GitHub Actions Workflows by zetneteork · Pull Request #61 · meshcore-dev/meshcore-cli

zetneteork · 2026-05-06T12:00:40Z

GitHub Actions Workflows

I am adding a GitHub Actions workflow to create:

DEB packages
RPM packages
Docker container image

To follow best-practice principles, I created deb packages for each Python module to align with the current Debian packaging schema. And mainly to prevent potential library overlaps.

Releases

https://github.com/opentreecz/meshcore-cli/releases/tag/v1.5.0_11 - The release v1.5.0_11 works as a single package.
https://github.com/opentreecz/meshcore-cli/releases/tag/v1.5.0_12 - The release v1.5.0_12 works as multiple packages

Debian packages

There are those packages:

meshcore-cli_1.5.7-1_all.deb
python3-bleak_0.22.3_all.deb
python3-meshcore_2.3.7_all.deb
python3-prompt-toolkit_3.0.52_all.deb
python3-pycayennelpp_2.4.0_all.deb
python3-serial-asyncio-fast_0.16_all.deb
python3-typing-extensions_4.13.2_all.deb

meshcore-cli package installation log

root@fa77bd7f3180:/app# gdebi meshcore-cli_1.5.7-1_all.deb 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Reading state information... Done
Requires the installation of the following packages: python3-certifi, python3-chardet, python3-idna, python3-requests, python3-urllib3 

CLI interface to MeshCore companion radios and repeaters
 meshcore-cli is a tool that connects to your companion radio node
 (meshcore client) over BLE, TCP or Serial and lets you interact with it
 from a terminal using a command line interface.
 .
 Features:
  - Interactive chat mode with mesh nodes
  - Support for BLE, TCP, and Serial connections
  - Message sending and receiving
  - Repeater login and command execution
  - Trace path visualization
  - Script execution support
Do you want to install the software package? [y/N]:y
Get:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian trixie/main amd64 python3-certifi all 2025.1.31+ds-1 [9652 B]                                                                                                                                                                                                                      
Get:2 http://deb.debian.org/debian trixie/main amd64 python3-chardet all 5.2.0+dfsg-2 [108 kB]                                                                                                                                                                                                                        
Get:3 http://deb.debian.org/debian trixie/main amd64 python3-idna all 3.10-1 [42.0 kB]                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
Get:4 http://deb.debian.org/debian trixie/main amd64 python3-urllib3 all 2.3.0-3+deb13u1 [115 kB]                                                                                                                                                                                                                     
Get:5 http://deb.debian.org/debian trixie/main amd64 python3-requests all 2.32.3+dfsg-5+deb13u1 [72.2 kB]                                                                                                                                                                                                             
Fetched 347 kB in 0s (0 B/s)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          
debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Dialog
debconf: (No usable dialog-like program is installed, so the dialog based frontend cannot be used. at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Dialog.pm line 79, <STDIN> line 5.)
debconf: falling back to frontend: Readline
debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Readline
debconf: (Can't locate Term/ReadLine.pm in @INC (you may need to install the Term::ReadLine module) (@INC entries checked: /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl/5.40.1 /usr/local/share/perl/5.40.1 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl5/5.40 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl-base /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl/5.40 /usr/share/perl/5.40 /usr/local/lib/site_perl) at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Readline.pm line 8, <STDIN> line 5.)
debconf: falling back to frontend: Teletype
debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Dialog
debconf: (No usable dialog-like program is installed, so the dialog based frontend cannot be used. at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Dialog.pm line 79, <STDIN> line 5.)
debconf: falling back to frontend: Readline
debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Readline
debconf: (Can't locate Term/ReadLine.pm in @INC (you may need to install the Term::ReadLine module) (@INC entries checked: /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl/5.40.1 /usr/local/share/perl/5.40.1 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl5/5.40 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl-base /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl/5.40 /usr/share/perl/5.40 /usr/local/lib/site_perl) at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Readline.pm line 8, <STDIN> line 5.)
debconf: falling back to frontend: Teletype
Selecting previously unselected package python3-certifi.
(Reading database ... 9158 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../python3-certifi_2025.1.31+ds-1_all.deb ...
Unpacking python3-certifi (2025.1.31+ds-1) ...
Selecting previously unselected package python3-chardet.
Preparing to unpack .../python3-chardet_5.2.0+dfsg-2_all.deb ...
Unpacking python3-chardet (5.2.0+dfsg-2) ...
Selecting previously unselected package python3-idna.
Preparing to unpack .../python3-idna_3.10-1_all.deb ...
Unpacking python3-idna (3.10-1) ...
Selecting previously unselected package python3-urllib3.
Preparing to unpack .../python3-urllib3_2.3.0-3+deb13u1_all.deb ...
Unpacking python3-urllib3 (2.3.0-3+deb13u1) ...
Selecting previously unselected package python3-requests.
Preparing to unpack .../python3-requests_2.32.3+dfsg-5+deb13u1_all.deb ...
Unpacking python3-requests (2.32.3+dfsg-5+deb13u1) ...
Setting up python3-chardet (5.2.0+dfsg-2) ...
Setting up python3-certifi (2025.1.31+ds-1) ...
Setting up python3-idna (3.10-1) ...
Setting up python3-urllib3 (2.3.0-3+deb13u1) ...
Setting up python3-requests (2.32.3+dfsg-5+deb13u1) ...
Selecting previously unselected package meshcore-cli.
(Reading database ... 9337 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack meshcore-cli_1.5.7-1_all.deb ...
Unpacking meshcore-cli (1.5.7-1) ...
Setting up meshcore-cli (1.5.7-1) ...

What needs to be fixed?

python3 does not find module_cli

    root@fa77bd7f3180:/app# meshcore-cli 
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "/usr/bin/meshcore-cli", line 5, in <module>
        from meshcore_cli.meshcore_cli import cli
    ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'meshcore_cli'

- https://github.com/opentreecz/meshcore-cli/releases/tag/v1.5.0_11
RPM packages are failing to create because of the latest changes in the workflow to create separate packages.
Man pages generation.

Resume

I would be happy to create a branch in the main git repository to let others give help with this.

zetneteork · 2026-05-06T12:02:38Z

Please feel free to contribute to this idea. Your help will be very appreciated.

In a case the branch cannot be created here, you can push directly to https://github.com/opentreecz/meshcore-cli/tree/develop

fdlamotte · 2026-05-06T13:19:45Z

Seems really nice,

Are you working with debian hamradio team ? Maybe some coordination is possible ? (or maybe you're part of the team)

python-meshcore is in unstable : https://packages.debian.org/sid/hamradio/python3-meshcore
meshcore-cli is in the queue : https://salsa.debian.org/debian-hamradio-team/meshcore-cli

zetneteork · 2026-05-06T14:41:34Z

@fdlamotte, you can see the meshcore package is driven with this part of a script: https://github.com/opentreecz/meshcore-cli/blob/32fc2898de25a545d419a0621a778d6bae5d397c/packaging/build-python-dependency-debs.sh#L126

zetneteork added 13 commits May 5, 2026 22:42

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zetneteork commented May 6, 2026

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meshcore-cli package installation log

What needs to be fixed?

Resume

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