Panama learns what a server is: from a root login to running containers

A machine's role is now the interview's first question and the one answer
Panama records. Servers get the same shell minus the screen: core packages,
nvm, Bun, Claude Code and Codex (desktops get Codex too), linger, rootless
ports from 80, firewalld, the nginx-bridge network, and a nightly image
updater that replaced watchtower for cause.

server/containers/ carries junior's 23 compose services -- secrets moved to
per-machine .env files that never enter this public repo, every transformed
compose proven to render byte-identical to what is live. 'panama server'
enables, disables and relinks them; nothing here restarts a running service.
'boot --server' walks a fresh VPS from its root login to a normal install.

Five new contracts pin the secrets rule, the catalog's shape, panama-server's
behavior, the role plumbing, and the dotfile classification.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NU5JGiN3JfzqrLQB6wmJ1E
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Gabriel Brown
2026-08-25 23:11:49 -04:00
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commit f33da41cc6
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@@ -73,6 +73,148 @@ PANAMA_PATH="${PANAMA_PATH:-$HOME/.local/share/Panama}"
# shellcheck source=../lib/extras-catalog
source "$PANAMA_PATH/setup/lib/extras-catalog"
# Which machine this is. A server takes the short path below: core tools,
# node, the agents -- no third-party repos, no desktop, no flatpaks.
# shellcheck source=../lib/machine-role
source "$PANAMA_PATH/setup/lib/machine-role"
ROLE="$(panama_role)"
# One list, installed the way every list is installed: --skip-unavailable so a
# single rotted name cannot cost the transaction, then report_missing so a
# skipped name is a warning somebody reads.
install_list() {
local file="$PANAMA_PATH/setup/packages/$1" label="$2" packages
if [[ -f "$file" ]]; then
packages=$(packages_in "$file")
log "Installing $label Packages"
echo -e "Includes the following packages:"
echo -e "$(<"$file")"
sudo dnf install -y --skip-unavailable $packages > /dev/null
report_missing "$file"
log "$label packages installed!"
else
log "Package list was not in specified path: $file"
fi
}
# --- Node and pnpm, through nvm ----------------------------------------------
#
# nvm is a shell function rather than a binary, so it has to be sourced before
# it can be used at all -- and its script reads variables that `set -u` above
# treats as fatal, so the strictness is lifted for exactly that source and put
# straight back.
#
# Deliberately not dnf's nodejs: config/bash/shell switches Node per project
# from .nvmrc, and a system Node earlier on PATH would win every switch, leaving
# `nvm use` looking like it did nothing.
#
# pnpm goes inside the nvm-managed Node rather than beside it as its own dnf
# package, so it travels with the version it belongs to instead of outliving it.
setup_node() {
if [[ -s /etc/profile.d/nvm.sh ]]; then
log "Installing the latest Node LTS through nvm"
set +u
# shellcheck source=/dev/null
source /etc/profile.d/nvm.sh
if nvm install --lts >/dev/null 2>&1; then
nvm alias default 'lts/*' >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
npm install -g pnpm >/dev/null 2>&1 || { log "pnpm did not install"; softly_failed+=("pnpm"); }
log "Node $(node --version 2>/dev/null) with pnpm $(pnpm --version 2>/dev/null)"
else
log "nvm could not install Node; skipping"; softly_failed+=("Node (nvm)")
fi
set -u
else
log "nvm is not installed, so Node was not set up"
fi
}
# --- Applications no repository packages -------------------------------------
#
# Everything else Panama installs comes from dnf or Flathub. These do not
# exist in either, so each is an explicit exception with a reason, and each is
# skipped when already present so a re-run costs nothing.
#
# None of them pins a version. sunhat pinned URLs -- upscayl 2.11.5, LACT 0.5.4,
# a fedora-40 RPM -- and every one of them was a 404 within a release cycle. An
# installer that resolves "latest" keeps working; one that names a version rots.
#
# A failure here is logged and stepped over rather than aborting: an
# unreachable third-party host should not cost the rest of the run.
# Bun: the JavaScript runtime and package manager. No RPM, no flatpak.
install_bun() {
if [[ -x "$HOME/.bun/bin/bun" ]]; then
log "Bun already installed at \"$HOME/.bun/bin/bun\""
else
log "Installing Bun via curl..."
curl -fsSL https://bun.sh/install | bash > /dev/null 2>&1 || { log "Bun install failed; skipping"; softly_failed+=("Bun"); }
fi
}
# Claude Code: Anthropic's CLI. The official installer keeps itself updated
# afterwards, so this runs once and then never needs to again.
install_claude_code() {
if command -v claude >/dev/null 2>&1; then
log "Claude Code already installed at \"$(command -v claude)\""
else
log "Installing Claude Code via the official installer..."
curl -fsSL https://claude.ai/install.sh | bash > /dev/null 2>&1 || { log "Claude Code install failed; skipping"; softly_failed+=("Claude Code"); }
fi
}
# Codex: OpenAI's CLI. Distributed through npm, which is why this runs after
# setup_node -- the nvm-managed Node is the one it should land in.
install_codex() {
if command -v codex >/dev/null 2>&1; then
log "Codex already installed at \"$(command -v codex)\""
elif command -v npm >/dev/null 2>&1; then
log "Installing Codex via npm..."
npm install -g @openai/codex >/dev/null 2>&1 || { log "Codex install failed; skipping"; softly_failed+=("Codex"); }
else
log "npm is not available, so Codex was not installed"; softly_failed+=("Codex")
fi
}
# --- What was stepped over ---------------------------------------------------
#
# Tolerating a failure is only better than aborting on it if somebody is told.
# The whole point of surviving a soft failure is that the rest gets installed
# anyway -- but a machine missing something should say so once, here, rather
# than be discovered a week later.
report_soft_failures() {
if (( ${#softly_failed[@]} > 0 )); then
log "Installed, but these were stepped over:"
printf ' - %s\n' "${softly_failed[@]}"
log "None of them stops the machine, but this run is not recorded as"
log "complete, so the next 'panama update' tries them again."
# A step that did not complete has not happened. Exiting non-zero is what
# keeps ./install from stamping the packages hash over the gaps -- stamped,
# they would never be retried (the hash-skip would say nothing changed).
exit 1
fi
}
# --- The server path ---------------------------------------------------------
#
# Everything a server runs is above this line plus the lists it installs. No
# RPM Fusion, no Terra, no COPR, no multimedia, no flatpaks: those exist for a
# desktop, and every one of them is a network dependency and a failure mode a
# headless machine has no reason to carry.
if [[ "$ROLE" == server ]]; then
echo -e "\n--- Installing packages (server) ---"
log "Updating all packages. This may take a while"
sudo dnf update -y --refresh > /dev/null
install_list core-packages "Core"
install_list server-packages "Server"
setup_node
install_bun
install_claude_code
install_codex
report_soft_failures
exit 0
fi
echo -e "\n--- Installing Repositories ---"
log "Installing RPM Fusion Free and Nonfree Repositories"
sudo dnf install -y https://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm https://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm > /dev/null
@@ -105,37 +247,14 @@ echo -e "\n--- Installing relevant packages ---"
log "Updating all packages. This may take a while"
sudo dnf update -y --refresh > /dev/null
# --- Install all initial packages ---
PACKAGES_FILE="$PANAMA_PATH/setup/packages/initial-packages"
if [[ -f "$PACKAGES_FILE" ]]; then
INITIAL_PACKAGES=$(packages_in "$PACKAGES_FILE")
log "Installing Initial Packages"
echo -e "Includes the following packages:"
echo -e "$(<"$PACKAGES_FILE")"
# --skip-unavailable: dnf5 refuses a whole transaction over one missing
# name, so a single rotted entry in this list used to cost every package
# in it -- and the desktop below never installed. The skipped names are
# reported afterwards rather than silently dropped.
sudo dnf install -y --skip-unavailable $INITIAL_PACKAGES > /dev/null
report_missing "$PACKAGES_FILE"
log "Initial packages installed!"
else
log "Package list was not in specified path: $PACKAGES_FILE"
fi
# --- Install Desktop Packages ---
DESKTOP_FILE="$PANAMA_PATH/setup/packages/desktop-packages"
if [[ -f "$DESKTOP_FILE" ]]; then
DESKTOP_PACKAGES=$(packages_in "$DESKTOP_FILE")
log "Installing Desktop Packages"
echo -e "Includes the following packages:"
echo -e "$(<"$DESKTOP_FILE")"
sudo dnf install -y --skip-unavailable $DESKTOP_PACKAGES > /dev/null
report_missing "$DESKTOP_FILE"
log "Desktop packages installed!"
else
log "Package list was not in specified path: $DESKTOP_FILE"
fi
# --- Install the shared core, then the desktop-only lists ---
# --skip-unavailable throughout (inside install_list): dnf5 refuses a whole
# transaction over one missing name, so a single rotted entry used to cost
# every package in a list -- and the desktop below never installed. The
# skipped names are reported afterwards rather than silently dropped.
install_list core-packages "Core"
install_list initial-packages "Initial"
install_list desktop-packages "Desktop"
# --- Install the Hyprland desktop ---
#
@@ -212,70 +331,10 @@ else
log "Package list was not in specified path: $DEV_FILE"
fi
# --- Node and pnpm, through nvm ----------------------------------------------
#
# nvm is a shell function rather than a binary, so it has to be sourced before
# it can be used at all -- and its script reads variables that `set -u` above
# treats as fatal, so the strictness is lifted for exactly that source and put
# straight back.
#
# Deliberately not dnf's nodejs: config/bash/shell switches Node per project
# from .nvmrc, and a system Node earlier on PATH would win every switch, leaving
# `nvm use` looking like it did nothing.
#
# pnpm goes inside the nvm-managed Node rather than beside it as its own dnf
# package, so it travels with the version it belongs to instead of outliving it.
if [[ -s /etc/profile.d/nvm.sh ]]; then
log "Installing the latest Node LTS through nvm"
set +u
# shellcheck source=/dev/null
source /etc/profile.d/nvm.sh
if nvm install --lts >/dev/null 2>&1; then
nvm alias default 'lts/*' >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
npm install -g pnpm >/dev/null 2>&1 || { log "pnpm did not install"; softly_failed+=("pnpm"); }
log "Node $(node --version 2>/dev/null) with pnpm $(pnpm --version 2>/dev/null)"
else
log "nvm could not install Node; skipping"; softly_failed+=("Node (nvm)")
fi
set -u
else
log "nvm is not installed, so Node was not set up"
fi
# --- Applications no repository packages -------------------------------------
#
# Everything else Panama installs comes from dnf or Flathub. These four do not
# exist in either, so each is an explicit exception with a reason, and each is
# skipped when already present so a re-run costs nothing.
#
# Claude Desktop is the half-exception: a repository does carry it, just not one
# Fedora or Flathub knows about, so what is exceptional there is adding the
# repository rather than installing around one.
#
# None of them pins a version. sunhat pinned URLs -- upscayl 2.11.5, LACT 0.5.4,
# a fedora-40 RPM -- and every one of them was a 404 within a release cycle. An
# installer that resolves "latest" keeps working; one that names a version rots.
#
# A failure here is logged and stepped over rather than aborting: this stage has
# already installed the desktop by this point, and an unreachable third-party
# host should not cost you that.
# Bun: the JavaScript runtime and package manager. No RPM, no flatpak.
if [[ -x "$HOME/.bun/bin/bun" ]]; then
log "Bun already installed at \"$HOME/.bun/bin/bun\""
else
log "Installing Bun via curl..."
curl -fsSL https://bun.sh/install | bash > /dev/null 2>&1 || { log "Bun install failed; skipping"; softly_failed+=("Bun"); }
fi
# Claude Code: Anthropic's CLI. The official installer keeps itself updated
# afterwards, so this runs once and then never needs to again.
if command -v claude >/dev/null 2>&1; then
log "Claude Code already installed at \"$(command -v claude)\""
else
log "Installing Claude Code via the official installer..."
curl -fsSL https://claude.ai/install.sh | bash > /dev/null 2>&1 || { log "Claude Code install failed; skipping"; softly_failed+=("Claude Code"); }
fi
setup_node
install_bun
install_claude_code
install_codex
# Claude Desktop: Anthropic ships macOS and Windows only, so this is a community
# RPM built from the official release. Panama used to build it from source -- it
@@ -406,20 +465,4 @@ for extra in ${PANAMA_EXTRAS:-}; do
fi
done
# --- What was stepped over ---------------------------------------------------
#
# Tolerating a failure is only better than aborting on it if somebody is told.
# This stage now survives a codec swap that finds nothing to swap, and the whole
# point of surviving it is that the desktop gets installed anyway -- but a
# machine missing its video codecs should say so once, here, rather than be
# discovered a week later by a video that will not play.
if (( ${#softly_failed[@]} > 0 )); then
log "Installed, but these were stepped over:"
printf ' - %s\n' "${softly_failed[@]}"
log "None of them stops the desktop, but this run is not recorded as"
log "complete, so the next 'panama update' tries them again."
# A step that did not complete has not happened. Exiting non-zero is what
# keeps ./install from stamping the packages hash over the gaps -- stamped,
# they would never be retried (the hash-skip would say nothing changed).
exit 1
fi
report_soft_failures