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 jaap-jan
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ca7fee2358 |
Start the confirmation Android hands back, so an update can install
Pressing INSTALL closed the application, installed nothing and said nothing. That is two independent faults in one method, either of which breaks it on its own, and they hid each other: the first kills the process before the second can be observed, and the second is silent by construction. The pending intent handed to commit was implicit — an action string with no component behind it. A mutable pending intent may not wrap one of those from API 34, and this head targets 36, so every current phone threw IllegalArgumentException before commit was reached. Nothing caught it, so it left the command handler, passed the dispatcher and took the process with it. That is the closing. Below 34, where it did not throw, it still installed nothing. An application holding REQUEST_INSTALL_PACKAGES rather than the privileged INSTALL_PACKAGES gets no verdict back from a commit: what the platform answers first is STATUS_PENDING_USER_ACTION, carrying the activity that draws the dialogue in EXTRA_INTENT for the application to start. Android does not draw it on its own. The comment here asserted the opposite — that a pending intent is required whether or not anything listens, and that nothing needed to — so no receiver was ever written, and the session was written, committed and left staged forever. So there is a receiver now, not exported because the only sender is this application's own commit, and the intent naming it is explicit, which is the same change that stops the throw. Sessions are abandoned when anything fails, since one created and neither committed nor abandoned stays staged against a per-application cap — a repeating fault would have started failing at CreateSession instead, which is the same bug wearing a completely unrelated face. The reporting is the part worth keeping even after the cause is gone. Where applying ends the process an exception has nowhere to go; where it does not, which is this head's whole shape, it goes out through the dispatcher. RestartNowAsync now answers the way CheckNowAsync already did, and the regression test asserts the absence of a throw rather than the presence of one. ADR 0014 rule 6 gets the correction in place: "asks Android to ask" is one step longer than it reads. Check 17.5 needed no rewording — it asks for the installer appearing by name, which is exactly the thing that never happened — so what it gets instead is the two symptoms named, because both present as a dead button. It is the only thing in the project that can catch either, and it plainly was never run against a real pair of builds. Note for whoever takes the next nightly: a broken updater cannot install its own fix. The phone is running the code this commit replaces, so the first build carrying it has to be sideloaded by hand; the ones after that install normally. Compile-verified and manifest-verified — the receiver reaches the generated manifest — and 321 tests pass. Not run on a device, which is what 17.5 is for. |
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jaap-jan
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b4a6c19ac1 |
Let the phone replace itself, and give CI a channel it may sign
The Android head had no updater and no release path, and the two are one problem: Android refuses an update signed by a different key, and CI generates a fresh debug key in every container. An APK released from a workflow could be installed once and never updated again — each new one an uninstall, which on this product means losing the cache, the outbox and the device key. So there are two channels, and they are two applications because the platform gives no third option. dev.dodotech.dodossh is cut from a v* tag by a person running scripts/release-android.ps1 with the key ADR 0011 rule 1 keeps off runners. dev.dodotech.dodossh.nightly is cut from main by CI and signed with a keystore committed here in the open — a key everybody has cannot be stolen and grants nothing by being held, which is why putting it in CI does not touch the rule. Neither can update the other, by construction. See ADR 0014. The android job assumed an image with a JDK and an Android SDK on it, which is what a GitHub runner is and what this project's is not. It now installs a JDK, fetches Google's command-line tools, accepts the licences and installs API 36 — each a no-op where it is already satisfied, and each cached by the persistent runner's own disk rather than by an action that would move a quarter of a gigabyte to rebuild a directory that never left. The client reads a small JSON manifest beside the APK, the counterpart of releases.win.json, and compares Android's versionCode rather than a version name: that integer is what the platform itself uses to accept or refuse an install, so comparing anything else would offer updates the phone then rejects. It fetches, and then asks Android to ask — the system draws its own confirmation, and from API 26 will not draw even that until unknown sources is on for this application. IUpdateChannel gained ApplyingEndsTheProcess. On Windows applying replaces the files and restarts, so the shell disposes the vault first and that is what zeroes the keys. On the phone the install is a request and the answer may be no, so disposing first would answer "not now" with a locked keychain and every shell closed — a punishment for declining an update. Two measured bugs found on the way, both older than this work and both invisible to a -getProperty check. ApplicationDisplayVersion is read by the Android targets in a top-level PropertyGroup, so the target setting it from MinVer ran after the only thing that reads it: every APK ever built here said versionName 1.0.0. And nothing found so far varies the launcher name per channel — four mechanisms tried, all of them recorded in platform-flags, none of them reaching the label the launcher shows. The two channels share an icon name for now and are told apart by package name, version, and what the preferences screen says. |
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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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