chore: remove unused rar tooling from CI [AI-assisted] (#1020)

The codebase no longer extracts RAR archives, so CI should not install or validate unrar/unar/7zip binaries. Keeping only git as an explicit system dependency reduces CI setup overhead and removes misleading platform checks. Also removes the unused algerian_ministry_rar_filename config field to keep configuration aligned with ZIP-based processing.

Co-authored-by: florath-ai-assistant[bot] <Andreas.Florath@telekom.de>

Author: coding-ai-assistant[bot]

.github/workflows/ci.yml

@@ -272,22 +272,19 @@ jobs:
       if: matrix.os == 'ubuntu-latest'
       run: |
         sudo apt-get update
-        sudo apt-get install -y unrar git curl
+        sudo apt-get install -y git
 
     - name: Install system dependencies (macOS)
       if: matrix.os == 'macos-latest'
       run: |
-        # Install unar (macOS equivalent of unrar)
-        brew install unar || echo "RAR tools installation failed"
-        # git and curl are pre-installed on macOS
+        # git is pre-installed on GitHub Actions macOS runners
+        git --version
 
     - name: Install system dependencies (Windows)
       if: matrix.os == 'windows-latest'
       run: |
-        # Install via chocolatey (available on GitHub Actions Windows runners)
-        choco install unrar -y || echo "unrar installation failed, trying 7zip"
-        choco install 7zip -y || echo "7zip installation failed"
         # git is pre-installed on GitHub Actions Windows runners
+        git --version
 
     - name: Setup Unicode encoding for Windows
       if: matrix.os == 'windows-latest'
@@ -408,20 +405,6 @@ jobs:
                 return False
 
         commands = ['python', 'git']
-        # Check for RAR tools on non-Windows platforms
-        if '${{ matrix.os }}' == 'macos-latest':
-            # Try both unar and unrar on macOS
-            for cmd in ['unar', 'unrar']:
-                try:
-                    subprocess.run([cmd, '--help'], capture_output=True, timeout=10)
-                    commands.append(cmd)
-                    print(f'[INFO] Using {cmd} for RAR support on macOS')
-                    break
-                except:
-                    continue
-        elif '${{ matrix.os }}' == 'ubuntu-latest':
-            commands.append('unrar')
-
         all_good = all(check_command(cmd) for cmd in commands)
         status = 'PASSED' if all_good else 'PARTIAL'
         print(f'Platform validation: {status}')
@@ -486,4 +469,4 @@ jobs:
       if: ${{ needs.ruff-lint.result == 'failure' || needs.mypy-check.result == 'failure' || needs.custom-checks.result == 'failure' || needs.test.result == 'failure' || needs.security-scan.result == 'failure' || needs.build.result == 'failure' || needs.cross-platform-integration.result == 'failure' || needs.performance-tests.result == 'failure' }}
       run: |
         echo "❌ Some checks failed!"
-        exit 1
+        exit 1

src/aletheia_probe/config.py

@@ -73,9 +73,6 @@ class DataSourceUrlConfig(BaseModel):
         "https://dgrsdt.dz/storage/revus/",
         description="Base URL for Algerian Ministry data",
     )
-    algerian_ministry_rar_filename: str = Field(
-        "revues.rar", description="RAR filename for Algerian Ministry data"
-    )
     retraction_watch_repo_url: str = Field(
         "https://gitlab.com/crossref/retraction-watch-data.git",
         description="Git repository URL for Retraction Watch data",