Move away from Balto

[thekid]

Balto software repos are shutting down
Announced 26.08.2025

• Generic runner distribution
• Debian packages
• Clean up .github/workflows directory
• Debian repository - see below

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This might be helpful:

• https://gist.github.com/ikbelkirasan/57e60bbcaecd0bd5cf2cbf441e744159
• https://jon.sprig.gs/blog/post/2835
• https://dario.griffo.io/posts/ultimate-guide-debian-repository-hosting
• https://assafmo.github.io/2019/05/02/ppa-repo-hosted-on-github.html

[thekid]

This causes tests to fail: https://github.com/xp-forge/markdown/actions/runs/17492837584/job/49686428677

[thekid]

First https://github.com/xp-runners/reference/actions/runs/17505005736 created these downloads:

Downloads
-rw-r--r-- 1 runner docker  7151 Sep  5 21:36 /home/runner/work/reference/reference/target/setup-9.2.0.sh
-rw-r--r-- 1 runner docker 12577 Sep  5 21:36 /home/runner/work/reference/reference/target/xp-run-9.2.0.sh
-rw-r--r-- 1 runner docker 73515 Sep  5 21:36 /home/runner/work/reference/reference/target/xp-runners_9.2.0.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 runner docker 77234 Sep  5 21:36 /home/runner/work/reference/reference/target/xp-runners_9.2.0.zip

However, all artifacts were stored as .zip files which is unnecessary. This is documented in the upload-artifact action:

When an Artifact is uploaded, all the files are assembled into an immutable Zip archive. There is currently no way to download artifacts in a format other than a Zip or to download individual artifact contents.

https://github.com/actions/upload-artifact?tab=readme-ov-file#zip-archives

[thekid]

Second https://github.com/xp-runners/reference/actions/runs/17505270379 failed:

Seems we need to create a release before being able to upload to it

[thekid]

Third https://github.com/xp-runners/reference/actions/runs/17505457028 created the tag and uploaded the files correctly:

[thekid]

Solution for GitHub actions:

diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index 5a6a591..28c0df1 100755
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ jobs:
 
     - name: Install dependencies
       run: >
-        curl -sSL https://baltocdn.com/xp-framework/xp-runners/distribution/downloads/e/entrypoint/xp-run-8.8.0.sh > xp-run &&
+        curl -sSL https://github.com/xp-runners/reference/releases/download/v9.2.0/xp-run-9.2.0.sh > xp-run &&
         composer install --prefer-dist --no-scripts &&
         echo "vendor/autoload.php" > composer.pth
 

[thekid]

$ grep 'https://baltocdn.com/xp-framework' */.github/workflows/* | wc -l
79

$ for f in $(ls -1 */.github/workflows/ci.yml); do echo $f ; sed -i -E 's#https://balto[^ ]+#https://github.com/xp-runners/reference/releases/download/v9.2.0/xp-run-9.2.0.sh#g' $f ; done

🙃

[thekid]

This causes tests to fail: https://github.com/xp-forge/markdown/actions/runs/17492837584/job/49686428677

Fixed in xp-forge/markdown@4e9977b