apt-cache does not find packages with nektos/act

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apt-cache does not find packages with nektos/act

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After further investigation:

I have manually logged into the container that act had spun up, and indeed, running apt-cache show python3-semver gives me same error. I then ran sudo apt update and, lo and behold, the error disappears.

Indeed, inserting run: sudo apt update as an extra step before cache-apt-pkgs-action makes the workflow work locally with act. I don't like having to insert extra steps for the sole purpose of making it play nice locally though.

At this point I felt like it might not be a bug with this action so much as a problem with act - they don't seem to have apt update'd in the default image? But that doesn't make sense either, because I can apt install python3-semver from the workflow. Without a previous apt update, this shouldn't be possible either.

I'm a little confused now...

[awalsh128]

I would look at the package on install and then on update on the logs to see what the difference is. That would be a good start to the investigation. Post it here.

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Hi and thanks for your response. Can you elaborate on what you mean by "on install" and "on update"?