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Start MySQL in the background while PHP is set up #76

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34 changes: 22 additions & 12 deletions .github/workflows/reusable-testing.yml
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Expand Up @@ -59,6 +59,24 @@ jobs:
id: check_files
run: echo "files_exists=$([ -f composer.json ] && [ -f behat.yml ] && echo true || echo false)" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"

# Downloading and starting the database server is the slowest part of the
# setup, and nothing needs it until the test database is prepared, so it
# runs in the background alongside the PHP and Composer setup below. The
# action only downloads its own binaries, so it cannot contend with apt.
- name: Setup MySQL Server
id: setup-mysql
if: ${{ inputs.dbtype != 'sqlite' }}
background: true
uses: shogo82148/actions-setup-mysql@334a29f22d90428932f75b11e0d5fcc00bb6b4f4 # v1
with:
mysql-version: '8.0' # Standard MySQL version for these tests
auto-start: true
root-password: ${{ env.WP_CLI_TEST_DBROOTPASS }}
user: ${{ env.WP_CLI_TEST_DBUSER}}
password: ${{ env.WP_CLI_TEST_DBPASS}}
my-cnf: |
default_authentication_plugin=mysql_native_password

# Ghostscript ships with the GitHub hosted images, so the `apt-get update`
# this used to run unconditionally cost every job ~25s for a package that
# was already there. Keep the install as a fallback in case a future image
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run: |
sudo sed -i 's/^.*policy.*coder.*none.*PDF.*//' /etc/ImageMagick-6/policy.xml

- name: Setup MySQL Server
id: setup-mysql
if: ${{ inputs.dbtype != 'sqlite' }}
uses: shogo82148/actions-setup-mysql@334a29f22d90428932f75b11e0d5fcc00bb6b4f4 # v1
with:
mysql-version: '8.0' # Standard MySQL version for these tests
auto-start: true
root-password: ${{ env.WP_CLI_TEST_DBROOTPASS }}
user: ${{ env.WP_CLI_TEST_DBUSER}}
password: ${{ env.WP_CLI_TEST_DBPASS}}
my-cnf: |
default_authentication_plugin=mysql_native_password
# Waits for the database server started in the background above. `wait-all`
# rather than `wait: setup-mysql`, as the step is skipped for SQLite legs.
- name: Wait for the MySQL server
wait-all:

- name: Prepare test database
if: steps.check_files.outputs.files_exists == 'true' && inputs.dbtype != 'sqlite'
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