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erezrokah merged 4 commits into from
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fix: Renovate cache permission errors in Docker container #515

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fix: fix Renovate cache permission errors in Docker container
erezrokah Mar 18, 2026
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fix: use chown to container uid instead of world-writable permissions
erezrokah Mar 18, 2026
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fix: use correct Renovate container uid 12021 for cache ownership
erezrokah Mar 18, 2026
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fix: fix Renovate cache permissions following official README example
erezrokah Mar 18, 2026
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22 changes: 14 additions & 8 deletions .github/workflows/renovate.yml
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Expand Up @@ -21,13 +21,20 @@ jobs:
steps:
- name: Checkout
uses: actions/checkout@v6
# - name: Renovate cache
# uses: actions/cache@v5
# with:
# path: ${{ github.workspace }}/.renovate-cache
# key: renovate-cache-${{ env.RENOVATE_VERSION }}-${{ github.run_id }}
# restore-keys: |
# renovate-cache-${{ env.RENOVATE_VERSION }}-
- name: Renovate cache
uses: actions/cache@v5
with:
path: /tmp/renovate/cache/renovate/repository
key: renovate-cache-${{ env.RENOVATE_VERSION }}-${{ github.run_id }}
restore-keys: |
renovate-cache-${{ env.RENOVATE_VERSION }}-
- name: Fix cache permissions
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See https://github.com/renovatebot/github-action?tab=readme-ov-file#persisting-the-repository-cache

run: |
# The permissions expected within renovate's docker container (uid 12021)
# are different than the ones given after the cache is restored.
# See https://github.com/renovatebot/github-action#persisting-the-repository-cache
sudo mkdir -p /tmp/renovate/cache/renovate/repository
sudo chown -R 12021:0 /tmp/renovate/
- name: Self-hosted Renovate
uses: renovatebot/github-action@v46.1.4
with:
Expand All @@ -37,5 +44,4 @@ jobs:
env:
RENOVATE_GITHUB_ACTOR: ${{ github.actor }}
RENOVATE_GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
# RENOVATE_CACHE_DIR: ${{ github.workspace }}/.renovate-cache
LOG_LEVEL: 'debug'
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