How to give public access to private repository CI artefacts?

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Problem to solve

I can give access to the release. but when I make a CI that puts Release.zip up from a build artifact no-one without login can download it since the CI/CD is private.
I can’t make that public either since that’s not possible with a private repo … so what is the point of public releases when all i can link to from the CI are private artifacts ?

Do I have to use some work-around or do I really need to host the files myself somewhere else? It would be quite a pain to need to deploy a server as well that hosts this and would take away form the automation I want to have.

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I can create a link to my finished artifact. A c++ compressed Release set.

job_release:
  stage: release
  image: registry.gitlab.com/gitlab-org/release-cli:latest
  needs:
    - job: job_build
      artifacts: true
  rules:
    - if: $CI_COMMIT_TAG
  script:
    - echo "running release_job"
  release: # See https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/yaml/#release for available properties
    tag_name: '$CI_COMMIT_TAG'
    description: 'Release $CI_COMMIT_TAG for $CI_PROJECT_NAME'
    assets:
      links:
        - name: 'ReleaseLinux.zip'
          url: 'https://<myServer>/<group>/<project>/-/jobs/$LINUX_JOB_ID/artifacts/download'
          filepath: '/ReleaseLinux.zip'

I get the $LINUX_JOB from the previous task.
The link works perfectly well (also from the ‘release page’) if I am logged into my user on my browser. On a private window, so a public access, I can see the file and release but i can’t download it which makes kind-of sense as i get a 403 since the file is in the CI which is private.

Steps to reproduce

Make a repo, make the repo code private but the releases public. Write a CI that publishes a job artifact. Done, you can see the release, you can see the link, but you can’t download it.

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Versions

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  • GitLab v16.9.1