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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Support non-ubuntu linux distributions by specify location of versions-manifest.json","articleBody":"\u003c!--- Please direct any generic questions related to actions to our support community forum at https://github.community/c/code-to-cloud/github-actions/41 --->\r\n\u003c!--- Before opening up a new feature request, please make sure to check for similar existing issues and pull requests -->\r\n\r\n**Description:**\r\nI'm using GHES with runners under CentOS / Rocky Linux.\r\nBut `setup-python` is supported on recent Ubuntu versions only, and it fails on other linux distributions, yet.\r\nSo, I propose to support other linux distributions by simple changes.\r\n\r\n**Justification:**\r\n* Recent actions/tool-cache library supports to determine platform version for non-ubuntu linux distros ( https://github.com/actions/toolkit/pull/594 )\r\n* `setup-python` actions has hard coded location of `versions-manifest.json`.\r\n  If location of `versions-manifest.json` can be provided users, actions can be used for various linux platform.\r\n  I propose 3 inputs options for this.\r\n    - versions-manifest-repo-owner : Github owner of `versions-manifest.json`\r\n    - versions-manifest-repo-name :  Github repository of `versions-manifest.json`\r\n    - versions-manifest-repo-branch :  Github branch of `versions-manifest.json`\r\n  If these values are not set, default value should be same with current behavior.\r\n\r\n**Are you willing to submit a PR?**\r\n\u003c!--- We accept contributions! -->\r\nI'll try it :D","author":{"url":"https://github.com/ganadist","@type":"Person","name":"ganadist"},"datePublished":"2023-08-13T17:38:20Z","url":"https://github.com/actions/setup-python/issues/716"}