update any cached registries (#140)

* update any cached registries

* add comment

* handle really old julia versions

* Update action.yml

Co-authored-by: Curtis Vogt <curtis.vogt@gmail.com>

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Co-authored-by: Curtis Vogt <curtis.vogt@gmail.com>

.github/workflows/CI.yml

@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ jobs:
     env:
       JULIA_DEPOT_PATH: /tmp/julia-depot
     steps:
-    - uses: actions/checkout@a5ac7e51b41094c92402da3b24376905380afc29
+    - uses: actions/checkout@692973e3d937129bcbf40652eb9f2f61becf3332
     - name: Set cache-name
       id: cache-name
       shell: bash
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ jobs:
     env:
       JULIA_DEPOT_PATH: /tmp/julia-depot
     steps:
-    - uses: actions/checkout@a5ac7e51b41094c92402da3b24376905380afc29
+    - uses: actions/checkout@692973e3d937129bcbf40652eb9f2f61becf3332
     - uses: julia-actions/setup-julia@v2
       with:
         version: ${{ matrix.version }}
@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ jobs:
     outputs:
       cache-name: ${{ steps.cache-name.outputs.cache-name }}
     steps:
-    - uses: actions/checkout@a5ac7e51b41094c92402da3b24376905380afc29
+    - uses: actions/checkout@692973e3d937129bcbf40652eb9f2f61becf3332
     - name: Set cache-name
       id: cache-name
       run: |
@@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ jobs:
     needs: test-save-nomatrix
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
-    - uses: actions/checkout@a5ac7e51b41094c92402da3b24376905380afc29
+    - uses: actions/checkout@692973e3d937129bcbf40652eb9f2f61becf3332
     - name: Restore cache
       id: cache
       uses: ./
@@ -233,7 +233,7 @@ jobs:
     outputs:
       cache-name: ${{ steps.cache-name.outputs.cache-name }}
     steps:
-    - uses: actions/checkout@a5ac7e51b41094c92402da3b24376905380afc29
+    - uses: actions/checkout@692973e3d937129bcbf40652eb9f2f61becf3332
     - name: Set cache-name
       id: cache-name
       run: |
@@ -259,7 +259,7 @@ jobs:
     needs: test-save-cloned-registry
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
-    - uses: actions/checkout@a5ac7e51b41094c92402da3b24376905380afc29
+    - uses: actions/checkout@692973e3d937129bcbf40652eb9f2f61becf3332
     - name: Add General registry clone
       shell: julia --color=yes {0}
       run: |

action.yml

@@ -132,6 +132,22 @@ runs:
         du -shc ${{ steps.paths.outputs.depot }}/* || true
       shell: bash
 
+    # issue https://github.com/julia-actions/cache/issues/110
+    # Pkg may not run `Registry.update()` if a manifest exists, which may exist because of a
+    # `Pkg.dev` call or because one is added to the repo. So be safe and update cached registries here.
+    # Older (~v1.0) versions of julia that don't have `Pkg.Registry.update()` seem to always update registries in
+    # Pkg operations. So this is only necessary for newer julia versions.
+    - name: Update any cached registries
+      if: ${{ inputs.cache-registries == 'true' }}
+      run: |
+        if [ -d "${{ steps.paths.outputs.depot }}/registries" ] && [ -n "$(ls -A "${{ steps.paths.outputs.depot }}/registries")" ]; then
+          echo "Registries directory exists and is non-empty. Updating any registries"
+          julia -e "import Pkg; isdefined(Pkg, :Registry) && Pkg.Registry.update();"
+        else
+          echo "Registries directory does not exist or is empty. Skipping registry update"
+        fi
+      shell: bash
+
     # GitHub actions cache entries are immutable and cannot be updated. In order to have both the Julia
     # depot cache be up-to-date and avoid storing redundant cache entries we'll manually cleanup old
     # cache entries before the new cache is saved. However, we need to be careful with our manual