Suddenly pigz is no longer available in Ubuntu-20.04

[Luc45]

Description

My worksflows suddently started failing 2 days ago because pigz could not be found anymore. This tool has been available in the ubuntu-20.04 image, but seems to have been removed without notice. Is the removal expected? If so, why? Is it possible to re-add it?

Platforms affected

• Azure DevOps
• GitHub Actions - Standard Runners
• GitHub Actions - Larger Runners

Runner images affected

• Ubuntu 20.04
• Ubuntu 22.04
• macOS 11
• macOS 12
• macOS 13
• Windows Server 2019
• Windows Server 2022

Image version and build link

It's not a public repo

Is it regression?

It's not a public repo

Expected behavior

pigz should be installed in the image

Actual behavior

pigz is not installed in the image

Repro steps

Try to execute pigz in Ubuntu 20.04, it should be available.

[Alexey-Ayupov]

Hello @Luc45, we will take a look, however temporarily you can switch to gzip.

[Alexey-Ayupov]

The "pigz" was never in our software list, however, it was installed as a recommended package along with docker. Recently we have changed the docker installation source and stopped installing "pigz".
If you would like to use it you can install it in runtime, using a snippet like this

- name: check issue
        id: test_out
        shell: bash
        run: |
          apt-get -yq update
          apt-get install -y pigz

If you have any questions, feel free to reach us.

[Luc45]

Thanks, that makes sense now. I'll adapt my workflows.

[jeffwidman]

I opened:

• Add pigz #8205

As in our workflows the step to install pigz took 2 mins, which seems a bit long for something that only takes 259 KB.