docs: clarify that job-level actions replace top-level actions as a whole#1155
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…hole When a job defines its own `actions`, the whole mapping replaces the top-level `actions` instead of merging per action: actions not listed in the job (e.g. `fix-spec-file`, `post-upstream-clone`) are not inherited and do not run. Add a concrete example on the actions page and a cross-reference from the jobs page. Fixes packit#443 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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LGTM, thanks a lot for your contribution.
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Fixes #443.
The behavior was verified against the packit source before documenting, both statically and dynamically:
actionsis aCommonConfigSchemafield, not aJobConfigSchemafield, so inrearrange_jobsit stays inside the raw job dict; the effective package config is built with a shallow dict union (v | job, packitschema.py:882-885and the sibling branches), which replaces the value at theactionskey wholesale — no per-action merge.PackageConfigSchema().load()yields a job whose effective actions are onlycreate-archive; the top-levelfix-spec-file/post-upstream-cloneare absent.So the issue title's guess is confirmed: job-level
actionsreplace the top-level mapping as a whole.Changes:
docs/configuration/actions.md— the existing caution already stated the replace semantics abstractly; this adds the concrete example the issue asks for (the issue's own YAML shape, with a plain statement of which actions actually run when the job triggers), and fixesaction→actionsin the existing sentence.docs/configuration/jobs.md— the "define common options at the top level and only override when needed" sentence is where the merge assumption naturally forms; added one clause + a cross-link to the actions caution.Build gate: the CI pipeline's steps (
make import,yarn install --frozen-lockfile,yarn build) pass locally on this branch —[SUCCESS] Generated static files, cross-link resolves.Disclosure: this contribution was made with AI assistance (Claude); the documented behavior was proven against the packit source and parser rather than assumed.