Re: Some issues encountered while preparing the docker of BackupPC for the 4.1.1 release

Hi there,

On Thu, 13 Aug 2026, Adrien Ferrand wrote:

> Yes, concerning CircleCI, I have checked it, and it is orthogonal
> here. The GitHub pipeline is triggered only for tag pushes, while
> CircleCI concerns the PRs and integration purposes.  Given that for
> the release, I just wanted to provide a tooling concerning the
> Github functionalities themselves, and so quite naturally, the
> Github pipeline is working out-of-the-box here. It is entirely
> possible to do it with CircleCI, but it requires to install the GH
> CLI and generate a token that is the stored on CircleCI side.  On
> top of being more work, I tend, from a security standpoint, to avoid
> having a token of a system hanging out in another system if I can...

You're absolutely right about that.  Craig suggested that I open an
account with CircleCI but its Website asked me to give it my Github
credentials as part of the process so I politely declined.  Apparently
when Craig first implemented it there was no similar functionality in
Github but I'm hoping that things have moved on sufficiently now that
I can replace it with something that needs no privileged access by a
random third party site.  I've been playing around with pre-commit[1],
it was very easy to set up and it seems to work well enough.  I'm sure
that it could do a lot of what CircleCI does plus things like checking
that the version numbers in files are up to date.

> Maybe you could have a look at > https://cli.github.com/manual/gh.
> Normally this should remove all the need of accessing the UI for the
> typical management of a Github repo.

Seems to me I've mentioned browser issues getting in the way in this
context already.  I did look at that about a year ago, but you can
imagine how keen I am to embark on yet another project that means the
first thing I have to do is find a way to make documentation legible.
If there is anyone here with experience of using gh I'm all ears, at
the moment have no feel at all for the features in the Github Web UI
that (1) gh can replace and (2) I can't do right now just using git.

[1] https://pre-commit.com/

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73,
Ged.


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