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Properly `apt-get install inn2` in a GitHub Action.
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Update atp-get_install_inn2.yaml
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72 changes: 72 additions & 0 deletions .github/workflows/atp-get_install_inn2.yaml
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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']))
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From: GitHub Actions <actions@github.com>
Newsgroups: local.test
Subject: inews test
Message-ID: <test.inews.1@inn2.packages.debian.org>

This is a test message posted to the local.test group.
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# The following additional files should be ignored. The file names are
# relative to the root of the tree. Shell wildcards are supported.
.github/workflows/atp-get_install_inn2.yaml
BOOTSTRAP
LIST.*
Makefile.global
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contrib/expirectl
contrib/findreadgroups
contrib/fixhist
contrib/inn_article_001.txt
contrib/innconfcheck
contrib/makeexpctl
contrib/makestorconf
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