Fix Cabal smoke-test workflow#5936
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aryairani merged 2 commits intounisonweb:trunkfrom Oct 15, 2025
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The changes to support commenting on a PR broke the ability to manually run the workflow. This condionalizes the parts required for `pull_request_target` so that running on a branch explicitly will work. It also conditionalizes the `continue-on-error` value so that runs triggered by `workflow_dispatch` will fail (if something goes wrong) rather than hiding the failure as we do when we add a comment to the PR.
It was previously only based on the cabal.project.freeze file, which changes very rarely. However, a change to build flags (as happened in unisonweb#5856) can cause dependencies to need to be rebuilt. But if the cache key was a perfect match, we wouldn’t cache the updated dependency builds. This adds a hash for all Cabal files to the key, so any change that would affect dependencies causes a cache miss. It also adds the old key (which is a prefix of the new one) as a restore key, so even when cabal files change, we load a cache for the correct LTS (GHC version, etc.) which can prevent cache churn in the period after LTS updates.
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Overview
There are two issues fixed here:
workflow_dispatchtrigger didn’t work because the workflow was trying to look up the PR number, which doesn’t exist forworkflow_dispatchandImplementation notes
This also makes the workflow behave a bit better under
workflow_dispatchthan it would have – with a PR, we let the job pass on failure, and add a comment to the PR. Sinceworkflow_dispatchdoesn’t give us a place to comment, we let the job fail on failure.Test coverage
The modified workflow won’t run on this repo until it’s merged, so I’ve run the updated workflow on my fork. This at least lets us know that there are no syntax errors, and we get a successful run after triggering with
workflow_dispatch.Unfortunately, my fork doesn’t have a cache for this, so there’s a cache miss – but the keys look correct in the output, and once run on this repo, we should expect to see a cache miss, with the cache restored from the freeze-file-hashed prefix, and then the cache updated with the new dependency builds.