Feature Request: Add -f flag to codeql database create about codeql-cli-binaries

[edoardopirovano]

Seems sensible, I can take a look at this next week.

[edoardopirovano]

Added! The flag is --overwrite and should be in CLI 2.5.7+.

[edoardopirovano]

Added! The flag is --overwrite and should be in CLI 2.5.7+.

Correction: This will make it into 2.5.6 as we had to restart our release testing of that due to some issues.

[gaurav-t-sca]

Having a similar issue, but with the CodeQL Github Action. The first run works, but subsequent runs fail during the "Initialize CodeQL" step:

      Exit code 2 and error was:

      A fatal error occurred: Refusing to create database: '/opt/actions-runner/_work/_temp/codeql_databases/python' exists and is not an empty directory.
Please specify a different location, or use the --overwrite flag to overwrite existing CodeQL databases.

I tried adding steps to delete that folder with rm -rf and even with find ... -delete but the files don't seem to get deleted and the error persists. Is there a way we can use this --override flag with the Github Action? Or maybe if --override isn't specified, check the value of an environment variable or something (since those are easy to set up with github actions)?

Thanks in advance!

[hmakholm]

@gaurav-t-sca: It is not totally clear what you're doing to get that error. The CodeQL Action doesn't support running CodeQL more than once in the same job; there are deep architectural barriers to that, which are not limited to the location of the database.

It this is not what is happening here, please open an issue against https://github.com/github/codeql-action and include information about your environment (i.e. your workflow file; do you use a self-hosted runner of a GitHub-provided one; if possible a link to a failing run, etc).