Give an installed machine a way to catch up

./install only ever adds. It copies over /, links dotfiles, installs
packages -- and has no way to say "remove that file", "disable that
unit", "that symlink points nowhere now". So a machine set up months
ago keeps whatever this repository has since decided was wrong, and
the only thing that ever fixes it is somebody reading a commit
message. With a curl installer in the README, that stopped being
hypothetical.

A migration is one script that performs one repair, exactly once, on
the machines that need it. Named by the commit timestamp that authored
it, so glob order is chronological without a sequence number two
branches could both pick. Marked in ~/.local/state on success and only
on success, so a repair that failed stays pending rather than being
recorded as done and hidden forever. Ordered, and stopped at the first
failure, because a later repair may assume an earlier one landed. A
fresh install marks everything without running it, the way
Migrations.qml stamps a pre-versioning settings file at its baseline.

The first real one removes the dangling ~/.config/forge symlink left
behind when the GNOME session was cut: link-dotfiles could link it but
never unlink it. Verified both ways -- a no-op on a machine that never
had it, an actual repair on one that did.

Root work goes through panama-sudo --reason so the password prompt
names the repair, and the contract fails any migration reaching for
bare sudo.
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Gabriel Brown
2026-08-21 21:01:31 -04:00
parent 3c45d63085
commit e446a1072c
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@@ -73,6 +73,9 @@ ${BOLD}Commands:${RESET}
a subset: 'panama test dock' runs the ones matching 'dock'.
${GREEN}upgrade${RESET} Re-run ./install from anywhere. Safe: every stage is
idempotent and this is the documented upgrade path.
${GREEN}migrate${RESET} Apply repairs this machine has not had yet. The half of an
upgrade that ./install cannot do, because installing only ever
adds. Safe to re-run; nothing is applied twice.
${GREEN}apps${RESET} Choose applications to install: pick a category, then tick
what you want. The same catalog ./install offers, minus the
install.
@@ -321,6 +324,24 @@ cmd_upgrade() {
exec "$installer" "$@"
}
# ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Command: migrate
# ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
#
# What ./install cannot do. The installer only ever adds -- it copies over /,
# links dotfiles, installs packages -- so a machine set up months ago keeps
# whatever this repository has since decided was wrong. Migrations are the one
# mechanism that can remove a file, disable a unit, or repair a symlink on a
# machine that already exists. See bin/panama-migrate.
cmd_migrate() {
local runner="$PANAMA_DIR/bin/panama-migrate"
if [[ ! -x "$runner" ]]; then
err "The migration runner is missing from $runner"
exit 1
fi
exec "$runner" "$@"
}
# ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Command: app
# ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -522,6 +543,7 @@ main() {
doctor) shift; cmd_doctor "$@" ;;
test) shift; cmd_test "$@" ;;
upgrade) shift; cmd_upgrade "$@" ;;
migrate) shift; cmd_migrate "$@" ;;
app) shift; cmd_app "$@" ;;
apps) shift; cmd_apps "$@" ;;
help|-h|--help|"") usage ;;