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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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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. |
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jaap-jan
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6728a0a597 |
Let the desktop client replace itself, and give the repository one version
Packaging for Windows, and the updater that only exists once something is
packaged. Velopack, win-x64, fed from the project's own forge — never from the
deployment a client signs in to, which is ADR 0011 rule 2 carried over
unchanged and is why the feed address is a constant in the code rather than a
setting. See docs/adr/0012-desktop-distribution-and-updates.md.
**Nothing is ever installed while somebody is using it.** A newer build is found
on a six-hourly pass, downloaded in the background, and then waits — for a
restart the user presses, or for the next launch they were going to do anyway.
That is a policy rather than caution: this application argues at length that
locking keeps shells running, because a lock that destroyed work would stop
being used, and a restart does not keep them. Having taught that, it owes the
user the choice at the one moment it stops being true, and the sentence saying
so counts the shells it would close.
**The version is now derived from the v* tag**, by MinVer, for everything. There
was no version before this — no property anywhere, so every assembly reported
the SDK's 1.0.0 and the API served that string as its serverVersion to every
client that asked. The tag was already the version of record for the container
image; this makes it the version of record full stop. MinVer's failure mode is
answering plausibly rather than failing, and here a wrong version is a client
that never updates, so it is guarded twice: fetch-depth 0 on every checkout, and
a step that fails a tag build when the tag and the computed version disagree.
**The pack id is DodoSSH.Desktop and not DodoSSH**, which is the one decision
here that would have destroyed data. Velopack installs to %LOCALAPPDATA%\<packId>
and removes that whole directory on uninstall, and %LOCALAPPDATA%\DodoSSH is
where ClientPaths keeps the encrypted cache, the outbox of changes not yet
pushed, and the device key. The obvious id would have had the uninstaller
silently delete work the server has never seen — the thing the application
refuses to do without a counted confirmation. Velopack's own advice to move user
data to roaming %APPDATA% is declined for the reason ClientPaths already gives.
**Releases are cut by a person, and CI gains no job that could.** The tempting
argument is that a forge write token is not a signing key. It does not survive
contact with what the token does: Velopack clients trust their feed and do not
verify a package signature when they apply one, so whoever can write a release
can ship an update every install runs. That is the capability ADR 0011 rule 1
puts on a machine which is not a runner, reached through a different door. The
mechanical objection — vpk needs Windows and the runners are Linux — is the
smaller of the two and is recorded beside it, because somebody will fix one and
believe they are done.
Unsigned for now, deliberately and with the cost stated where a user reads it:
SmartScreen warns once per person, on Setup.exe, because Mark-of-the-Web is
applied by the browser that downloaded it. In-app updates are fetched by the
application and applied from a local file, and never trip it.
The banner is a fourth row of the window rather than an overlay. Anything drawn
in the terminal's rectangle is sliced by the native child window that composites
above it — the defect this window has shipped once — and a sibling row is the
arrangement TitleBar and StatusBar already prove works.
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Three defects surfaced on the way, none of them in the feature being built.
**A settings key absent from the file came back as the CLR default, not the
declared one.** The JSON source generator builds a record through a synthesised
parameterised constructor and assigns every property from its argument array, so
a property initializer runs and is then overwritten by a default for anything the
file did not contain. A settings.json of {} read back a font size of 0, clamped
up to the 8px floor rather than the 13px the renderer draws at. It could not bite
while there was one setting, because that setting was written on every save and
so was never absent; adding a second would have turned automatic update checks
off for every existing profile, silently, the opposite of the documented default.
Reflection-based deserialisation of the same JSON answers correctly, which is why
every way of checking it by hand agrees except the one that ships. The defaults
now live on the constructor parameters, which is the only place the generator
reads them from.
**Declaring a RuntimeIdentifier on the desktop head broke the server's image
build.** It is the obvious way to let a self-contained publish restore under
locked mode, and it writes a net10.0/win-x64 target into the lock file of every
project the head references transitively — including DodoSSH.Contracts and
DodoSSH.Crypto, which the API builds too. The Dockerfile restores those with no
RID and fails NU1004. Found by running docker build rather than by reading. The
RID stays out of the committed state; the two commands that need one ask for it
unlocked, and the release script puts the lock files back.
**A Docker ARG named VERSION silently sets MSBuild's Version.** An ARG is an
environment variable for the rest of the stage, MSBuild reads environment
variables as properties, and property names are case-insensitive. With the
workflow passing main-<short sha> on a main build the publish died with
NETSDK1018 pointing at DodoSSH.Contracts, a project nobody had touched. The build
stage's argument is ASSEMBLY_VERSION now, empty except on a tag build.
All three are in docs/platform-flags.md, which is where the next person will look.
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Verified: the whole solution builds and restores locked; 289 shell, 93 layout and
54 session tests pass, including the regression test for the settings defect and
a measurement of the banner at the window's minimum width. vpk pack runs end to
end and reports "Verified VelopackApp.Run()" against Program.Main. The API image
builds correctly both as a main build and as a tag build, carrying 1.0.0 and
0.1.0 respectively.
Not verified, and it needs a published release to be: installing, updating and
uninstalling on a real machine. That is Phase 15 of docs/manual-checks.md, and
the pack id and the WebView2 profile fix are reasoned and commented but only
proved by walking it. Two things to watch at the first upload — the reverse
proxy's body-size limit for a 64 MB asset, and whether vpk upload gitea is happy
with Gitea 1.27.1.
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