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+on: 
+  - workflow-dispatch
+  - push
+
+jobs:
+  build:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    container:
+      image: alpine:edge
+
+    steps:
+      - name: set up dependencies
+        run: |
+          apk update 
+          apk upgrade 
+          apk add nodejs git alpine-sdk
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with: 
+          sparse-checkout: "alpine/"
+
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          path: 'continuwuity/alpine/src/continuwuity'
+      - name: set up user 
+        run: adduser -DG abuild ci 
+
+      - name: set up keys
+        run: |
+          pwd
+          mkdir ~/.abuild 
+          echo "${{ secrets.abuild_privkey }}" > ~/.abuild/ci@continuwuity.rsa
+          echo "${{ secrets.abuild_pubkey }}" > ~/.abuild/ci@continuwuity.rsa.pub 
+          echo $HOME
+          echo 'PACKAGER_PRIVKEY="/root/.abuild/ci@continuwuity.rsa"' > ~/.abuild/abuild.conf 
+          ls ~/.abuild
+
+      - name: go go gadget abuild 
+        run: |
+          cd alpine 
+          # removes the continuwuity source from the APKBUILD, as we already fetched it 
+          sed -i '/^source=/c\source="' APKBUILD 
+          cat APKBUILD
+          abuild -F checksum
+          ls .
+          ls * -a
+
+# vim: shiftwidth=2