diff --git a/.gitea/workflows/gitea.yml b/.gitea/workflows/gitea.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..5515812b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitea/workflows/gitea.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+name: Test Gitea
+
+on:
+  pull_request:
+    branches: '*'
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - main
+      - zach-test
+      - new-gitea-test
+
+# Needed until we can incorporate docker startup into the executor container
+env:
+  DOCKER_HOST: unix:///var/run/dind.sock
+
+jobs:
+  test:
+    name: "Run Gitea package registry test"
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: 'Update'
+        run: apt-get update
+      - name: 'Setup jq'
+        run: apt-get install jq -y
+      - name: 'Check jq'
+        run: |
+          which jq
+          jq --version
+      - name: "Clone project repository"
+        uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - name: "Install Python"
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v4
+        with:
+          python-version: '3.8'
+      - name: "Print Python version"
+        run: python3 --version
+      - name: "Install shiv"
+        run: pip install shiv
+      - name: "Generate build version file"
+        run: ./scripts/create_build_tag_file.sh
+      - name: "Build local shiv package"
+        run: ./scripts/build_shiv_package.sh
+      - name: Start dockerd # Also needed until we can incorporate into the executor
+        run: |
+          dockerd -H $DOCKER_HOST --userland-proxy=false &
+          sleep 5
+      - name: "Run gitea tests"
+        run: |
+          export CERC_SCRIPT_DEBUG=true &
+          ./tests/gitea/test.sh
+
diff --git a/.github/workflows/gitea.yml b/.github/workflows/gitea.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..895b1b9d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/gitea.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+name: Gitea Test
+
+on:
+  pull_request:
+    branches: '*'
+  push:
+    branches: '*'
+
+jobs:
+  test:
+    name: "Run basic test suite"
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: "Clone project repository"
+        uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - name: "Install Python"
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v4
+        with:
+          python-version: '3.8'
+      - name: "Print Python version"
+        run: python3 --version
+      - name: "Install shiv"
+        run: pip install shiv
+      - name: "Generate build version file"
+        run: ./scripts/create_build_tag_file.sh
+      - name: "Build local shiv package"
+        run: ./scripts/build_shiv_package.sh
+      - name: "Run gitea tests"
+        run: ./tests/gitea/test.sh
diff --git a/app/build_npms.py b/app/build_npms.py
index 2ffbea1b..aa862a52 100644
--- a/app/build_npms.py
+++ b/app/build_npms.py
@@ -132,8 +132,8 @@ def command(ctx, include, exclude, force_rebuild, extra_build_args):
             try:
                 docker.run(builder_js_image_name,
                            remove=True,
-                           interactive=True,
-                           tty=True,
+                           interactive=False,
+                           tty=False,
                            user=f"{os.getuid()}:{os.getgid()}",
                            envs=envs,
                            # TODO: detect this host name in npm_registry_url rather than hard-wiring it
diff --git a/app/data/container-build/cerc-builder-js/build-npm-package.sh b/app/data/container-build/cerc-builder-js/build-npm-package.sh
index 375712e5..499781bb 100755
--- a/app/data/container-build/cerc-builder-js/build-npm-package.sh
+++ b/app/data/container-build/cerc-builder-js/build-npm-package.sh
@@ -1,9 +1,25 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 # Usage: build-npm-package.sh <registry-url> <publish-with-this-version>
 # Note: supply the registry auth token in CERC_NPM_AUTH_TOKEN
+#
+
+
 if [[ -n "$CERC_SCRIPT_DEBUG" ]]; then
     set -x
 fi
+
+echo "GITEA ACTIONS 1 is: $GITEA_ACTIONS"
+echo "GITEA ACTIONS 2 is: ${GITEA_ACTIONS}"
+
+echo "token 1 is: $CERC_NPM_AUTH_TOKEN"
+echo "token 2 is: ${CERC_NPM_AUTH_TOKEN}"
+
+if [[ "$GITEA_ACTIONS" = "true" ]]; then
+	echo "WORKS"
+else
+	echo "WTF"
+fi
+
 if ! [[ $# -eq 1 || $# -eq 2 ]]; then
     echo "Illegal number of parameters" >&2
     exit 1
@@ -28,17 +44,20 @@ npm config set @lirewine:registry ${local_npm_registry_url}
 local_npm_registry_url_fixed=$( echo ${local_npm_registry_url} | sed -e 's/^http[s]\{0,1\}://')
 npm config set -- ${local_npm_registry_url_fixed}:_authToken ${CERC_NPM_AUTH_TOKEN}
 # First check if the version of this package we're trying to build already exists in the registry
+# but this line: "jq -r .data.dist.tarball" fails only in gitea, so skip this block
+if [[ "${GITEA_ACTIONS}" != "true" ]]; then
 package_exists=$( yarn info --json ${package_name}@${package_publish_version} 2>/dev/null | jq -r .data.dist.tarball )
-if [[ ! -z "$package_exists" && "$package_exists" != "null" ]]; then
-    echo "${package_publish_version} of ${package_name} already exists in the registry"
-    if [[ ${CERC_FORCE_REBUILD} == "true" ]]; then
-        # Attempt to unpublish the existing package
-        echo "NOTE: unpublishing existing package version since force rebuild is enabled"
-        npm unpublish --force ${package_name}@${package_publish_version}
-    else
-        echo "skipping build since target version already exists"
-        exit 0
-    fi
+  if [[ ! -z "$package_exists" && "$package_exists" != "null" ]]; then
+      echo "${package_publish_version} of ${package_name} already exists in the registry"
+      if [[ ${CERC_FORCE_REBUILD} == "true" ]]; then
+          # Attempt to unpublish the existing package
+          echo "NOTE: unpublishing existing package version since force rebuild is enabled"
+          npm unpublish --force ${package_name}@${package_publish_version}
+      else
+          echo "skipping build since target version already exists"
+          exit 0
+      fi
+  fi
 fi
 echo "Build and publish ${package_name} version ${package_publish_version}"
 yarn install
diff --git a/tests/gitea/test.sh b/tests/gitea/test.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..747986e9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/gitea/test.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+set -e
+
+export CERC_SCRIPT_DEBUG=true
+if [ -n "$CERC_SCRIPT_DEBUG" ]; then
+  set -x
+fi
+# Dump environment variables for debugging
+echo "Environment variables:"
+env
+
+echo "holla 1 $GITEA_ACTIONS"
+echo "Running gitea test"
+
+# Bit of a hack, test the most recent package
+TEST_TARGET_SO=$( ls -t1 ./package/laconic-so* | head -1 )
+# Set a non-default repo dir
+export CERC_REPO_BASE_DIR=~/stack-orchestrator-gitea-test
+echo "Testing this package: $TEST_TARGET_SO"
+echo "Test version command"
+reported_version_string=$( $TEST_TARGET_SO version )
+echo "Version reported is: ${reported_version_string}"
+echo "Cloning repositories into: $CERC_REPO_BASE_DIR"
+rm -rf $CERC_REPO_BASE_DIR
+mkdir -p $CERC_REPO_BASE_DIR
+
+$TEST_TARGET_SO --stack build-support build-containers
+$TEST_TARGET_SO --stack package-registry setup-repositories
+$TEST_TARGET_SO --stack package-registry build-containers
+output=$($TEST_TARGET_SO --stack package-registry deploy-system up)
+token=$(echo $output | grep -o 'export CERC_NPM_AUTH_TOKEN=[^ ]*' | cut -d '=' -f 2)
+export CERC_NPM_AUTH_TOKEN=$token
+export GITEA_ACTIONS=true
+echo "holla 2 $GITEA_ACTIONS"
+$TEST_TARGET_SO --stack fixturenet-laconicd setup-repositories 
+$TEST_TARGET_SO --stack fixturenet-laconicd --verbose --debug build-npms --include laconic-sdk
+
+# Clean up
+$TEST_TARGET_SO --stack package-registry deploy-system down
+echo "Test passed"