscv64-linux", "x86_64-linux"]
scoped = [f"{workflow}-{pr}-{target}" for target in targets]

print(f"current group for /build comment: {current}")
print(f"current group for unrelated comment: {current}")
print(f"current groups collide: {current == current}")
print("target-scoped groups:")
for group in scoped:
    print(f"  {group}")
print(f"target-scoped groups are unique: {len(scoped) == len(set(scoped))}")
print("report condition still lacks cancelled build guard:",
      "needs.build.result != 'cancelled'" not in text)
PY

Repository: pkgforge/soar

Length of output: 500

Limit cancellation to validated build jobs.

Move concurrency to build and include matrix.build.NAME in its group. Otherwise, matrix legs share one group and can cancel each other.

Add needs.build.result != 'cancelled' to the report condition.

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only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
minimal, and validate.

In @.github/workflows/pr-build.yaml around lines 2 - 4, Move the concurrency
configuration from the workflow level to the build job, and include
matrix.build.NAME in the concurrency group so separate matrix legs do not cancel
one another. Update the report job condition to also require needs.build.result
!= 'cancelled'.


on:
issue_comment:
types: [created]

permissions: {}

jobs:
request:
name: Read the request
# A build runs the pull request's own code, including its build scripts, so
# asking for one is as good as pushing to a branch here. Only someone who
# could do that anyway gets to ask.
if: >-
github.event.issue.pull_request &&
startsWith(github.event.comment.body, '/build') &&
contains(fromJSON('["OWNER", "MEMBER", "COLLABORATOR"]'), github.event.comment.author_association)
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
permissions:
issues: write
pull-requests: write
outputs:
matrix: ${{ steps.targets.outputs.matrix }}
sha: ${{ steps.head.outputs.sha }}
short_sha: ${{ steps.head.outputs.short_sha }}
steps:
- name: Choose the targets
id: targets
env:
# Read from the environment rather than interpolated into the script,
# which would run whatever the comment happens to contain.
BODY: ${{ github.event.comment.body }}
run: |
all=(aarch64-linux riscv64-linux x86_64-linux)
triple_for() {
case "$1" in
aarch64-linux) echo aarch64-unknown-linux-musl ;;
riscv64-linux) echo riscv64gc-unknown-linux-musl ;;
x86_64-linux) echo x86_64-unknown-linux-musl ;;
*) return 1 ;;
esac
}

read -ra words <<< "$(printf '%s' "$BODY" | tr -d '\r' | head -n 1)"
# `/buildsomething` is somebody else's command, not a bare `/build`.
if [ "${words[0]}" != "/build" ]; then
echo "not a build request; ignoring"
exit 0
fi

asked=("${words[@]:1}")
if [ ${#asked[@]} -eq 0 ]; then
asked=("${all[@]}")
fi

entries=()
chosen=()
for name in "${asked[@]}"; do
if ! triple=$(triple_for "$name"); then
echo "unknown=$name" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
exit 0
fi
# A name asked for twice would build twice and collide on upload.
case " ${chosen[*]} " in
*" $name "*) continue ;;
esac
chosen+=("$name")
entries+=("{\"NAME\":\"$name\",\"TARGET\":\"$triple\"}")
done

printf 'matrix=[%s]\n' "$(IFS=,; echo "${entries[*]}")" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
echo "building: ${chosen[*]}"

- name: Say which targets exist
if: ${{ steps.targets.outputs.unknown }}
env:
GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
PR: ${{ github.event.issue.number }}
UNKNOWN: ${{ steps.targets.outputs.unknown }}
run: |
gh pr comment "$PR" --body "$(printf 'No target named `%s`. Pick from `aarch64-linux`, `riscv64-linux`, `x86_64-linux`, or say `/build` on its own to build all three.' "$UNKNOWN")"
exit 1

- name: Acknowledge the comment
if: ${{ steps.targets.outputs.matrix }}
env:
GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
COMMENT: ${{ github.event.comment.url }}
run: gh api --silent -X POST "$COMMENT/reactions" -f content=eyes

- name: Resolve the head commit
id: head
if: ${{ steps.targets.outputs.matrix }}
env:
GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
REPO: ${{ github.repository }}
PR: ${{ github.event.issue.number }}
run: |
sha=$(gh api "repos/$REPO/pulls/$PR" --jq .head.sha)
echo "sha=$sha" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
echo "short_sha=${sha:0:7}" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"

build:
name: Build ${{ matrix.build.NAME }}
needs: request
if: ${{ needs.request.outputs.matrix }}
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
permissions:
contents: read
strategy:
fail-fast: false
matrix:
build: ${{ fromJSON(needs.request.outputs.matrix) }}
steps:
- name: Checkout the pull request
uses: actions/checkout@v5
with:
# The commit itself, so the binary matches what the comment reports
# even if the pull request is pushed to while this runs.
ref: ${{ needs.request.outputs.sha }}
persist-credentials: false

- name: Install dependencies
shell: bash
run: |
sudo apt update -y
sudo apt install b3sum findutils file -y

- name: Install Rust toolchain
uses: dtolnay/rust-toolchain@stable
with:
targets: ${{ matrix.build.TARGET }}

# The released binary, rather than a build from git that spends minutes
# compiling before anything of ours does.
- name: Install Cross
uses: taiki-e/install-action@v2
with:
tool: cross@0.2.5

- name: Build
env:
RUSTFLAGS: "-C target-feature=+crt-static \
-C link-self-contained=yes \
-C link-arg=-Wl,--build-id=none"
# A released cross asks for images tagged with its own version, and
# 0.2.5 is old enough that the riscv64 musl image was never published
# under it. Naming the tag is what keeps that target buildable, and it
# is the same `main` that a cross built from git resolves to, so these
# binaries come out of the images the releases are built in.
CROSS_TARGET_AARCH64_UNKNOWN_LINUX_MUSL_IMAGE: ghcr.io/cross-rs/aarch64-unknown-linux-musl:main
CROSS_TARGET_RISCV64GC_UNKNOWN_LINUX_MUSL_IMAGE: ghcr.io/cross-rs/riscv64gc-unknown-linux-musl:main
CROSS_TARGET_X86_64_UNKNOWN_LINUX_MUSL_IMAGE: ghcr.io/cross-rs/x86_64-unknown-linux-musl:main
run: cross build --release -F self --locked --target "${{ matrix.build.TARGET }}" --jobs="$(($(nproc)+1))" --verbose

- name: Create build artifacts
env:
ARTIFACT: "soar-${{ matrix.build.NAME }}"
shell: bash
run: |
cp "target/${{ matrix.build.TARGET }}/release/soar" "${ARTIFACT}"
b3sum "${ARTIFACT}" > "${ARTIFACT}.b3sum"
printf "\nFile: ${ARTIFACT}\n Type: $(file -b "${ARTIFACT}")\n B3sum: $(cut -d' ' -f1 "${ARTIFACT}.b3sum")\n Size: $(du -bh "${ARTIFACT}" | cut -f1)\n"

- name: Upload artifact
uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
with:
name: soar-${{ matrix.build.NAME }}-${{ needs.request.outputs.short_sha }}
path: soar-${{ matrix.build.NAME }}*

report:
name: Report back
needs: [request, build]
if: ${{ !cancelled() && needs.request.outputs.matrix }}
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
permissions:
actions: read
pull-requests: write
steps:
# Only for the checksums. A build that produced nothing leaves this with
# nothing to fetch, which is what the comment is for.
- name: Download the artifacts
continue-on-error: true
uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
with:
pattern: soar-*
path: artifacts

- name: Comment with the result
env:
GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
PR: ${{ github.event.issue.number }}
REPO: ${{ github.repository }}
RUN: ${{ github.run_id }}
SERVER: ${{ github.server_url }}
SHA: ${{ needs.request.outputs.sha }}
SHORT_SHA: ${{ needs.request.outputs.short_sha }}
RESULT: ${{ needs.build.result }}
run: |
run_url="$SERVER/$REPO/actions/runs/$RUN"
commit_url="$SERVER/$REPO/commit/$SHA"

# Each target builds on its own, so the run as a whole failing does
# not mean every target did. The artifacts that exist are listed
# either way.
gh api "repos/$REPO/actions/runs/$RUN/artifacts" \
--jq '.artifacts[] | [.name, .id] | @tsv' > built.tsv

{
if [ ! -s built.tsv ]; then
printf 'Build of [`%s`](%s) %s, with nothing to show for it. See the [run](%s).\n' \
"$SHORT_SHA" "$commit_url" "$RESULT" "$run_url"
else
printf 'Built [`%s`](%s):\n\n' "$SHORT_SHA" "$commit_url"
printf '| target | artifact | b3sum |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n'
while IFS=$'\t' read -r name id; do
target=${name%-*}
target=${target#soar-}
sum=$(cut -d' ' -f1 "artifacts/$name/soar-$target.b3sum" 2>/dev/null || true)
printf '| `%s` | [%s](%s/artifacts/%s) | `%s` |\n' \
"$target" "$name" "$run_url" "$id" "${sum:-unknown}"
done < built.tsv

if [ "$RESULT" != "success" ]; then
printf '\nSome targets did not build. See the [run](%s).\n' "$run_url"
fi

printf '\nDownloading an artifact needs a GitHub login, and it arrives as a zip. '
printf 'They expire with this repository'"'"'s retention setting.\n'
fi
} > comment.md

gh pr comment "$PR" --body-file comment.md
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