Meilisearch: download_latest script randomly fails on GH actions with macos-latest

[curquiza]

In this really specific case:

• in CI
• using macos-latest

The script randomly fails because the download_latest.sh script is not able to identify the latest version.

This fix would be useful for the meilsearch-swift CI.

[curquiza]

A temporary solution is:

name: MeiliSearch

on: push

jobs:
  download_latest:
    name: Download MeiliSearch latest
    runs-on: macos-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
      - run: brew update && brew install meilisearch
      - run: meilisearch --no-analytics=true &
      - run: curl 'http://localhost:7700/version' #example

[Kerollmops]

Hum... I am not sure what happens here? Could you tell me more about that, please?

[curquiza]

The download_script.sh does not work every time (so fails randomly) in this GH Action configuration (notice the macos-latest usage):

name: MeiliSearch

on: push

jobs:
  download_latest:
    name: Download MeiliSearch latest
    runs-on: macos-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
      - run: |  # In the case it fails:
        curl -L https://install.meilisearch.com | sh # downloading MS with the script
        ls -la .  # the meilisearch binary is here
        head -1 meilisearch # the binary file contains "Not Found"

The script is able to detect the OS and the archi but, sometimes, not what is the tag of the latest (I don't know why...), so the download URL is incorrect, that's why there is "Not Found" in the downloaded binary file.

[Kerollmops]

So the temporary solution would be to download meilisearch from brew? But isn't it just related to the meilisearch-swift repository?

[curquiza]

The solution for a user in the same situation as the meilisearch-swift repository (= using macos in a GitHub CI) is to use brew instead of the download_latest.sh script