[core] Release workflow and Updater cleanup (#8640)

- Only use trusted publishing with PyPI and remove support for PyPI tokens from release workflow
- Clean up improper actions syntax in the build workflow inputs
- Refactor Updater to allow for consistent unit testing with `UPDATE_SOURCES`

Authored by: bashonly

.github/workflows/build.yml

@@ -80,12 +80,12 @@ on:
         default: true
         type: boolean
       origin:
-        description: .
+        description: Origin
         required: false
-        default: ''
+        default: 'current repo'
         type: choice
         options:
-        - ''
+        - 'current repo'
 
 permissions:
   contents: read
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Process origin
         id: process_origin
         run: |
-          echo "origin=${{ inputs.origin || github.repository }}" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+          echo "origin=${{ inputs.origin == 'current repo' && github.repository || inputs.origin }}" | tee "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
 
   unix:
     needs: process

.github/workflows/release.yml

@@ -64,7 +64,6 @@ jobs:
       target_tag: ${{ steps.setup_variables.outputs.target_tag }}
       pypi_project: ${{ steps.setup_variables.outputs.pypi_project }}
       pypi_suffix: ${{ steps.setup_variables.outputs.pypi_suffix }}
-      pypi_token: ${{ steps.setup_variables.outputs.pypi_token }}
       head_sha: ${{ steps.get_target.outputs.head_sha }}
 
     steps:
@@ -153,7 +152,6 @@ jobs:
               ${{ !!secrets[format('{0}_archive_repo_token', env.target_repo)] }} || fallback_token
               pypi_project='${{ vars[format('{0}_pypi_project', env.target_repo)] }}'
               pypi_suffix='${{ vars[format('{0}_pypi_suffix', env.target_repo)] }}'
-              ${{ !secrets[format('{0}_pypi_token', env.target_repo)] }} || pypi_token='${{ env.target_repo }}_pypi_token'
             fi
           else
             target_tag="${source_tag:-${version}}"
@@ -163,7 +161,6 @@ jobs:
               ${{ !!secrets[format('{0}_archive_repo_token', env.source_repo)] }} || fallback_token
               pypi_project='${{ vars[format('{0}_pypi_project', env.source_repo)] }}'
               pypi_suffix='${{ vars[format('{0}_pypi_suffix', env.source_repo)] }}'
-              ${{ !secrets[format('{0}_pypi_token', env.source_repo)] }} || pypi_token='${{ env.source_repo }}_pypi_token'
             else
               target_repo='${{ github.repository }}'
             fi
@@ -172,13 +169,6 @@ jobs:
           if [[ "${target_repo}" == '${{ github.repository }}' ]] && ${{ !inputs.prerelease }}; then
             pypi_project='${{ vars.PYPI_PROJECT }}'
           fi
-          if [[ -z "${pypi_token}" && "${pypi_project}" ]]; then
-            if ${{ !secrets.PYPI_TOKEN }}; then
-              pypi_token=OIDC
-            else
-              pypi_token=PYPI_TOKEN
-            fi
-          fi
 
           echo "::group::Output variables"
           cat << EOF | tee -a "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
@@ -189,7 +179,6 @@ jobs:
           target_tag=${target_tag}
           pypi_project=${pypi_project}
           pypi_suffix=${pypi_suffix}
-          pypi_token=${pypi_token}
           EOF
           echo "::endgroup::"
 
@@ -286,18 +275,7 @@ jobs:
           python devscripts/set-variant.py pip -M "You installed yt-dlp with pip or using the wheel from PyPi; Use that to update"
           python setup.py sdist bdist_wheel
 
-      - name: Publish to PyPI via token
+      - name: Publish to PyPI
-        env:
-          TWINE_USERNAME: __token__
-          TWINE_PASSWORD: ${{ secrets[needs.prepare.outputs.pypi_token] }}
-        if: |
-          needs.prepare.outputs.pypi_token != 'OIDC' && env.TWINE_PASSWORD
-        run: |
-          twine upload dist/*
-
-      - name: Publish to PyPI via trusted publishing
-        if: |
-          needs.prepare.outputs.pypi_token == 'OIDC'
         uses: pypa/gh-action-pypi-publish@release/v1
         with:
           verbose: true

test/test_update.py

@@ -11,6 +11,14 @@ sys.path.insert(0, os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))))
 from test.helper import FakeYDL, report_warning
 from yt_dlp.update import Updater, UpdateInfo
 
+
+# XXX: Keep in sync with yt_dlp.update.UPDATE_SOURCES
+TEST_UPDATE_SOURCES = {
+    'stable': 'yt-dlp/yt-dlp',
+    'nightly': 'yt-dlp/yt-dlp-nightly-builds',
+    'master': 'yt-dlp/yt-dlp-master-builds',
+}
+
 TEST_API_DATA = {
     'yt-dlp/yt-dlp/latest': {
         'tag_name': '2023.12.31',
@@ -104,6 +112,7 @@ class FakeUpdater(Updater):
 
     _channel = 'stable'
     _origin = 'yt-dlp/yt-dlp'
+    _update_sources = TEST_UPDATE_SOURCES
 
     def _download_update_spec(self, *args, **kwargs):
         return TEST_LOCKFILE_ACTUAL

yt_dlp/update.py

@@ -206,13 +206,14 @@ class Updater:
     # XXX: use class variables to simplify testing
     _channel = CHANNEL
     _origin = ORIGIN
+    _update_sources = UPDATE_SOURCES
 
     def __init__(self, ydl, target: str | None = None):
         self.ydl = ydl
         # For backwards compat, target needs to be treated as if it could be None
         self.requested_channel, sep, self.requested_tag = (target or self._channel).rpartition('@')
         # Check if requested_tag is actually the requested repo/channel
-        if not sep and ('/' in self.requested_tag or self.requested_tag in UPDATE_SOURCES):
+        if not sep and ('/' in self.requested_tag or self.requested_tag in self._update_sources):
             self.requested_channel = self.requested_tag
             self.requested_tag: str = None  # type: ignore (we set it later)
         elif not self.requested_channel:
@@ -237,11 +238,11 @@ class Updater:
                 self._block_restart('Automatically restarting into custom builds is disabled for security reasons')
         else:
             # Check if requested_channel resolves to a known repository or else raise
-            self.requested_repo = UPDATE_SOURCES.get(self.requested_channel)
+            self.requested_repo = self._update_sources.get(self.requested_channel)
             if not self.requested_repo:
                 self._report_error(
                     f'Invalid update channel {self.requested_channel!r} requested. '
-                    f'Valid channels are {", ".join(UPDATE_SOURCES)}', True)
+                    f'Valid channels are {", ".join(self._update_sources)}', True)
 
         self._identifier = f'{detect_variant()} {system_identifier()}'