bin/repo advance --from/--to moves packages forward through the pipeline
(edge → rc → stable), driven by the source channel's database rather than the
raw directory, copying packages AND their detached signatures (fixing the old
migrate bug that left promoted packages unverifiable), refusing to rewrite any
published filename, and requiring a .sig for everything it moves. stable → rc
is allowed only as --fast-ring parity replication or the one-time
--bootstrap seed (bin/repo bootstrap-rc). 'migrate' stays as a deprecated
alias for the transition.
helpers/lock-helpers.sh adds a host-wide flock shared by bin/release,
advance-channel, and upload-prebuilt (reentrant via OMARCHY_RELEASE_LOCK_HELD)
so timers and operators serialize instead of interleaving partial publishes.
bin/release gains a stable-only step 7: replicate fast-ring artifacts to rc so
rc and stable stay in parity between release trains (skipped until rc is
bootstrapped).
The worst was fatal: push passed --skip-prod-check to upload-prebuilt, which
forwards every argument to sign, promote and update as well, and sign rejects
unknown options. Every non-dry-run push and deploy would have uploaded and
verified its artifacts and then failed before signing. upload-prebuilt now
routes publishing flags to sync alone.
The partial-tree guard was weaker than it looked:
- it counted archive files locally against package names in the remote
database, and this tree keeps two versions per package, so a checkout with
a spare version of half the repository could pass while still hiding
hundreds of packages. It now compares package-name sets and lists what
would be hidden.
- it treated any unreadable remote as an empty one, so an auth failure or a
corrupt database disabled it. Only rclone's "directory not found" now
counts as a fresh mirror; every other failure aborts.
Also:
- sync had no set -e, so a failed package upload fell through to publishing
the database, advertising packages that were never uploaded. Each transfer
is now checked before the next step.
- --package with no names silently meant "every package", which under --yes
could publish everything from one unset variable in a script.
- push now refuses to run when the host has packages staged from an earlier
failure, since publishing would sign and promote those too.
- epoch versions contain a colon, which rsync reads as host:path, so no
package with an epoch could be transferred. Sources are ./-prefixed.
- remote paths are quoted for the remote shell.
- sync spun forever on a missing option value.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Ryan Hughes