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 Gabriel Brown
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Fail when failing, stop when stopped, and survive what is neither
Four installer bugs, all in the space between exit codes and intent: - A flatpak-only extras category -- most of them -- died at the grep that filters out its dnf half, because grep exits 1 on zero matches and set -e read that as failure. sed deletes lines without editorial comment. The extras contract now runs a flatpak-only category under the installer's own strict options so this stays fixed. - A rate-limited GitHub API call aborted the whole package stage while resolving the RustDesk URL, even though the empty-result fallback was sitting right below it. The pipeline is now guarded so the fallback is reachable. - Ctrl-C did not stop the install: the INT trap ran cleanup and bash carried on with the remaining stages, MOK enrollment and firmware included. INT and TERM now exit explicitly; cleanup rides EXIT. - change-settings and link-dotfiles ran without set -e, so a failed copy over / or a failed symlink fell through to guarded no-ops and the stage reported success. Turning strictness on immediately caught what it had been hiding: link-dotfiles never created ~/.config, so on a truly fresh HOME every symlink was failing silently. |
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Gabriel Brown
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Let applications be chosen a few at a time
The catalog held fourteen applications. This machine runs thirty-four flatpaks, so most of what is actually used had no way to be installed from here at all -- Zoom, Slack, Obsidian, Spotify, LibreOffice, OBS and its sixteen plugins. So the catalog is seeded from the machine, and `panama apps` opens it: pick a category, tick what you want, install just those. ./install still offers the same catalog as whole categories, because during a first install you want coarse and fast. Both read setup/lib/extras-catalog. Two parsers would eventually disagree about what a category contains, and the one that disagreed quietly would be the one that runs unattended. Two pieces of syntax earn their keep. A `| Name` suffix gives the menu something readable, since com.obsproject.Studio is not a name anybody wants to pick from a list. An indented line belongs to the entry above it, which is how OBS carries its plugins as one thing to tick rather than seventeen -- they are extensions of the flatpak, useless alone. That is also why creative moved from dnf to Flathub: the plugins attach only to the flatpak, so the dnf build cannot have them. The rest of the category followed rather than leave one machine with GIMP from dnf and its neighbour from Flathub. The contract now reads the catalog through the same parser instead of keeping a third idea of the format, and checks the two things this syntax can break silently: a label leaking into an install command, and a bundle that installs the application without its plugins. It caught a typo in the Pixelorama id on the first run. It also got slow enough to be worth fixing -- fifty-one names, each its own network call. One bulk query per manager took it from minutes to four seconds. That query needs `flatpak remote-ls --all`: without it, end-of-life applications are hidden and read as missing, which reported yuzu as gone from Flathub when it installs perfectly well. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Q84axqUE5inJhf5Jz9CFy1 |
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Gabriel Brown
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Let a machine say what it is for, and give Firefox its face back
Phase 4: the optional application categories, and the Firefox chrome. Everything Panama installed until now was what every machine gets, which meant a work laptop acquired emulators and a desktop that wanted Steam had to be told about it by hand. The interview now offers the categories in setup/packages/extras/ as a checklist -- gaming, creative, communication, virtualization -- and nothing is preselected, because a default here installs applications nobody chose on a machine whose owner answered a question they thought was about something else. A category is one file, and a category mixes both package managers because the applications do: Steam is in RPM Fusion, Slack publishes only a flatpak. So a bare line is a dnf package and a flatpak: line is a Flathub ID, and one file holds the whole answer rather than splitting each category across two. The menu is read from the directory rather than written down, so adding a category is adding a file. Every name in all four was resolved against the actual repositories before being written down, and the contract re-resolves them -- the point of admitting applications one at a time is that they stay installable, and a typo here fails on somebody else's machine, not this one. Firefox is declared, and its chrome is Edge-Frfox, vendored into config/firefox. sunhat carried that theme with no license and no attribution; it is MIT, and now it says so and says whose it is. It is the only piece of Panama's configuration that does not go to a path this repository chooses. Firefox owns the profile directory, names it with a random salt, and does not create one until the browser has been run -- so link-dotfiles finds or creates a profile and links both halves into it. Both, or neither works: chrome/ is the CSS and user.js sets the preference that makes Firefox read chrome/ at all, without which the theme is a directory of dead files. Two assumptions there were wrong, and the contract exists for both. Firefox has moved to the XDG directories -- the profile root is ~/.config/mozilla/firefox on this build, not ~/.mozilla/firefox, and writing to the wrong one themes nothing and says nothing about it. And -CreateProfile turns out to be non-interactive, so a fresh machine gets the theme on the first install rather than the second. The contract runs link-dotfiles for real against a throwaway home with no profile in it and looks at what came out; it was checked by pointing the search at the legacy path only and watching it fail. Also: the enrolment/enrollment spellings from the last commit are corrected. This repository is US-spelled everywhere else -- color 1131 times against colour never -- and consistency in prose is worth as much as it is in code. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NvgBuSWB5sE43yWmg21ozj |