Proposal - remove PAC files from repo (and thus tarball/zipball of actions) and install via nuget

.github/workflows/paportal-rolling-instance-actions.yml

@@ -53,6 +53,10 @@ jobs:
     - name: Download CDSStarterPortal package from portal authenticated feed
       run: gulp fetchPortalPackage --feedPAT ${{ secrets.OneCRM_DevOps_Read_PAT }}
 
+    - name: Install PAC
+      uses: ./actions-install
+      id: actions-install
+
     - name: Create a PA Portal test env
       uses: ./create-environment
       id: create-paportal-environment

.github/workflows/pull-request.yml

@@ -42,14 +42,9 @@ jobs:
       env:
         AZ_DevOps_Read_PAT: ${{ secrets.AZ_DevOps_Read_PAT }}
 
-    - name: Check Execute Permissions
-      if: matrix.os == 'ubuntu-latest'
-      run: |
-        if [ ! -x dist/pac_linux/tools/pac ]
-        then
-            echo "dist/pac_linux/tools/pac is not executable.  See \"Refreshing actions in dist folder\" in README.md" 1>&2
-            exit 1
-        fi
+    - name: Install PAC
+      uses: ./actions-install
+      id: actions-install
 
     - name: Test create-environment action with username/password
       uses: ./create-environment

.github/workflows/rolling-instance-actions.yml

@@ -33,6 +33,10 @@ jobs:
       with:
         lfs: true
 
+    - name: Install PAC
+      uses: ./actions-install
+      id: actions-install
+
     - name: Test create-source-environment action with appId-clientSecret
       uses: ./create-environment
       id: create-source-environment

actions-install/action.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+# Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation.
+# Licensed under the MIT License.
+name: 'actions-install'
+description: 'Power Platform Actions Install'
+inputs:
+  pac-version-override:
+    description: 'Override the version of PAC installed for Actions. Note that this may break other actions if the PAC and Action arguments do not align.'
+    required: false
+
+runs:
+  using: 'node16'
+  main: '../dist/actions/actions-install/index.js'
+