fix: improve permission error for provenance#6226
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Improves the error message returned when a user attempts to generate a provenance statement on publish but has not set the correct perissions in the GitHub Actions workflow. Signed-off-by: Brian DeHamer <bdehamer@github.com>
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| 'process.env': { | ||
| CI: false, | ||
| GITHUB_ACTIONS: false, | ||
| GITHUB_ACTIONS: undefined, |
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Turns out that setting this to false still causes ciInfo.name to evaluate to "GITHUB_ACTIONS". To properly simulate NOT running in GitHub Actions, this needs to be undefined.
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ah yes, I guess it would be very surprising if this env var was set to anything on some other platform?
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Improves the error message returned when a user attempts to generate a provenance statement on publish but has not set the correct perissions in the GitHub Actions workflow.
Improves the error messaging if the user attempts to publish a package w/ provenance but has NOT set the necessary token permissions to create an OIDC token.
Currently, if the user omits the
id-token: writepermission, the error message reads:This is potentially confusing given that it may actually be running in GitHub Actions, just with incorrect permissions.
This change separates the
CI == 'GitHub Actions'check from theACTIONS_ID_TOKEN_REQUEST_URLcheck so we can provide more specific error messages in the two cases.The new error message reads: