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jaap-jan 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.
2026-08-05 22:35:51 +02:00

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name: ci
on:
push:
branches: [main]
# Release tags run the whole workflow, not only the image job that gates on it. A tag
# is the one build nobody is watching, so it is the last place to take the tests on
# trust.
tags: ['v*']
pull_request:
branches: [main]
# Actions are pinned to commit SHAs, not tags: a tag can be moved to point at new code,
# which would let a compromised action run with this workflow's permissions.
permissions:
contents: read
concurrency:
group: ci-${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}
cancel-in-progress: true
env:
DOTNET_NOLOGO: true
DOTNET_CLI_TELEMETRY_OPTOUT: true
DOTNET_SKIP_FIRST_TIME_EXPERIENCE: true
CI: true
jobs:
build:
name: build and test
runs-on: [linux]
steps:
# act_runner runs every `uses:` action with node inside the job container, and this
# runner's image has none — the run died on the first line of actions/checkout with
# "Cannot find: node in PATH". A `run:` step is shell rather than node, so this one
# can go first and unblock the rest.
#
# This is a workaround and the real fix is one line of the runner's own config.yaml:
# point container.image at an image that ships node, the way Gitea's default
# catthehacker/ubuntu:act-latest does. Kept anyway, because a pipeline that depends
# on a runner being configured correctly somewhere else fails confusingly when it is
# not, and because it costs nothing on a runner that is.
#
# git as well as node, and said in the step name rather than smuggled in: checkout
# shells out to git the moment node has loaded it, so an image thin enough to lack
# one usually lacks the other, and learning that costs a whole second CI round trip.
#
# Repeated verbatim in all three jobs, which is not laziness. It cannot be a local
# composite action — that would need the checkout it exists to unblock — and YAML
# anchors, which would deduplicate it, are rejected by GitHub's parser and would make
# this file portable to nothing. Change one copy, change all three.
- name: ensure node and git
run: |
set -eu
SUDO=""
[ "$(id -u)" -eq 0 ] || SUDO="sudo"
missing=""
command -v node >/dev/null 2>&1 || missing="$missing nodejs"
command -v git >/dev/null 2>&1 || missing="$missing git"
if [ -z "$missing" ]; then
echo "node $(node --version), git $(git --version)"
exit 0
fi
echo "Installing:$missing"
if command -v apt-get >/dev/null 2>&1; then
$SUDO apt-get update -qq
$SUDO apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends $missing
elif command -v apk >/dev/null 2>&1; then
$SUDO apk add --no-cache $missing
elif command -v dnf >/dev/null 2>&1; then
$SUDO dnf install -y $missing
else
echo "No apt-get, apk or dnf here, so node cannot be installed from inside the" >&2
echo "job. Point the runner's container.image at something that ships node." >&2
exit 1
fi
echo "node $(node --version), git $(git --version)"
# Warned about rather than failed on. Distributions pin their nodejs package to
# the release they shipped with — Ubuntu 24.04 still serves 18, which is past end
# of life and older than the runtime these actions declare. It generally runs
# them anyway, since act_runner uses whichever node is on PATH regardless of what
# the action asked for, so this is a note for when one of them misbehaves in a
# way that makes no sense, not a reason to stop a build that is probably fine.
major="$(node --version | sed 's/^v//; s/\..*//')"
if [ "$major" -lt 20 ]; then
echo "::warning::node $major is older than the runtime these actions target;" \
"give the runner an image with node 20 or newer if actions misbehave."
fi
# fetch-depth 0, and it is load-bearing rather than tidy. MinVer derives the version from the
# nearest v* tag, and checkout's default shallow clone has no tags at all — so it would not fail,
# it would quietly answer 0.0.0-alpha.0.N and every build would ship that. Velopack decides
# whether an installed client is out of date by comparing versions, which makes a plausible wrong
# answer here a client that never updates.
#
# Repeated in all three jobs, like the node preamble above and for the same reason. Change one
# copy, change all three.
- uses: actions/checkout@3d3c42e5aac5ba805825da76410c181273ba90b1 # v7.0.1
with:
fetch-depth: 0
# cache: true is actions/cache underneath, keyed on the lock files. That needs a cache server,
# which act_runner ships and can be turned off — and when it is off, this does nothing at all and
# says nothing about it. See the step below, which is how you find out.
- uses: actions/setup-dotnet@a98b56852c35b8e3190ac28c8c2271da59106c68 # v6.0.0
with:
global-json-file: global.json
cache: true
cache-dependency-path: '**/packages.lock.json'
# ◆ ONE LINE, AND IT EXISTS BECAUSE THE ALTERNATIVE IS ASSUMING.
#
# A restore that is cold every single run and a cache working perfectly look identical from
# outside: both end in a green build, and the only difference is minutes. This job's whole
# package cache is the step above, so whether that step works is worth knowing as a fact rather
# than as a belief — and it is one `find` before anything has written to the folder.
#
# It does not fail the build. A runner with no cache server is slow rather than wrong, and a
# pipeline that refused to run on one would be a worse trade than the minutes.
- name: what the package cache brought
run: |
set -eu
root="${NUGET_PACKAGES:-$HOME/.nuget/packages}"
if [ -d "$root" ]; then
echo "$root holds $(find "$root" -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d | wc -l) package(s) already."
else
echo "$root is not there, so this restore is cold."
echo "If every run says that, the cache above is doing nothing: check that this runner's"
echo "config.yaml has the cache server enabled, and that ACTIONS_CACHE_URL reaches it."
fi
# Locked mode fails if packages.lock.json does not match the project files, so a
# dependency cannot change without the lock file change being reviewed.
- name: restore
run: dotnet restore DodoSSH.slnx --locked-mode
# The version comes from the tag, so on a tag build there are two ways to say the same number
# and they can disagree — a moved tag, a tag on the wrong commit, or a checkout that somehow
# still lost its history. What makes that worth a step of its own is that the disagreement is
# silent everywhere else: MinVer answers 0.0.0-alpha.0.N rather than failing, the build goes
# green, the package is cut, and the symptom arrives weeks later as clients that never update.
#
# -getProperty evaluates without building, so this costs a second and runs before the build.
#
# ◆ -t:MinVer IS NOT OPTIONAL, AND WITHOUT IT THIS STEP FAILED EVERY TAG BUILD.
#
# -getProperty on its own evaluates the project and runs no targets, and MinVer sets Version
# from inside a target — so what came back was the SDK's default 1.0.0, for any tag, on any
# commit, in a clean checkout with every tag present. The step would have failed the first
# release ever cut and blamed fetch-depth for it, which is the one explanation that is not it.
# Naming a target makes -getProperty report the value after that target has run.
#
# Never exercised, because no v* tag exists yet: this whole step is `if:` a tag ref. It is the
# shape of bug a guard is prone to — the guard is the thing nothing tests, and it only speaks
# on the one build nobody is watching, which is the reason this step exists at all.
- name: the tag and the version agree
if: startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/tags/v')
run: |
set -euo pipefail
tag="${GITHUB_REF#refs/tags/v}"
declared="$(dotnet msbuild src/DodoSSH.Client.App/DodoSSH.Client.App.csproj \
-getProperty:Version -t:MinVer -nologo | tr -d '[:space:]')"
if [ "$tag" != "$declared" ]; then
echo "The tag says v$tag and MinVer computed $declared." >&2
echo >&2
echo "These come from the same place, so a mismatch means the checkout did not see the" >&2
echo "tag it is building — most likely fetch-depth, which must stay 0 in every job here." >&2
exit 1
fi
echo "v$declared"
# No `dotnet format --verify-no-changes` step. It re-analysed the whole solution before
# the build did, for minutes, to check something the build already checks: IDE0055 is an
# error in .editorconfig and TreatWarningsAsErrors is on, so a misformatted file fails
# the build step below on its own. What the separate step added was the ability to say
# so a few minutes earlier, and it cost more than that on every run.
# Avalonia's headless renderer is still Skia, and libSkiaSharp.so — which the layout
# test project copies into its own output — links against libfontconfig. Without that
# one library every test in DodoSSH.Client.App.Layout.Tests dies inside
# HeadlessUnitTestSession before it measures anything, and 69 tests fail for a reason
# none of their names or assertions mention.
#
# The library, and not fonts. Verified in a container where fc-list returns zero and
# the suite passes anyway: the application carries Inter itself, so nothing here needs
# a typeface installed — only the thing that would have gone looking for one.
- name: ensure skia's native dependency
run: |
set -eu
SUDO=""
[ "$(id -u)" -eq 0 ] || SUDO="sudo"
if ldconfig -p 2>/dev/null | grep -q 'libfontconfig\.so\.1'; then
echo "libfontconfig present"
exit 0
fi
echo "Installing fontconfig"
if command -v apt-get >/dev/null 2>&1; then
$SUDO apt-get update -qq
$SUDO apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends libfontconfig1
elif command -v apk >/dev/null 2>&1; then
$SUDO apk add --no-cache fontconfig
elif command -v dnf >/dev/null 2>&1; then
$SUDO dnf install -y fontconfig
else
echo "No package manager here, so Skia cannot be given its dependency and the" >&2
echo "layout suite will fail to start. Add fontconfig to the runner's image." >&2
exit 1
fi
- name: build
run: dotnet build DodoSSH.slnx --no-restore --configuration Release
- name: test
run: dotnet test DodoSSH.slnx --no-build --configuration Release
# The one build shape nothing else here exercises: a self-contained RID-specific publish. Its
# failure mode is a restore graph or a native asset that resolves for net10.0 and not for
# net10.0/win-x64, which nobody would see until a person was halfway through cutting a release
# on a Windows machine.
#
# RestoreLockedMode=false for this command only, and it is not a loosened gate. The committed
# lock files are deliberately RID-free: declaring win-x64 on the desktop head writes a
# net10.0/win-x64 target into every project it references transitively, which includes
# DodoSSH.Contracts and DodoSSH.Crypto — and the API's Dockerfile restores those with no RID
# under locked mode, so the image job would fail NU1004. The gate is the locked solution
# restore at the top of this job, which is unchanged.
#
# It rewrites the lock files as it goes; nothing after it reads them, and the runner's
# checkout is thrown away. The release script does the same thing and puts them back, because
# there the tree is somebody's working copy.
#
# After the tests rather than before them, so a red suite does not first spend a hundred
# megabytes pulling a win-x64 runtime pack. main and tags only, for the same reason: a break
# found by the person about to release is found early enough.
#
# The output directory is read by the packaging step below, so the two names have to agree.
- name: publish the windows desktop client
if: github.event_name != 'pull_request'
run: >
dotnet publish src/DodoSSH.Client.App/DodoSSH.Client.App.csproj
--configuration Release --runtime win-x64 --self-contained true
-p:RestoreLockedMode=false
--output "$RUNNER_TEMP/win-x64"
# ◆ THE WINDOWS INSTALLER IS BUILT HERE, ON LINUX, AND IS DELIBERATELY THROWN AWAY.
#
# Packaging rather than only publishing, for the same reason the android job packages an APK
# nobody installs: the failures a release is most exposed to are the ones only the packager
# finds. vpk opens the published binaries and verifies that the main executable really calls
# VelopackApp.Build().Run() — so a refactor that drops that call, which compiles, tests green
# and produces an application that silently never updates itself, fails here instead of
# shipping. A publish alone cannot see that, and the person who would otherwise see it first is
# the one midway through a release.
#
# ◆ NOT WITH scripts/release-windows.ps1. That script is a person's release 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 to build deltas against, and in its second phase asks
# for the forge token. Calling it from here would mean either weakening it with CI switches or
# having CI meet conditions that only make sense at a desk. So the packaging arguments below
# are written out again in shell, and the duplication is accepted and stated: the pack id, the
# title, the authors, the channel and the icon are a contract with VelopackUpdateChannel and
# with every installed client. Change one, change the other.
#
# ◆ AND CROSS-COMPILING NEEDS THE OS DIRECTIVE, WHICH IS EASY TO MISS.
#
# vpk picks its target from the host: on Linux, plain `vpk pack` builds a Linux release and
# refuses a Windows RID outright — "the target rid must be Linux (actually was Windows)". The
# bracketed [win] before the verb is what turns it into a cross-compile, and it must be quoted
# or the shell reads it as a glob matching any one of w, i and n. With it, the runner writes
# DodoSSH.Desktop-win-Setup.exe, the portable zip, the full .nupkg and releases.win.json,
# exactly as a Windows machine does. Only signing needs Windows tooling, and nothing here is
# signed — see ADR 0013 rule 8 for the trigger that changes.
#
# ◆ NOTHING IS UPLOADED, AND NOTHING IS EVEN OFFERED FOR DOWNLOAD.
#
# The output goes to RUNNER_TEMP and dies with the job. That is the whole point rather than an
# omission: ADR 0013 rule 3 puts the capability to ship somebody a build on a machine which is
# not a runner, because Velopack clients apply what their feed serves without verifying a
# signature. Publishing a CI-built package as a workflow artefact would not cross that line by
# itself, and it would put an installer nobody has run in a place that invites passing it on —
# so it is not done either. What reaches users is built, installed and walked through Phase 16
# of docs/manual-checks.md by a person first.
- name: package the windows desktop client
if: github.event_name != 'pull_request'
run: |
set -euo pipefail
# vpk comes from the tool manifest, at the version committed there, which is the same one
# the release script uses. Restored here rather than in a step of its own because this is
# the only job that needs a tool at all.
dotnet tool restore
# The same value the release script packs with, read the same way. A version vpk disagrees
# with the assemblies about is a client that compares wrongly, so it is read from MSBuild
# rather than reconstructed from the ref — a main build has no tag to reconstruct from
# anyway, and MinVer's answer there carries the prerelease height that tells two of them
# apart.
#
# -t:MinVer for the reason spelled out on the tag check above: without a target named,
# -getProperty answers 1.0.0 and every package would carry the same version forever, which
# Velopack reads as "no update available".
version="$(dotnet msbuild src/DodoSSH.Client.App/DodoSSH.Client.App.csproj \
-getProperty:Version -t:MinVer -nologo | tr -d '[:space:]')"
if [ -z "$version" ]; then
echo "Could not read the version from MSBuild." >&2
exit 1
fi
# ◆ AND A FLOOR UNDER IT, BECAUSE MINVER'S PRE-FIRST-TAG ANSWER IS ONE vpk REFUSES.
#
# Until a v* tag exists MinVer answers 0.0.0-alpha.0.N — correct, documented, and rejected
# outright by vpk: "Invalid package version '0.0.0-alpha.0.143', it must be >= 0.0.1". So
# today, and on every main build until the first release, packing the true version cannot
# work at all.
#
# The patch digit is lifted and the prerelease part kept, so the stand-in still sorts below
# anything real and still differs between commits. Sound only because this package is
# thrown away: what is being proved here is that the desktop client packages, and no client
# will ever see this number. The release script is not given a floor and must not be — its
# version is the one users compare against, and if MinVer ever answered 0.0.0 there the
# right outcome is the refusal.
packVersion="$version"
case "$packVersion" in
0.0.0*)
packVersion="0.0.1${packVersion#0.0.0}"
echo "MinVer says $version, which vpk will not pack; packaging as $packVersion."
echo "This disappears the moment a v* tag exists, and never reaches a release."
;;
esac
releases="$RUNNER_TEMP/win-releases"
# --skip-updates because vpk otherwise asks nuget.org whether a newer vpk exists on every
# run, which is a network call whose answer this build must not act on: the version that
# packs is the one in the tool manifest.
#
# No `vpk download`, where the release script has one. That fetches the previous release so
# deltas can be built against it, which needs the feed and produces an artefact nobody
# applies. A full package proves the packaging.
dotnet vpk '[win]' pack \
--skip-updates \
--packId DodoSSH.Desktop \
--packVersion "$packVersion" \
--packDir "$RUNNER_TEMP/win-x64" \
--packTitle DodoSSH \
--packAuthors DodoTech \
--mainExe DodoSSH.exe \
--icon src/DodoSSH.Client.App/Assets/dodossh.ico \
--runtime win-x64 \
--channel win \
--outputDir "$releases"
# Asked for rather than assumed. vpk fails loudly and this costs a line, but the artefact
# whose existence is the entire question — a Windows setup stub built on a machine that is
# not Windows — is worth naming rather than inferring from an exit code.
setup="$releases/DodoSSH.Desktop-win-Setup.exe"
if [ ! -s "$setup" ]; then
echo "vpk reported success and there is no setup executable at $setup." >&2
ls -la "$releases" >&2 || true
exit 1
fi
ls -la "$releases"
echo "Packaged DodoSSH $packVersion for win-x64, from a build MinVer calls $version."
# This includes the end-to-end suite, which starts PostgreSQL, Keycloak and an OpenSSH
# server through Testcontainers and runs the API as a child process — so it needs a
# Docker daemon and gets one here. That is why the tests run on ubuntu rather than
# macOS, whose runners have no daemon at all. Expect the Keycloak image pull to
# dominate a cold run.
# A failing run says only that tests failed and names a log file on a machine nobody
# has a shell on. Every diagnostic thing — exception type, message, stack — is inside
# that file, so a red build was a filename and a guess. This prints it.
#
# head rather than tail, and that is the whole trick: when a suite fails wholesale it
# writes one stack per test and they are all the same stack. The first is the one that
# explains it, and the last two hundred lines are the same sentence repeated.
- name: what actually failed
if: failure()
run: |
set +e
echo "=== distro ==="
cat /etc/os-release 2>/dev/null | head -3
id
echo "=== what Skia needs, and whether it is here ==="
# ldd against the copy the test project carries. Its unresolved rows are the
# answer whenever the layout suite dies in HeadlessUnitTestSession, and asking
# here beats inferring it from a managed TypeInitializationException.
skia="$(find tests -name 'libSkiaSharp.so' 2>/dev/null | head -1)"
if [ -n "$skia" ]; then
echo "$skia"
ldd "$skia" 2>&1 | grep -Ei 'not found|fontconfig|freetype' || echo " all resolved"
else
echo " libSkiaSharp.so was not in the test output at all"
fi
ldconfig -p 2>/dev/null | grep -ci fontconfig | sed 's/^/fontconfig entries in ldconfig: /'
echo "=== docker, for the Testcontainers suites ==="
docker version --format '{{.Server.Version}}' 2>&1 | head -2
echo "=== test logs ==="
find tests -path '*/TestResults/*.log' 2>/dev/null | while read -r log; do
echo "----- $log"
head -n 120 "$log"
done
exit 0
android:
name: android head
runs-on: [linux]
# Writes the nightly release at the end of the job; see that step for what the capability is and why
# it is acceptable here and nowhere else. Job-scoped, so nothing else in this file gains it.
permissions:
contents: write
steps:
# Duplicated from the build job; see the comment there for why it cannot be factored
# out. Any change here has to be made in all three.
- name: ensure node and git
run: |
set -eu
SUDO=""
[ "$(id -u)" -eq 0 ] || SUDO="sudo"
missing=""
command -v node >/dev/null 2>&1 || missing="$missing nodejs"
command -v git >/dev/null 2>&1 || missing="$missing git"
if [ -z "$missing" ]; then
echo "node $(node --version), git $(git --version)"
exit 0
fi
echo "Installing:$missing"
if command -v apt-get >/dev/null 2>&1; then
$SUDO apt-get update -qq
$SUDO apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends $missing
elif command -v apk >/dev/null 2>&1; then
$SUDO apk add --no-cache $missing
elif command -v dnf >/dev/null 2>&1; then
$SUDO dnf install -y $missing
else
echo "No apt-get, apk or dnf here, so node cannot be installed from inside the" >&2
echo "job. Point the runner's container.image at something that ships node." >&2
exit 1
fi
echo "node $(node --version), git $(git --version)"
# Warned about rather than failed on. Distributions pin their nodejs package to
# the release they shipped with — Ubuntu 24.04 still serves 18, which is past end
# of life and older than the runtime these actions declare. It generally runs
# them anyway, since act_runner uses whichever node is on PATH regardless of what
# the action asked for, so this is a note for when one of them misbehaves in a
# way that makes no sense, not a reason to stop a build that is probably fine.
major="$(node --version | sed 's/^v//; s/\..*//')"
if [ "$major" -lt 20 ]; then
echo "::warning::node $major is older than the runtime these actions target;" \
"give the runner an image with node 20 or newer if actions misbehave."
fi
# fetch-depth 0, and it is load-bearing rather than tidy. MinVer derives the version from the
# nearest v* tag, and checkout's default shallow clone has no tags at all — so it would not fail,
# it would quietly answer 0.0.0-alpha.0.N and every build would ship that. Velopack decides
# whether an installed client is out of date by comparing versions, which makes a plausible wrong
# answer here a client that never updates.
#
# Repeated in all three jobs, like the node preamble above and for the same reason. Change one
# copy, change all three.
- uses: actions/checkout@3d3c42e5aac5ba805825da76410c181273ba90b1 # v7.0.1
with:
fetch-depth: 0
# A job of its own, because DodoSSH.Client.Android is deliberately not in DodoSSH.slnx.
# Adding it there would make the android workload and a full Android SDK a prerequisite of
# `dotnet build DodoSSH.slnx` for everyone — including the build job above, which needs
# neither and would grow several minutes for a head it does not compile.
#
# The cost of keeping it out is that nothing in the main job would notice this head
# breaking, which for a project sharing view models with the desktop one is a matter of
# when rather than whether. This job is that notice.
#
# ============ ◆ WHY THIS HEAD IS BUILT IN A CONTAINER AND THE OTHER TWO ARE NOT ============
#
# .NET for Android cannot build on this runner. Not "needs setting up" — cannot. The runner is
# Alpine, and the SDK's own MSBuild tasks load glibc shared libraries out of the workload pack
# into the build process, which a musl-linked dotnet will not do:
#
# error XARLP7000: Error relocating …/libZipSharpNative-3-3.so: __snprintf_chk: symbol not found
#
# There is no musl variant of that pack and no shim for a library loaded in-process — gcompat
# gets a glibc *executable* started and is no help whatsoever here. Everything this job used to
# do on the host to make Android work was therefore treatment of symptoms: an aapt2 reported
# missing while being present, an "unsupported version" of a binary that had never run. All of
# them were this one sentence in a different accent, and docs/platform-flags.md has the history
# so the next reader does not repeat the three rounds it took to hear it.
#
# So the toolchain moves into an image that is glibc, and the job keeps on the host only what the
# host is good at: checkout, git, and publishing. The daemon needs no arranging — the image job
# builds with it and every Testcontainers suite in the build job reaches it over the socket.
#
# There is no setup-dotnet here any more, and its absence is the point: nothing outside the
# container compiles anything, so a dotnet on the host would be a second toolchain with nothing
# to do and a version nobody checks.
- name: ensure the docker cli
run: |
set -eu
SUDO=""
[ "$(id -u)" -eq 0 ] || SUDO="sudo"
# Only the client. The socket is already there and a daemon is already answering on it, so
# installing an engine would start a second one beside the one in use. The image job carries
# the same step and the same reasoning; change one, look at the other.
if ! command -v docker >/dev/null 2>&1; then
echo "Installing the docker cli"
if command -v apk >/dev/null 2>&1; then
$SUDO apk add --no-cache docker-cli
elif command -v apt-get >/dev/null 2>&1; then
$SUDO apt-get update -qq
$SUDO apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends docker.io
elif command -v dnf >/dev/null 2>&1; then
$SUDO dnf install -y docker-cli
else
echo "No apt-get, apk or dnf here, so the docker client cannot be installed from" >&2
echo "inside the job. Add it to the runner's image." >&2
exit 1
fi
fi
docker --version
# Tagged by the digest of the Dockerfile that made it, so the tag moves exactly when the toolchain
# does and never otherwise. This runner is persistent, so the first build pays for a JDK, an
# Android SDK and the android workload — several minutes — and every run after it is a cache hit
# that prints two lines. A change to that Dockerfile is what buys a new one.
# ◆ BUILT ONCE PER DOCKERFILE, NOT ONCE PER RUN.
#
# The tag is the Dockerfile's own digest, so a tag that exists is by construction an image built
# from exactly this Dockerfile — and docker applies a tag only when the build succeeded, so it
# cannot be a half-built one. That makes `docker image inspect` a sound cache check rather than a
# guess, and it skips the context upload and the layer walk that a no-op `docker build` still does.
#
# The staleness this trades away is real and bounded. Everything that decides what is *in* the
# image — the command-line tools zip, the build-tools version, the workload — is pinned in the
# Dockerfile, so changing any of them changes the digest and rebuilds. What drifts is the JDK from
# apt. This is a build tool rather than something shipped, so that is the right way round; the
# image job takes the opposite trade with --pull, because what it builds is what users run.
#
# Deleting the image, or editing the Dockerfile, is how you force it.
- name: the android toolchain image
run: |
set -eu
tag="dodossh-android-build:$(sha256sum build/android-build.Dockerfile | cut -c1-16)"
if docker image inspect "$tag" >/dev/null 2>&1; then
echo "$tag is already on this runner"
else
docker build -t "$tag" -f build/android-build.Dockerfile build
fi
echo "ANDROID_BUILD_IMAGE=$tag" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
echo "$tag"
# ◆ COPIED IN AND COPIED OUT, NOT BIND-MOUNTED, AND THAT IS NOT A PREFERENCE.
#
# `-v "$PWD:/build"` fails here, and it fails quietly: this runner is itself a container with the
# host's Docker socket handed to it, so the workspace path it reports — /root/.cache/act/<hash>/…
# — is a path inside the runner, not on the daemon's host. Docker resolves a bind source on the
# daemon side, finds nothing there, helpfully creates an empty directory and mounts that. The
# container then starts perfectly and answers:
#
# MSBUILD : error MSB1009: Project file does not exist.
#
# Nothing in that says "empty mount", and nothing earlier in the job would have caught it: the
# image job's `docker build` sends its context over the API and Testcontainers mounts nothing, so
# neither of them proves a bind mount would work.
#
# `docker cp` goes over the same API and so does not care where the daemon lives. The repository
# is well under a megabyte packed, so copying the whole checkout in — .git included, because
# MinVer and the versionCode both read it — costs a moment.
#
# The NuGet cache is a named volume for the same reason. It lives on the daemon, needs no path
# either side can agree on, and turns the restore into a cache hit on every run after the first.
- name: build and package the nightly
id: nightly
run: |
set -eu
staged=artifacts/android-nightly
rm -rf "$staged"
# Created rather than run, because the copy has to happen between creating and starting: the
# script being executed arrives with it.
cid="$(docker create \
-e CI=true \
-v dodossh-nuget:/root/.nuget/packages \
"$ANDROID_BUILD_IMAGE" bash /build/scripts/ci-android.sh)"
trap 'docker rm -f "$cid" >/dev/null 2>&1 || true' EXIT
# ./. rather than . — with the trailing dot it is the directory's *contents* that land in
# /build, and without it the whole directory lands as /build/<name> and nothing is where the
# script expects it.
docker cp ./. "$cid:/build"
# --attach streams the build log and exits with the container's own status, so a failure in
# there is a failure here.
docker start --attach "$cid"
mkdir -p artifacts
docker cp "$cid:/build/$staged" artifacts/
# Read out of the manifest the container wrote rather than out of anything it printed. A
# container's stdout is the build log as well as its result, so a value parsed from it is one
# stray MSBuild line away from being wrong.
name="$(sed -n 's/.*"versionName":"\([^"]*\)".*/\1/p' "$staged/android-nightly.json")"
if [ -z "$name" ]; then
echo "The container produced no usable manifest." >&2
exit 1
fi
echo "staged=$staged" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
echo "version=$name" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
ls -la "$staged"
# ◆ PUBLISHING IT, AND WHAT THAT CAPABILITY IS.
#
# Whoever can write a release here can put a build on every nightly phone, because the client fetches
# from this feed and Android's only check is that the signature matches — and this channel's key is
# in the repository for everybody. That is the same capability as the signing key, reached through a
# different door, and it is exactly what ADR 0011 rule 1 keeps off runners.
#
# It is acceptable here for one reason: this is not that channel. A nightly is signed by a key with
# no secrecy to lose, installs under its own package id, and cannot update the application anybody
# is trusting with their credentials. The release channel has none of this — no job, no token, no
# key on a runner — and the two are separate applications so that no mistake here can reach it.
#
# main only. A tag build must not touch this: a v* tag is the release channel's, and cutting it is a
# person's job.
- name: publish the nightly
if: github.ref == 'refs/heads/main'
env:
FORGE: https://git.dodotech.cloud
REPO: DodoTech-Public/DodoSSH
TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
STAGED: ${{ steps.nightly.outputs.staged }}
VERSION: ${{ steps.nightly.outputs.version }}
run: |
set -euo pipefail
if [ -z "${TOKEN:-}" ]; then
echo "No token, so the nightly was built and not published." >&2
echo "GITHUB_TOKEN is provided by the runner; an empty one means Actions is configured" >&2
echo "without it, and the job's contents: write permission is what asks for it." >&2
exit 1
fi
api="$FORGE/api/v1/repos/$REPO"
auth="Authorization: token $TOKEN"
# ◆ THE FIRST "id" IN THE DOCUMENT, AND NOT THE LAST ONE A GREEDY MATCH LANDS ON.
#
# This was `sed -n 's/.*"id":\([0-9]*\).*/\1/p'`, and the leading .* is greedy, so it walked past
# the release's own id to the last "id": in the response — which belongs to the embedded author
# object and is -2. [0-9]* then matched no digits at all and the answer was the empty string. A
# release had been created and the step failed saying none had.
#
# It broke both readings, and the other one silently: the existing-release lookup below got the
# same empty id, so the delete never fired, so the second run would have failed to create a
# release for a tag that already had one. A rolling channel that works exactly once.
#
# grep matches left to right and [0-9]\+ needs a digit, so the author's -2 cannot match at all
# and head -1 takes the release's. jq would say this in four characters and is not on this
# runner; anything parsing JSON with a regex should say which assumption it is making, and this
# one is: the release id is the first "id": with digits after it.
release_id() {
grep -oE '"id":[0-9]+' | head -1 | cut -d: -f2
}
# Deleted and recreated rather than updated in place. A rolling tag has to move, and moving one
# through this API is two calls with no atomic form either way — so the shape with the fewest
# states is to remove both and make them again. The window where no nightly exists is a few
# seconds and the client's answer to it is the same as to an unreachable forge: try later.
existing="$(curl -fsS -H "$auth" "$api/releases/tags/nightly" 2>/dev/null || true)"
if [ -n "$existing" ]; then
id="$(printf '%s' "$existing" | release_id)"
if [ -n "$id" ]; then
echo "Removing the previous nightly release $id"
curl -fsS -X DELETE -H "$auth" "$api/releases/$id" >/dev/null || true
else
echo "A nightly release exists and its id could not be read:" >&2
printf '%s\n' "$existing" >&2
exit 1
fi
fi
curl -fsS -X DELETE -H "$auth" "$api/tags/nightly" >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
created="$(curl -fsS -X POST -H "$auth" -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d "$(printf '{"tag_name":"nightly","target_commitish":"%s","name":"Nightly %s","prerelease":true,"body":"Built from %s by CI, signed with the public nightly key. Installs beside the release build, never over it. See docs/adr/0014-android-updates.md."}' \
"$GITHUB_SHA" "$VERSION" "$GITHUB_SHA")" \
"$api/releases")"
release="$(printf '%s' "$created" | release_id)"
if [ -z "$release" ]; then
echo "Gitea accepted the release call and returned no id:" >&2
printf '%s\n' "$created" >&2
exit 1
fi
# The APK first and the manifest last, which is the ordering the client depends on: it reads the
# manifest and then fetches what the manifest names, so a manifest published before its APK is a
# few seconds in which every phone is told to download something that is not there yet.
names=""
for file in "$STAGED"/*.apk "$STAGED"/android-nightly.json; do
name="$(basename "$file")"
echo "Uploading $name ($(wc -c < "$file") bytes)"
curl -fsS -X POST -H "$auth" \
-F "attachment=@$file" \
"$api/releases/$release/assets?name=$name" >/dev/null
names="$names $name"
done
# Asked for back rather than assumed, because the failure this whole channel is exposed to is a
# release that exists and carries nothing — which is what a phone sees as a feed it can read and
# never update from, and what a person sees as a release page offering source tarballs. That is
# exactly what the run before this one left behind, and it reported success for every upload it
# never made.
published="$(curl -fsS -H "$auth" "$api/releases/$release")"
for name in $names; do
if ! printf '%s' "$published" | grep -qF "\"name\":\"$name\""; then
echo "The release was created but $name is not on it:" >&2
printf '%s\n' "$published" >&2
exit 1
fi
done
echo "Published nightly $VERSION with$names"
desktop:
name: desktop nightly
# Gated on the tests, like the image job and for a stronger version of its reason: this one is
# installed by people and replaces itself afterwards. Nothing anybody runs should come out of a
# commit whose suite was red.
needs: [build]
runs-on: [linux]
# main only, and the whole job rather than its last step. A v* tag belongs to the release channel,
# which no runner may publish — ADR 0013 rule 3 — and the desktop head is already built and packed
# on tags by the build job above, so there is nothing here a tag build would gain.
if: github.ref == 'refs/heads/main'
# Writes the rolling nightly release at the end of the job. Job-scoped, so no other job in this file
# gains it; see the publish step for what the capability is and why this channel may hold it.
permissions:
contents: write
steps:
# Duplicated from the build job; see the comment there for why it cannot be factored out. There
# are four copies now, and any change has to be made in all four.
- name: ensure node and git
run: |
set -eu
SUDO=""
[ "$(id -u)" -eq 0 ] || SUDO="sudo"
missing=""
command -v node >/dev/null 2>&1 || missing="$missing nodejs"
command -v git >/dev/null 2>&1 || missing="$missing git"
if [ -z "$missing" ]; then
echo "node $(node --version), git $(git --version)"
exit 0
fi
echo "Installing:$missing"
if command -v apt-get >/dev/null 2>&1; then
$SUDO apt-get update -qq
$SUDO apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends $missing
elif command -v apk >/dev/null 2>&1; then
$SUDO apk add --no-cache $missing
elif command -v dnf >/dev/null 2>&1; then
$SUDO dnf install -y $missing
else
echo "No apt-get, apk or dnf here, so node cannot be installed from inside the" >&2
echo "job. Point the runner's container.image at something that ships node." >&2
exit 1
fi
echo "node $(node --version), git $(git --version)"
major="$(node --version | sed 's/^v//; s/\..*//')"
if [ "$major" -lt 20 ]; then
echo "::warning::node $major is older than the runtime these actions target;" \
"give the runner an image with node 20 or newer if actions misbehave."
fi
# fetch-depth 0 for the reason the other three jobs give, and here it decides what gets published:
# MinVer's answer is this build's version and the number a nightly client compares against.
- uses: actions/checkout@3d3c42e5aac5ba805825da76410c181273ba90b1 # v7.0.1
with:
fetch-depth: 0
- uses: actions/setup-dotnet@a98b56852c35b8e3190ac28c8c2271da59106c68 # v6.0.0
with:
global-json-file: global.json
cache: true
cache-dependency-path: '**/packages.lock.json'
# Before the version is read, and that ordering is not tidiness. MinVer arrives as a package, so its
# target does not exist until a restore has written obj/*.nuget.g.targets — and `-t:MinVer` on an
# unrestored project fails MSB4057 "the target does not exist", which reads like a typo in this file
# rather than like a missing restore. The build job's tag check is safe because it runs after that
# job's own restore; this job has none, so it needs this one.
#
# Locked, like the solution restore in the build job. The RID-specific restore the publish needs is
# unlocked and asks for that itself, exactly as the build job's publish does.
- name: restore
run: dotnet restore src/DodoSSH.Client.App/DodoSSH.Client.App.csproj --locked-mode
# ◆ THE VERSION IS DECIDED ONCE HERE AND THEN FORCED ON EVERYTHING.
#
# MinVer's own answer is not usable as it stands: until a v* tag exists it is 0.0.0-alpha.0.N, and
# vpk refuses to pack anything below 0.0.1. The floor is applied to the *whole build* rather than to
# the packaging alone, through MinVerVersionOverride, and that is the part worth understanding.
#
# Packing a version the assemblies disagree with would put one number in the installer and another
# on the preferences screen — the screen a person reads when asked which nightly they are on, and
# the number they would then quote into an issue that nobody can match to a build. MinVer sets both
# Version and InformationalVersion from the override, so the two cannot drift.
#
# Monotonic across the boundary, which is what a feed needs: heights keep rising within a floored
# version, and the first real tag moves the whole number up past every floored one.
- name: the nightly version
id: version
run: |
set -euo pipefail
# -t:MinVer for the reason the tag check in the build job spells out: without a target named,
# -getProperty answers the SDK default and every nightly would claim the same version forever.
version="$(dotnet msbuild src/DodoSSH.Client.App/DodoSSH.Client.App.csproj \
-getProperty:Version -t:MinVer -nologo | tr -d '[:space:]')"
if [ -z "$version" ]; then
echo "Could not read the version from MSBuild." >&2
exit 1
fi
case "$version" in
0.0.0*)
floored="0.0.1${version#0.0.0}"
echo "MinVer says $version, which vpk will not pack; this nightly is $floored."
version="$floored"
;;
esac
echo "version=$version" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
echo "$version"
# DodoChannel=nightly is what makes this a different application rather than the same one built
# again: it puts the channel in the assembly, which is where DesktopChannel reads it to pick the
# feed to poll, whether to accept prereleases, and which profile directory to keep a cache in.
#
# RestoreLockedMode=false for the RID, exactly as the build job's publish does — see the long note
# there. This checkout is thrown away, so the lock files it rewrites go nowhere.
- name: publish the nightly
env:
VERSION: ${{ steps.version.outputs.version }}
run: >
dotnet publish src/DodoSSH.Client.App/DodoSSH.Client.App.csproj
--configuration Release --runtime win-x64 --self-contained true
-p:RestoreLockedMode=false
-p:DodoChannel=nightly
-p:MinVerVersionOverride="$VERSION"
--output "$RUNNER_TEMP/nightly-win-x64"
# ◆ A DIFFERENT PACK ID, A DIFFERENT CHANNEL, A DIFFERENT TITLE. ALL THREE, AND NONE IS COSMETIC.
#
# packId decides where Velopack installs and what an installed client matches an update against, so
# DodoSSH.Desktop.Nightly is what makes this install *beside* the release build rather than over it,
# and what stops either feed's package being applied to the other's install.
#
# channel decides the name of the index file on the feed — releases.win-nightly.json — and it is a
# contract with VelopackUpdateChannel.NightlyChannel. Disagree on this word and the channel answers
# nothing, forever, with no error anywhere.
#
# title is what a person reads in the Start menu and in Add/Remove Programs, and it is the only one
# of the three they will ever see. Two entries both called DodoSSH would be the whole benefit of
# installing side by side, thrown away at the last step.
#
# No `vpk download` and so no deltas: this channel deletes its previous release on every push, so
# there would be nothing on the feed for a delta to be applied against. A nightly update is a full
# download, which is the honest cost of a rolling channel that keeps exactly one build.
- name: package the nightly
env:
VERSION: ${{ steps.version.outputs.version }}
run: |
set -euo pipefail
dotnet tool restore
dotnet vpk '[win]' pack \
--skip-updates \
--packId DodoSSH.Desktop.Nightly \
--packVersion "$VERSION" \
--packDir "$RUNNER_TEMP/nightly-win-x64" \
--packTitle 'DodoSSH Nightly' \
--packAuthors DodoTech \
--mainExe DodoSSH.exe \
--icon src/DodoSSH.Client.App/Assets/dodossh.ico \
--runtime win-x64 \
--channel win-nightly \
--outputDir "$RUNNER_TEMP/nightly-releases"
ls -la "$RUNNER_TEMP/nightly-releases"
# ◆ PUBLISHING IT, AND WHAT THAT CAPABILITY IS.
#
# Whoever can write a release here can put a build on every nightly desktop, because Velopack fetches
# from this feed and applies what it finds without verifying a signature. That is the same capability
# as a signing key reached through a different door, and ADR 0013 rule 3 keeps it off runners.
#
# It is acceptable here for the reason the android nightly gives, and only for that reason: this is
# not that channel. A nightly is a separate application with its own pack id, its own install
# directory and its own profile, and it cannot update the build anybody is trusting with their
# credentials — the release channel reads a different index and refuses prereleases, so it cannot
# even see this one. Anybody installing a nightly is trusting everyone who can write to this
# repository, which is a thing to know rather than a thing to discover; the README says so.
#
# ◆ DELETED AND RECREATED RATHER THAN ADDED TO.
#
# A rolling channel has to keep exactly one build, and every asset here is version-named, so merging
# would grow the release by a hundred and twenty megabytes per push until the forge said no. There is
# no atomic form of this in the API, so the shape with the fewest states is to remove both the
# release and its tag and make them again. The window where no nightly exists is a few seconds, and
# the client's answer to it is the same as to an unreachable forge: the timer swallows it and tries
# later; a pressed CHECK NOW says so.
- name: publish the nightly release
env:
FORGE: https://git.dodotech.cloud
REPO: DodoTech-Public/DodoSSH
TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
VERSION: ${{ steps.version.outputs.version }}
TAG: nightly-desktop
run: |
set -euo pipefail
if [ -z "${TOKEN:-}" ]; then
echo "No token, so the nightly was built and not published." >&2
echo "GITHUB_TOKEN is provided by the runner; an empty one means Actions is configured" >&2
echo "without it, and the job's contents: write permission is what asks for it." >&2
exit 1
fi
api="$FORGE/api/v1/repos/$REPO"
auth="Authorization: token $TOKEN"
# The first "id" with digits after it, for the reason the android job records at length: a
# greedy .* walks past the release's own id to the author's, which is -2, and yields nothing.
release_id() {
grep -oE '"id":[0-9]+' | head -1 | cut -d: -f2
}
existing="$(curl -fsS -H "$auth" "$api/releases/tags/$TAG" 2>/dev/null || true)"
if [ -n "$existing" ]; then
id="$(printf '%s' "$existing" | release_id)"
if [ -n "$id" ]; then
echo "Removing the previous $TAG release $id"
curl -fsS -X DELETE -H "$auth" "$api/releases/$id" >/dev/null || true
else
echo "A $TAG release exists and its id could not be read:" >&2
printf '%s\n' "$existing" >&2
exit 1
fi
fi
curl -fsS -X DELETE -H "$auth" "$api/tags/$TAG" >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
# vpk rather than curl, unlike the android job above, and the difference is what is being
# uploaded. An APK is one file the client is told about by a manifest this repository writes; a
# Velopack release is a set of files plus an index whose format is Velopack's own. Writing that
# index by hand would be reimplementing the tool that is already here.
#
# --pre is load-bearing twice over. It keeps this out of the release channel, which refuses
# prereleases — and it keeps it out of `releases/latest`, which is what the *phone's* release
# channel reads: a desktop nightly published as a stable release would become the newest release
# in this repository and every phone on the release channel would start failing its update check
# against a release carrying no android manifest.
dotnet vpk upload gitea \
--skip-updates \
--repoUrl "$FORGE/$REPO" \
--token "$TOKEN" \
--outputDir "$RUNNER_TEMP/nightly-releases" \
--channel win-nightly \
--tag "$TAG" \
--releaseName "Nightly desktop $VERSION" \
--targetCommitish "$GITHUB_SHA" \
--pre \
--publish
# Asked for back rather than assumed, and the android job's history is why: it once created a
# release, uploaded nothing, and reported success for every upload it never made. A nightly
# desktop feed that exists and carries no index is a client that checks, finds nothing, and
# reports itself up to date forever.
published="$(curl -fsS -H "$auth" "$api/releases/tags/$TAG")"
for name in releases.win-nightly.json DodoSSH.Desktop.Nightly-win-nightly-Setup.exe; do
if ! printf '%s' "$published" | grep -qF "\"name\":\"$name\""; then
echo "The release was created but $name is not on it:" >&2
printf '%s\n' "$published" >&2
exit 1
fi
done
echo "Published nightly desktop $VERSION as $TAG"
image:
name: api image
# Gated on the tests rather than parallel with them, which costs a few minutes of wall
# clock on every main commit and buys the thing worth having: no image reaches the
# registry from a commit whose tests were red. An image is not a build artefact anyone
# inspects — it is the thing that gets deployed.
needs: [build]
runs-on: [linux]
steps:
# Duplicated from the build job; see the comment there for why it cannot be factored
# out. Any change here has to be made in all three.
- name: ensure node and git
run: |
set -eu
SUDO=""
[ "$(id -u)" -eq 0 ] || SUDO="sudo"
missing=""
command -v node >/dev/null 2>&1 || missing="$missing nodejs"
command -v git >/dev/null 2>&1 || missing="$missing git"
if [ -z "$missing" ]; then
echo "node $(node --version), git $(git --version)"
exit 0
fi
echo "Installing:$missing"
if command -v apt-get >/dev/null 2>&1; then
$SUDO apt-get update -qq
$SUDO apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends $missing
elif command -v apk >/dev/null 2>&1; then
$SUDO apk add --no-cache $missing
elif command -v dnf >/dev/null 2>&1; then
$SUDO dnf install -y $missing
else
echo "No apt-get, apk or dnf here, so node cannot be installed from inside the" >&2
echo "job. Point the runner's container.image at something that ships node." >&2
exit 1
fi
echo "node $(node --version), git $(git --version)"
# Warned about rather than failed on. Distributions pin their nodejs package to
# the release they shipped with — Ubuntu 24.04 still serves 18, which is past end
# of life and older than the runtime these actions declare. It generally runs
# them anyway, since act_runner uses whichever node is on PATH regardless of what
# the action asked for, so this is a note for when one of them misbehaves in a
# way that makes no sense, not a reason to stop a build that is probably fine.
major="$(node --version | sed 's/^v//; s/\..*//')"
if [ "$major" -lt 20 ]; then
echo "::warning::node $major is older than the runtime these actions target;" \
"give the runner an image with node 20 or newer if actions misbehave."
fi
# fetch-depth 0, and it is load-bearing rather than tidy. MinVer derives the version from the
# nearest v* tag, and checkout's default shallow clone has no tags at all — so it would not fail,
# it would quietly answer 0.0.0-alpha.0.N and every build would ship that. Velopack decides
# whether an installed client is out of date by comparing versions, which makes a plausible wrong
# answer here a client that never updates.
#
# Repeated in all three jobs, like the node preamble above and for the same reason. Change one
# copy, change all three.
- uses: actions/checkout@3d3c42e5aac5ba805825da76410c181273ba90b1 # v7.0.1
with:
fetch-depth: 0
# The daemon and the client are two different things to have, and this runner had only
# one of them. Testcontainers reaches Docker straight over /var/run/docker.sock from a
# .NET library, so every integration suite in the build job passed while `docker` was
# not a command here at all — which surfaced as exit 127 from the build step below,
# after the tags had been worked out and everything looked healthy.
#
# Only the CLI. The socket is already there and a daemon is already answering on it;
# installing an engine would start a second one beside the one being used.
- name: ensure the docker cli
run: |
set -eu
SUDO=""
[ "$(id -u)" -eq 0 ] || SUDO="sudo"
if ! command -v docker >/dev/null 2>&1; then
echo "Installing the docker cli"
if command -v apk >/dev/null 2>&1; then
$SUDO apk add --no-cache docker-cli
elif command -v apt-get >/dev/null 2>&1; then
$SUDO apt-get update -qq
$SUDO apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends docker.io
elif command -v dnf >/dev/null 2>&1; then
$SUDO dnf install -y docker-cli
else
echo "No apt-get, apk or dnf here, so the docker client cannot be installed from" >&2
echo "inside the job. Add it to the runner's image." >&2
exit 1
fi
fi
docker --version
# buildx after the client, and wanted rather than required. Without the plugin
# `docker build` falls back to the legacy builder, which still produces the image
# and says on every run that it will not do so forever; with it the same command
# routes through BuildKit and the Dockerfile's independent stages stop being
# serialised. Alpine's docker-cli package does not carry it, which is why a job
# that had just been given a working client still built the deprecated way.
#
# A distribution with no package for it should get a warning and an image, not a
# failed release — so every branch here ends in `|| true` and the check below
# reports rather than exits.
if ! docker buildx version >/dev/null 2>&1; then
echo "Installing buildx"
if command -v apk >/dev/null 2>&1; then
$SUDO apk add --no-cache docker-cli-buildx || true
elif command -v apt-get >/dev/null 2>&1; then
$SUDO apt-get update -qq || true
$SUDO apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends docker-buildx || true
elif command -v dnf >/dev/null 2>&1; then
$SUDO dnf install -y docker-buildx || true
fi
fi
if docker buildx version >/dev/null 2>&1; then
docker buildx version
else
echo "::warning::buildx is unavailable, so this image was built by the legacy" \
"builder Docker has deprecated. Add a buildx package to the runner image."
fi
# No docker/* actions here, deliberately. The build is single-architecture, so it
# wants the daemon this runner already has, a client, and BuildKit — all of which the
# step above arranges with two packages. What it does not want is QEMU, a builder
# instance to create and tear down, or a third-party action whose SHA has to be
# audited and re-pinned on a schedule. Adding linux/arm64 later is where that trade
# changes, and where setup-buildx-action starts earning its place.
- name: work out the tags
id: tags
env:
REGISTRY: registry-docker.dodotech.cloud
IMAGE: dodotech/dodossh-api
run: |
set -euo pipefail
repo="$REGISTRY/$IMAGE"
short="$(git rev-parse --short HEAD)"
# sha- prefixed, because a bare hex tag is ambiguous with a digest to both a human
# and a fair amount of tooling. This one is on every build and never moves, which
# makes it the only tag safe to pin a deployment to.
tags="$repo:sha-$short"
version="$short"
case "$GITHUB_REF" in
refs/tags/v*)
v="${GITHUB_REF#refs/tags/v}"
version="$v"
tags="$tags $repo:$v"
# The moving major.minor tag and :latest, but only for a release proper.
# v1.3.0-rc1 sorts after v1.2.9 and would otherwise take :latest with it,
# which is how a release candidate ends up on somebody's server.
case "$v" in
*-*) ;;
*)
tags="$tags $repo:${v%.*}"
tags="$tags $repo:latest"
;;
esac
;;
refs/heads/main)
tags="$tags $repo:main"
version="main-$short"
;;
esac
# The version MSBuild is allowed to see, which is not the same string as the one above.
# `version` is a docker tag and is `main-<short sha>` on a main build; handing that to
# -p:Version fails the publish with NETSDK1018. So this is set only when it is a real
# version, and the Dockerfile leaves the SDK default alone when it is empty.
assembly_version=""
case "$GITHUB_REF" in
refs/tags/v*) assembly_version="${GITHUB_REF#refs/tags/v}" ;;
esac
echo "tags=$tags" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
echo "version=$version" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
echo "assemblyVersion=$assembly_version" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
echo "created=$(date -u +%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ)" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
echo "Tagging: $tags"
# Every value from a step output or the event goes through env rather than being
# interpolated into the script text. A git tag may contain a semicolon, and
# `${{ }}` is a textual substitution performed before the shell ever sees the line —
# so an interpolated tag name is a command the workflow agreed to run.
- name: build the image
env:
TAGS: ${{ steps.tags.outputs.tags }}
VERSION: ${{ steps.tags.outputs.version }}
ASSEMBLY_VERSION: ${{ steps.tags.outputs.assemblyVersion }}
REVISION: ${{ github.sha }}
CREATED: ${{ steps.tags.outputs.created }}
run: |
set -euo pipefail
args=()
for tag in $TAGS; do
args+=(--tag "$tag")
done
# --pull rather than whatever the runner happens to have cached: the base images
# are floating tags, and a runner that has held aspnet:10.0-noble-chiseled for a
# month is a month of unapplied CVE fixes shipping in every image built on it.
docker build \
--pull \
--file src/DodoSSH.Api/Dockerfile \
--build-arg "VERSION=$VERSION" \
--build-arg "ASSEMBLY_VERSION=$ASSEMBLY_VERSION" \
--build-arg "REVISION=$REVISION" \
--build-arg "CREATED=$CREATED" \
"${args[@]}" \
.
# Everything above runs on a pull request too. Building a fork's Dockerfile is safe —
# nothing is pushed and no credential is in scope — and it means a change that breaks
# the image fails on the PR rather than on main. Only these last two steps are held
# back, and the condition is on the event rather than on the branch so that a PR
# targeting main cannot reach them.
- name: log in to the registry
if: github.event_name != 'pull_request'
env:
REGISTRY_USERNAME: ${{ secrets.REGISTRY_USERNAME }}
REGISTRY_PASSWORD: ${{ secrets.REGISTRY_PASSWORD }}
run: |
set -eu
# Checked before use, because an unset secret is not an error anywhere upstream of
# here: an expression that resolves to nothing renders as the empty string, so
# docker is handed --username "" and answers with something about credentials,
# which sends people to the registry to debug a value that never left the
# settings page.
#
# Note for anyone editing this comment: an expression delimiter written literally
# here is interpolated even though this is a shell comment. The runner substitutes
# the whole script before any shell sees it, so an empty one fails the step with a
# parse error and no line number — which is how this very block broke the release
# it was added to protect.
#
# Reported by length, and never by value. Gitea masks known secret values in logs,
# but a mask is only as good as the runner's bookkeeping and a length answers the
# only question being asked: did anything arrive.
missing=""
[ -n "${REGISTRY_USERNAME:-}" ] || missing="$missing REGISTRY_USERNAME"
[ -n "${REGISTRY_PASSWORD:-}" ] || missing="$missing REGISTRY_PASSWORD"
if [ -n "$missing" ]; then
echo "Empty or unset:$missing" >&2
echo >&2
echo "Both come from repository secrets, which in Gitea are at" >&2
echo " Settings -> Actions -> Secrets" >&2
echo "and are a different page from Settings -> Actions -> Variables. A value" >&2
echo "added as a variable is invisible to the secrets context and arrives here" >&2
echo "as an empty string, which is exactly what this message means." >&2
exit 1
fi
echo "username: ${#REGISTRY_USERNAME} characters; password: set"
printf '%s' "$REGISTRY_PASSWORD" \
| docker login registry-docker.dodotech.cloud \
--username "$REGISTRY_USERNAME" --password-stdin
- name: push
if: github.event_name != 'pull_request'
env:
TAGS: ${{ steps.tags.outputs.tags }}
run: |
set -euo pipefail
for tag in $TAGS; do
docker push "$tag"
done
# The daemon is shared with every other job on this runner, and a credential left in
# ~/.docker/config.json outlives the job that created it. always(), so a failed push
# does not leave it behind.
- name: log out
if: always() && github.event_name != 'pull_request'
run: docker logout registry-docker.dodotech.cloud
# No job here publishes the desktop *release* channel, and there is not going to be one. The desktop
# nightly job above publishes a different application — its own pack id, its own Velopack channel, its own
# install directory and profile — and the distance between those two sentences is the whole design. What
# the build job does for the release channel is prove it still builds and packs; the upload is withheld.
#
# ◆ ONE REASON, WHERE THIS ONCE CLAIMED TWO, AND THE SECOND WAS NOT TRUE.
#
# It used to say that vpk stamps and embeds the Setup.exe and Update.exe stubs with Windows tooling and
# so could not run on a Linux runner, and offered that as the smaller of two reasons. It was wrong, and
# worth recording as wrong because it is the kind of claim that discourages anybody from trying: vpk
# cross-compiles when told to, `vpk [win] pack` on this runner builds the setup stub, the portable zip
# and the .nupkg, and only signing needs Windows — which this repository does not do yet. That is what
# the packaging step now does on every main and tag build.
#
# The reason that stands is the one that was never mechanical. Velopack clients fetch from the release
# feed and do not verify a package signature when they apply it, so whoever can write a release on this
# repository can publish an update that every installed client downloads and runs. That is the same
# capability as the signing key, reached through a different door — and docs/adr/0011 rule 1 puts that
# capability on a machine which is not a runner, because a workflow secret is held by everyone who can
# change a workflow file. A Windows runner would never have answered it, which is why fixing the
# mechanical half changes nothing about the division of labour.
# See docs/adr/0013-desktop-distribution-and-updates.md.
#
# What cuts a release is scripts/release-windows.ps1, run by a person. What this file does is prove the
# thing still builds and packages, which is the same division of labour the android job above already
# has: it packages an APK nobody installs, so that a link-time break fails here rather than later.