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 jaap-jan
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af0e29a98b |
Give the desktop a nightly channel, the way the phone has one
ADR 0014 gave the phone a nightly and ADR 0013 rule 3 gave the desktop none, so the two heads had different answers to the same question — how does somebody try what is on main? — for no reason except the order the work happened in. This is the desktop's answer: CI publishes a build from main on every push, and it installs beside the release one rather than over it. The phone gets its separation from the platform. Android refuses an update signed by a different key, so its two channels cannot replace one another whatever anybody does. Nothing refuses anything here: Velopack applies what its feed serves and verifies no signature. So all of it is construction, and there are four separations because each closes a different door. A pack id each, so the two install in different directories and neither feed's package can be applied to the other's install. A Velopack channel each — win and win-nightly — so neither build ever reads the other's release index; the name reaches the wire as releases.win-nightly.json, which is why the constant in VelopackUpdateChannel and the argument in ci.yml have to agree or the channel answers nothing forever with no error. A prerelease flag, so the release channel cannot see the nightly even by accident. And a profile directory each, which is the one that is easy to skip and would hurt most: the cache schema is migrated on every launch, before unlock, so a shared profile means a nightly quietly upgrading a database the release build then opens. Both are installed at once by design, so that is an ordinary Tuesday rather than a corner case. The prerelease flag turns out to be load-bearing across heads as well. The phone's release channel reads releases/latest, which skips prereleases — so a desktop nightly published as a stable release would become the newest release in this repository and every phone on the release channel would start failing its check against a release carrying no Android manifest. Which build this is arrives as assembly metadata, the same mechanism and the same reasoning as the Android head: the updater needs the string rather than a branch, and a value baked into the assembly is one a crash report can be asked for. Three things read it — the feed, the prerelease flag, and the profile — and one more shows it: the titlebar says DodoSSH Nightly. Everything else that distinguishes the two is somewhere nobody is looking while typing a passphrase into one of them. The version needed a floor and it is applied to the whole build rather than to the packaging. MinVer answers 0.0.0-alpha.0.N until the first v* tag and vpk refuses anything below 0.0.1, so the job lifts the patch digit and keeps the height — through MinVerVersionOverride, so the assemblies carry the same number the installer does. Packing a version the assembly disagreed with would put one string on the preferences screen and another in the feed, which is the screen somebody reads when asked which nightly they are on. Two things found by running it rather than reading it. -t:MinVer needs a restore first, because the target arrives with the package and MSB4057 on a clean checkout reads like a typo in the workflow rather than a missing restore; the release script had the same gap and now restores before it reads. And vpk rejects an empty --packVersion loudly, which is how a broken version handoff announces itself rather than shipping a package called 1.0.0. Rule 3 is untouched. The release channel still has no job, no token and no runner, and the two channels cannot see each other. What a nightly costs is written where somebody reads it before installing one: whoever can write a release here can put a build on every nightly machine, which is fine for a build being tried and is not fine for a build holding somebody's infrastructure credentials. Verified by running the job's own steps against a clone in a Linux container: DodoSSH.Desktop.Nightly-win-nightly-Setup.exe, and an index naming pack id DodoSSH.Desktop.Nightly at 0.0.1-alpha.0.144. The upload itself is the one step not exercised — it needs a real forge and a write token, and check 16.10 is what walks the half no runner can. |
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jaap-jan
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3d3d0bc95f |
Package the Windows client in CI, on the runner that could not
The build job published a win-x64 tree and stopped there, so the half of a release that fails in ways a compile cannot see was proved by nobody until a person was midway through cutting one. It now packs as well: vpk opens the published binaries and verifies the main executable really calls VelopackApp.Build().Run(), which is the check worth having — a refactor that drops that call compiles, tests green, and produces an application that silently never updates itself. The file said this was impossible on Linux, and also said it was fine, in comments forty lines apart. The claim that vpk needs Windows tooling to stamp the Setup.exe stub is the one that was wrong: vpk cross-compiles when told to, and the telling is a bracketed directive before the verb rather than a flag. Plain `vpk pack --runtime win-x64` on a Linux host refuses outright and says so in the message that names the fix. `[win]` must be quoted, or the shell reads it as a glob matching any one of w, i and n. Only signing needs Windows, and nothing here is signed yet. Fixing that does not move ADR 0013 rule 3 an inch, which is why the two reasons were recorded separately in the first place. What may not live on a runner is the token, not the build: Velopack clients apply what their feed serves without verifying a signature, so whoever can write a release can ship an update every install runs. The packages go to RUNNER_TEMP and die with the job. They are not offered as workflow artefacts either — an installer nobody has run should not sit somewhere that invites passing it on. Written out as shell rather than by calling scripts/release-windows.ps1. That script is a person's procedure and holds things a runner must not have and must not skip: it refuses a dirty tree, insists HEAD is tagged, downloads the previous release for deltas, and asks for the forge token. Calling it would mean either weakening it with CI switches or having CI satisfy conditions that only make sense at a desk. The constants the two now share — pack id, title, authors, channel, icon — are a contract with VelopackUpdateChannel and with every installed client, and both sides say so. Two things fell out of running the steps rather than reading them, and both were in code nothing had ever executed: dotnet msbuild -getProperty:Version answers 1.0.0. Without a target named it evaluates the project and runs nothing, and MinVer computes inside a target — so the read comes back as the SDK default on a full checkout with every tag present. That line is the tag check in this file, which is `if:` a tag ref, and there are no tags yet: the first release ever cut would have been refused by its own guard, which would then have blamed fetch-depth. release-windows.ps1 had the same line and would have demanded HEAD be tagged v1.0.0. Both now pass -t:MinVer. And MinVer answers 0.0.0-alpha.0.N until that first tag exists, which vpk rejects outright as below 0.0.1 — so packing the true version could not have worked on any build made today. The patch digit is lifted for the throwaway package only. The release script gets no such floor and must not: its version is the one users compare against, and there the refusal is the right outcome. Verified by extracting both steps from this file and running them against a real clone in a dotnet SDK container: Setup.exe, the portable zip, the .nupkg and releases.win.json, from a machine that is not Windows. |
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jaap-jan
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253c72d2b7 |
Name the organisation the repository actually lives in
It moved to DodoTech-Public, and every address in the product still said DodoTech. That looked like it worked, which is the part worth writing down: Gitea leaves a 301 at the old path and HttpClient follows a redirect on a GET, so both update channels would have kept polling through it. What a 301 does not survive is a POST. `vpk upload gitea` publishes the desktop release by POSTing to that URL, so the stale address would have failed at the one step the whole feature depends on — and a redirect is a thing an operator can delete, which turns "works today" into the same silent outage this session has already spent two commits on. So both channel constants, both release scripts, the workflow's REPO, the image's source label and the curl in phase 16 all name the live path. The local remote too, which had been printing a redirect warning on every push. Measured after the move: the org, the repo and the nightly release all answer 200 anonymously, and that release now carries both assets — the manifest and a 54 MB APK. The upload going through also answers the open question about the reverse proxy's body-size limit, which nothing local could test. |
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jaap-jan
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9a7e3bbd5c |
Let a failed update check say so, instead of reporting good news
The phone reported every build as current because the release repository is private. Gitea answers 404 rather than 403 for a repo you cannot see, the client reads that address anonymously, and AndroidUpdateChannel caught the failure and returned null — which IUpdateChannel documented as meaning "this build is the latest". The check had never once succeeded on any phone and nothing anywhere said so. Two faults, and the second is why the first lasted. The seam said null was the honest answer for an unreachable channel, on the reasoning that the caller does the same thing either way. That is true of the six-hourly pass and false of CHECK NOW. UpdateViewModel already draws the line correctly — silent on the timer, the exception's message on the button — and it could only ever draw the first half, because nothing was ever thrown at it. The desktop's channel does not catch, so the interface described neither implementation. So CheckAsync throws now, and null means one thing. A release that is reachable but missing its manifest or the APK it names throws too: "you are up to date" about a half-published feed is the same lie in a smaller costume, and the self-healing that argument protected is untouched, since the timer still swallows everything. The precondition is written down where somebody would look, rather than left as a sentence about where a token could live. ADR 0013 §4 already said a private release repository was incompatible with this design; nobody checked which side of it this repository was on. It is one curl, and manual-checks phase 16 now opens with it — pointedly not against /api/v1/version, which answers 200 from a forge that is up whatever is readable on it, and which is what made this look like nothing was wrong. Phone check 17.4 was the one that passed all along. It now presses CHECK NOW with the network off as well as on, because two different answers are the whole of what makes the first one worth reading. |
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jaap-jan
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3ead865f01 |
Merge branch 'main' into the desktop updater, and give way on two numbers
Main landed a realtime push feature while this branch was building the updater, and the two collided in three places. Every one of them resolves the same way: main got there first, so this branch moves. **Two ADRs were both numbered 0012.** Main's is realtime push; this one is now [ADR 0013](docs/adr/0013-desktop-distribution-and-updates.md). Git did not call this a conflict — the filenames differ — so it would have merged quietly and left the directory with two 0012s and every cross-reference ambiguous. Renumbered here along with the nine places that point at it. **Two manual-check phases were both numbered 15**, and that one git did catch. Main's "Changes that arrive without a timer" keeps 15; installing and updating the desktop client becomes Phase 16, with its checks and every reference to them renumbered. The file's own rule is that a number is for life, which is exactly why the one that had not been pushed is the one that gives way. **The merge rewrote several files with CRLF**, and `.editorconfig` asks for LF on everything except `*.ps1`. That is not cosmetic here: IDE0055 is an error and `EnforceCodeStyleInBuild` is on, so it failed the build on three lines of App.axaml.cs whose only change in this branch was an ADR number in a comment. Forty-six files normalised back to LF; the release script keeps CRLF, which is what `.gitattributes` and `.editorconfig` both already say for a PowerShell file. Nothing else conflicted. The updater does not touch the sync loop or the event stream, and the one file both sides edited heavily — MainWindowViewModel — merged without a hunk in common. Verified after merging: the solution restores locked and builds clean, and 304 shell, 100 layout, 54 session, 28 client-api and 25 contracts tests pass. The first two counts are higher than before the merge because main's own tests came with it and pass alongside these. |