Issue with Expo 5.3.0 update

[PatrickCleary]

Description of the bug

How would you shortly summarise the issue?
When expo upgraded to 5.3.0 my deployments began failing with:

Run expo/expo-github-action@v5
Installing Expo CLI (5.3.0) from cache or with npm
Error: Error: EACCES: permission denied, copyfile '/home/runner/work/_temp/_github_home/.aws/amplify/deployment-secrets.json' -> '/opt/hostedtoolcache/expo-cli/5.3.0/x64/_github_home/.aws/amplify/deployment-secrets.json'

I'm not sure if it is only an issue with AWS Amplify or not.

To Reproduce

What steps did you perform which led to this issue?

GitHub action configuration:

  - uses: expo/expo-github-action@v5
        with:
          expo-packager: npm
          expo-username: ${{ secrets.EXPO_CLI_USERNAME }}
          expo-password: ${{ secrets.EXPO_CLI_PASSWORD }}
          expo-cache: true

Expected behavior

What did you expect to have happened?
configure Expo within action

Actual behavior

What did it actually result in?
The error posted above

Additional context

Can you further explain the issue? E.g., information about version/environment or screenshots.
Updated my configuration to:

  - uses: expo/expo-github-action@v5
        with:
          expo-packager: npm
          **expo-version: 5.2.0**
          expo-username: ${{ secrets.EXPO_CLI_USERNAME }}
          expo-password: ${{ secrets.EXPO_CLI_PASSWORD }}
          expo-cache: true

      And my deployments began succeeding again.

[PatrickCleary]

Not urgent or anything, the work around I have is fine. Just thought I would let the developers know. Sorry for lack of details.

[byCedric]

Hi @PatrickCleary! I'm not exactly sure what's going on with the amplify stuff. I don't think we are calling amplify in any way, so it's probably a dependency to run the project (if it contains amplify). If your project is calling it, then I don't know why it's picking the Expo CLI's version of amplify.

That being said, the latest e2e tests for version v7 (or 7.1.1 exactly) shows that you can install expo-cli@5.3.0 without issues using either npm or yarn. So I would recommend upgrading your version to v7. Heads up, there are slightly different settings with the newer version:

expo/expo-github-action@v5

  - uses: expo/expo-github-action@v5
    with:
      expo-packager: npm
      expo-username: ${{ secrets.EXPO_CLI_USERNAME }}
      expo-password: ${{ secrets.EXPO_CLI_PASSWORD }}
      expo-cache: true

expo/expo-github-action@v7

  - uses: expo/expo-github-action@v7
    with:
      expo-version: latest
      packager: npm
      token: ${{ secrets.EXPO_TOKEN }}

• expo-version has to be defined in order to install it, we also support eas-version in case you need eas-cli
• expo-packager has been renamed to packager because this also applies to installing eas-cli
• expo-cache is now set to true by default
• expo-username|password has been deprecated since v6, and removed in v7, in favor of access tokens - you can create yours here.

Let me know if you run into issues when upgrading, or if something blocks you from doing so!

[PatrickCleary]

Sorry, didn't see there was a new version. Thanks!

[byCedric]

No worries! Github doesn't do a good job informing you about new changes. Lmk if you run into more trouble