├── .github
    └── workflows
    │   ├── default.yml
    │   └── tuned.yml
├── README.md
├── action.yml
└── speedup.sh


/.github/workflows/default.yml:
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 1 | name: Default
 2 | 
 3 | on: [push, pull_request]
 4 | 
 5 | jobs:
 6 |   build:
 7 | 
 8 |     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
 9 | 
10 |     steps:
11 |     - uses: actions/checkout@v2
12 |     - name: Update apt sources
13 |       run: sudo apt-get update -y
14 |     - name: Install libguestfs-tools
15 |       run: sudo apt-get install libguestfs-tools -y
16 | 


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/.github/workflows/tuned.yml:
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 1 | name: Tuned
 2 | 
 3 | on: [push, pull_request]
 4 | 
 5 | jobs:
 6 |   build:
 7 | 
 8 |     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
 9 | 
10 |     steps:
11 |     - uses: actions/checkout@v2
12 |     - name: Apply settings
13 |       run: ./speedup.sh
14 |     - name: Update apt sources
15 |       run: sudo apt-get update -y
16 |     - name: Install libguestfs-tools
17 |       run: sudo apt-get install libguestfs-tools -y
18 | 


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/README.md:
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1 | Speed up your github actions on `ubuntu-latest`. For the full article, see:
2 | 
3 | [A few simple tricks to tune your github actions runtime](https://abbbi.github.io/actions/)
4 | 
5 | You can speed up your runtime by using this action repository
6 | in your yml files, see:
7 | 
8 |  [This example repository](https://github.com/abbbi/tuneme/blob/master/.github/workflows/tuned.yml)
9 | 


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/action.yml:
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1 | name: 'Speedup package installation'
2 | description: 'Tune your runtime on ubuntu-latest'
3 | runs:
4 |   using: "composite"
5 |   steps:
6 |     - run: ${{ github.action_path }}/speedup.sh
7 |       shell: bash
8 | 


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/speedup.sh:
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 1 | #!/bin/bash
 2 | INITRAMFS_CONF="/etc/initramfs-tools/update-initramfs.conf"
 3 | DPKG_TRIGGERS="/var/lib/dpkg/triggers/File"
 4 | 
 5 | if [ -e $INITRAMFS_CONF ]; then
 6 |     sudo sed -i 's/yes/no/g' $INITRAMFS_CONF
 7 | fi
 8 | sudo rm -f /var/lib/man-db/auto-update
 9 | 
10 | if [ -e $DPKG_TRIGGERS ]; then
11 |     sudo sed '/fontconfig/d' -i $DPKG_TRIGGERS
12 |     sudo sed '/install-info/d' -i $DPKG_TRIGGERS
13 |     sudo sed '/mime/d' -i $DPKG_TRIGGERS
14 |     sudo sed '/hicolor-icon-theme/d' -i $DPKG_TRIGGERS
15 | fi
16 | 
17 | echo "force-unsafe-io" | sudo tee -a /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg.d/force-unsafe-io
18 | 
19 | if [ -a /usr/bin/eatmydata ]; then
20 |   echo "eatmydata available"
21 |   echo -e '#!/bin/sh\nexec eatmydata /usr/bin/dpkg $@' | sudo tee /usr/local/bin/dpkg && sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/dpkg
22 |   echo -e '#!/bin/sh\nexec eatmydata /usr/bin/apt $@' | sudo tee /usr/local/bin/apt && sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/apt
23 |   echo -e '#!/bin/sh\nexec eatmydata /usr/bin/apt-get $@' | sudo tee /usr/local/bin/apt-get && sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/apt-get
24 | fi
25 | 


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