[Bug]: Nightly job is failing as step to clean previous tag cannot find it

[cmoulliard]

What is your environment, configuration, and command?

Issue

The Github Workflow Nightly job is failing since a few days as the step to clean a previous tag cannot find it and generates this error

Run actions/github-script@v7
RequestError [HttpError]: Not Found
    at /home/runner/work/_actions/actions/github-script/v7/dist/index.js:9537:21
    at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:95:5)
    at async eval (eval at callAsyncFunction (/home/runner/work/_actions/actions/github-script/v7/dist/index.js:35424:16), <anonymous>:3:23)
    at async main (/home/runner/work/_actions/actions/github-script/v7/dist/index.js:35522:20) {
  status: 404,
  response: {
    url: 'https://api.github.com/repos/cnoe-io/idpbuilder/releases/tags/v0.9.0-nightly.20250123',
    status: 404,
    headers: {
      'access-control-allow-origin': '*',
      'access-control-expose-headers': 'ETag, Link, Location, Retry-After, X-GitHub-OTP, X-RateLimit-Limit, X-RateLimit-Remaining, X-RateLimit-Used, X-RateLimit-Resource, X-RateLimit-Reset, X-OAuth-Scopes, X-Accepted-OAuth-Scopes, X-Poll-Interval, X-GitHub-Media-Type, X-GitHub-SSO, X-GitHub-Request-Id, Deprecation, Sunset',
      'content-encoding': 'gzip',
      'content-security-policy': "default-src 'none'",
      'content-type': 'application/json; charset=utf-8',
      date: 'Fri, 24 Jan 2025 07:13:11 GMT',
      'referrer-policy': 'origin-when-cross-origin, strict-origin-when-cross-origin',
      server: 'github.com',
      'strict-transport-security': 'max-age

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[connorkuehl]

I think it is able to find the previous tag, but is failing to find a previous GitHub Release.

For example, here is the nightly job that pushed the tag in this bug report: https://github.com/cnoe-io/idpbuilder/actions/runs/12924109657/job/36042538900

Which then triggers the release workflow:

idpbuilder/.github/workflows/release.yaml

Line 6 in ef2384b

- 'v[0-9]+.[0-9]+.[0-9]+-nightly.[0-9]+'

Which failed for that tag before creating a GitHub release from it: https://github.com/cnoe-io/idpbuilder/actions/runs/12924112357/job/36042545223

Which resulted in a lack of a GitHub release for that nightly tag, causing the lookup to fail in the nightly's clean step.

I think the nightly's clean step should be able to degrade gracefully here, either by catching a 404 exception and going green and/or splitting the clean step into discrete fetch and delete steps, where the delete step is skipped if the fetch step catches a 404.