[bug] Artifact uploaded into the ether

[lordofscripts]

What happened?

I have a packaging.yml workflow that builds RPM and DEB packages to upload into the Release. All workflows and their steps complete successfully, the artifacts are also generated. I use the upload-artifact@v4 at the last step which completes successfully; however, when I look at the tagged release that indirectly triggered the packaging.yml workflow, none of the uploaded artifacts appear (RPM & DEB packages).

What did you expect to happen?

That the artifact caesarx-1.1.2-1.clys.x86_64.deb be:

• Uploaded without zipping, i.e. not caesarx-1.1.2-1.clys.x86_64.deb.zip
• Uploaded to a *named release on the repository, in this case tagged as v1.1.2

How can we reproduce it?

• Stage, Commit, Tag and Push to remote repository
• Create a release with the created tag
• Multi platform Release workflow release.yml releases binaries in .tar.gz format that are uploaded to the release (this works perfectly). This workflow is triggered on a created release
• When the previous workflow completes successfully the Debian and RPM Packaging workflow packaging.yml is triggered. This also completes successfully, except the artifacts disappear into the ether.

Anything else we need to know?

Things to consider

• The 1st workflow (Multi platform Release) is triggered on a created release
• The 2nd workflow (Debian and RPM Packaging) workflow is triggered on workflow_run

The trigger portion of the 1st Workflow:

# Create a Release Package for all known platforms.
name: Multi platform Release
on:
  release:
    types: [created]

The trigger portion of the 2nd Workflow (depends on the first):

# DEB & RPM Build & Packaging of GO project v1.0
name: Debian and RPM Packaging

on:
  workflow_run:
    workflows: [Multi platform Release]
    types:
      - completed

env:
  DIST: clys
  ARCH: x86_64

jobs:
  success:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    if: ${{ github.event.workflow_run.conclusion == 'success' }}
    steps:
      - run: echo 'The Release workflow completed successfully.'
  failure:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    if: ${{ github.event.workflow_run.conclusion == 'failure' }}
    steps:
      - run: echo 'The Release workflow failed.'
  exit:
    needs: failure
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - run: exit 1

  extractTag:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    outputs:
      my_version: ${{ steps.tagStep.outputs.my_version }}
    steps:
      - name: Checkout repository
        uses: actions/checkout@v4    
      - name: Extract version from version.go
        id: tagStep
        run: echo "my_version=$(grep -m 1 'MANUAL_VERSION' version.go | sed -E 's/.*\"([^\"]+)\".*/\1/')" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT

  use-tag:
    needs: extractTag
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Use the tag name
        run: echo "The tag name is ${{ needs.extractTag.outputs.my_version }}"

The use-tag step prints this: The tag name is 1.1.2 which corresponds to the GitHub tagged release v1.1.2

Here is the result of the upload action (BTW, why is it zipping the RPM / DEB packages? is there a way for NOT zipping it?)

Run actions/upload-artifact@v4
  with:
    name: caesarx-1.1.2-1.clys.x86_64.deb
    path: caesarx*.deb
    if-no-files-found: warn
    compression-level: 6
    overwrite: false
    include-hidden-files: false
  env:
    DIST: clys
    ARCH: x86_64
    PKG_NAME: caesarx
With the provided path, there will be 1 file uploaded
Artifact name is valid!
Root directory input is valid!
Beginning upload of artifact content to blob storage
Uploaded bytes 1507182
Finished uploading artifact content to blob storage!
SHA256 digest of uploaded artifact zip is b930ddeaa766a98e4e415c13004dab70f680e3d3d6fec23e8c024f7fa10fa5a5
Finalizing artifact upload
Artifact caesarx-1.1.2-1.clys.x86_64.deb.zip successfully finalized. Artifact ID 4370891857
Artifact caesarx-1.1.2-1.clys.x86_64.deb has been successfully uploaded! Final size is 1507182 bytes. Artifact ID is 4370891857

What version of the action are you using?

v4

What are your runner environments?

linux

Are you on GitHub Enterprise Server? If so, what version?

No response