let's keep things simple

action.yaml

@@ -1,29 +1,24 @@
-name: 'Open Component Model tool installer'
-description: 'Install a specific version of the ocm binary. Acceptable values are latest or any semantic version string like 1.15.0'
+name: "Open Component Model command line (ocm-cli) installer"
+description: "Install a specific version of the ocm binary. Acceptable values are latest or any semantic version string like 1.15.0 see: https://github.com/open-component-model/ocm/releases"
 inputs:
   version:
-    description: 'Version of the ocm tool (defaulted to latest version)'
+    description: "Version of the ocm-cli (defaulted to latest version)"
     required: true
     default: latest
   repo:
-    description: 'Repository of the ocm tool'
+    description: "Repository of the ocm-cli"
     required: true
-    default: 'open-component-model/ocm'
-outputs:
-  ocm-path:
-    description: 'Path to the cached ocm binary'
-    value: ${{ steps.install.outputs.ocm-path }}
+    default: "open-component-model/ocm"
 branding:
-  color: 'blue'
+  color: "blue"
 runs:
-  using: 'composite'
+  using: "composite"
   steps:
-  - shell: bash
-    id: install
-    env:
-      version: ${{ inputs.version }}
-      repo: ${{ inputs.repo }}
-    run: |
-      echo "path: ${{ github.action_path }}"
-      chmod +x "${{ github.action_path }}/install.sh"
-      "${{ github.action_path }}/install.sh"
+    - shell: bash
+      id: install
+      env:
+        version: ${{ inputs.version }}
+        repo: ${{ inputs.repo }}
+      run: |
+        chmod a+x "${{ github.action_path }}/install.sh"
+        "${{ github.action_path }}/install.sh"

install.sh

@@ -2,32 +2,26 @@
 set -o pipefail
 
 REPO=${repo:=open-component-model/ocm}
-WORKSPACE=${GITHUB_WORKSPACE:=/usr/local}
 
 if [ -z "$version" -o "$version" == latest ]; then
   version="$(basename "$(curl -Ls -o /dev/null -w %{url_effective} https://github.com/$REPO/releases/latest)")"
   echo "Selecting latest version: $version"
 fi
-
-BINARY=ocm
+
 VERSION=${version#v}
 PLATFORM=linux
 ARCH=amd64
-ARCHIVEFILE="${BINARY}-${VERSION}-${PLATFORM}-${ARCH}.tar.gz"
+ARCHIVEFILE="ocm-${VERSION}-${PLATFORM}-${ARCH}.tar.gz"
 URL="https://github.com/$REPO/releases/download/v${VERSION}/$ARCHIVEFILE"
-TARGET=${WORKSPACE}/ocm
+TARGET="$HOME/.local/bin"
 
-cd /tmp
-echo "Installing Open Component Model CLI Tool version $version from $REPO"
+# prepare target directory
+mkdir -p $TARGET
+cd $TARGET
 rm -f ocm-cli.tgz
-mkdir -p "$(dirname "$TARGET")"
-curl -Ls -o ocm-cli.tgz "$URL"
+echo "$TARGET" >> "$GITHUB_PATH"
+
+echo "Installing ocm-cli version $version from $REPO"
+curl -LsS -o ocm-cli.tgz "$URL"
 tar --overwrite -xvzf ocm-cli.tgz >/dev/null
-cp ocm "$TARGET"
-chmod a+x "$TARGET"
-echo "ocm installed into $TARGET"
-if [ -n "$GITHUB_OUTPUT" ]; then
-  echo "ocm-path=$TARGET" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
-fi
-# add installation folder to PATH to be able to use "which ocm" in subsequent steps to detect installation path
-echo "$TARGET" >> $GITHUB_PATH
+chmod a+x ocm