ci: use helper script to bundle artifacts

.github/workflows/build-src.yml

@@ -15,11 +15,17 @@ on:
         description: "Key needed to access cached depends"
         required: true
         type: string
+    outputs:
+      key:
+        description: "Key needed for restoring artifacts bundle"
+        value: ${{ jobs.build-src.outputs.key }}
 
 jobs:
   build-src:
     name: Build source
     runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
+    outputs:
+      key:  ${{ steps.bundle.outputs.key }}
     container:
       image: ${{ inputs.container-path }}
       options: --user root
@@ -89,9 +95,20 @@ jobs:
           ./ci/dash/test_unittests.sh
         shell: bash
 
-      - name: Upload build artifacts
+      - name: Bundle artifacts
+        id: bundle
+        run: |
+          export BUILD_TARGET="${{ inputs.build-target }}"
+          export BUNDLE_KEY="build-${BUILD_TARGET}-$(git rev-parse --short=8 HEAD)"
+          ./ci/dash/bundle-artifacts.sh create
+          echo "key=${BUNDLE_KEY}" >> "${GITHUB_OUTPUT}"
+
+      - name: Upload artifacts
         uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
         with:
-          name: build-artifacts-${{ inputs.build-target }}
+          name: ${{ steps.bundle.outputs.key }}
           path: |
-            /output
+            ${{ steps.bundle.outputs.key }}.tar.zst
+          compression-level: 0
+          overwrite: true
+          retention-days: 3

ci/dash/bundle-artifacts.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# Copyright (c) 2024-2025 The Dash Core developers
+# Distributed under the MIT software license, see the accompanying
+# file COPYING or http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php.
+
+export LC_ALL=C.UTF-8
+
+set -eo pipefail
+
+SH_NAME="$(basename "${0}")"
+VERB="${1}"
+
+if [ -z "${BUILD_TARGET}" ]; then
+  echo "${SH_NAME}: BUILD_TARGET not defined, cannot continue!";
+  exit 1;
+elif [ -z "${BUNDLE_KEY}" ]; then
+  echo "${SH_NAME}: BUNDLE_KEY not defined, cannot continue!";
+  exit 1;
+elif  [ ! "$(command -v zstd)" ]; then
+  echo "${SH_NAME}: zstd not found, cannot continue!";
+  exit 1;
+elif [ -z "${VERB}" ]; then
+  echo "${SH_NAME}: Verb missing, acceptable values 'create' or 'extract'";
+  exit 1;
+elif [ "${VERB}" != "create" ] && [ "${VERB}" != "extract" ]; then
+  echo "${SH_NAME}: Invalid verb '${VERB}', expected 'create' or 'extract'";
+  exit 1;
+fi
+
+OUTPUT_ARCHIVE="${BUNDLE_KEY}.tar.zst"
+if [ -f "${OUTPUT_ARCHIVE}" ] && [ "${VERB}" = "create" ]; then
+  echo "${SH_NAME}: ${OUTPUT_ARCHIVE} already exists, cannot continue!";
+  exit 1;
+elif [ ! -f "${OUTPUT_ARCHIVE}" ] && [ "${VERB}" = "extract" ]; then
+  echo "${SH_NAME}: ${OUTPUT_ARCHIVE} missing, cannot continue!";
+  exit 1;
+fi
+
+if [ "${VERB}" = "create" ]; then
+  EXCLUSIONS=(
+    "*.a"
+    "*.o"
+    "build-ci/dashcore-${BUILD_TARGET}/src/bench/bench_dash"
+    "build-ci/dashcore-${BUILD_TARGET}/src/bench/bench_dash.exe"
+    "build-ci/dashcore-${BUILD_TARGET}/src/qt/test/test_dash-qt"
+    "build-ci/dashcore-${BUILD_TARGET}/src/qt/test/test_dash-qt.exe"
+    "build-ci/dashcore-${BUILD_TARGET}/src/test/test_dash"
+    "build-ci/dashcore-${BUILD_TARGET}/src/test/test_dash.exe"
+    "build-ci/dashcore-${BUILD_TARGET}/src/test/fuzz/fuzz"
+  )
+  EXCLUSIONS_ARG=""
+  for excl in "${EXCLUSIONS[@]}"
+  do
+    EXCLUSIONS_ARG+=" --exclude=${excl}";
+  done
+
+  # shellcheck disable=SC2086
+  tar ${EXCLUSIONS_ARG} --use-compress-program="zstd -T0 -5" -cf "${OUTPUT_ARCHIVE}" "build-ci";
+elif [ "${VERB}" = "extract" ]; then
+  tar --use-compress-program="unzstd" -xf "${OUTPUT_ARCHIVE}";
+else
+  echo "${SH_NAME}: Generic error";
+  exit 1;
+fi

contrib/containers/ci/Dockerfile

@@ -184,6 +184,7 @@ RUN apt-get update && apt-get install $APT_ARGS \
     wine-stable \
     wine64 \
     zip \
+    zstd \
     && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
 
 # Make sure std::thread and friends is available