The forge caps a page at fifty when asked for a hundred, so a large merge's
file list was cut short and reported whole: a module whose own files moved
was not rebuilt. Read until a page comes back short. hq issue 252.
The stock collector keeps only what a manifest names, and the mesh's bundles
and archives are bare blobs no manifest names: its first run, tonight at
03:30, would delete every one, the current ones included. It now reports
what it would delete and deletes nothing, until the controller holds each
kept archive with a manifest. hq issue 253.
The merge tool announced pull.merged and so did the poll added for issue
131, so every merge made through the tool reached the controller twice.
The poll sees every path and carries the clone url; it is now the only
emitter. hq issue 250.
openrazer (the official driver, daemon and library), polychromatic (the
AUR tray, kept as found; its i3 line moves out of the i3 module into its
own node-display-session contribution), forticlient (the AUR VPN client:
its service declared, its configuration never read) and nm-applet (the
desktop half of NetworkManager, apart from the server-side module).
The openrazer daemon fails on both workstations because the account is
not in the openrazer group; openrazer_check names it and the README
carries the one-off step, since the account's user resource is zsh's.
desktop.go learns to tell a program from another sharing its 15-character
command name, so polychromatic's tools never count or end themselves, and
a copies test holds the six carriers to one text.
Slack comes from the AUR and Toolbox from JetBrains' self-updating tarball,
so neither is declared: the host installs official packages only, and a
pinned archive would fight Toolbox's own updates. Slack's start and the
operator's i3 window rules become one node-display-session contribution,
because Slack's own launch-on-login is a symlink in ~/.config/autostart.
Toolbox keeps its own autostart entry as its one start. The shared
desktop.go header now names all four bundles.
On g14 the node's own watch took a home registration before the tool did,
and the answer said 'already so' though the file had just been placed.
Compare the view before and after, and render whenever the item applies
here, as the MCP server registration already does.
Withdrawn 2026-10-04 to unblock novox: while-stopped named the module-local
id and the host refuses a declaration naming a container it does not have,
whole. mesh-controller#259 fixed the namespacing and it has been live since,
so the window composes as distribution.store and the host will take it.
Unchanged from before: plain garbage-collect at 03:30 with the server held
still. The store is at 40G and nothing reclaims it until this runs.
Refuse paths with empty, dot or parent segments and a file that is also a
directory; take an item only when its key says what it is; write the view
under its lock; expand nodes all and check node names; merge the plugin's
entries into the operator's own; render every file past one that fails;
in the home, never take over the person's file, never write through a
symbolic link, keep a deleted file deleted, keep the kind's directory; and
refuse settings that would deny the console or the marketplace.
Review of the nox-mesh plugin: a watch hands over what is there, not what
went, so the view is pruned to the state's keys before it starts; the
watches and the tools render one at a time, as the home's record is read
and written whole; the register answer names how an item is offered.
The first restore of an arr app refused its settings file with "not a directory": restic restores
a snapshot's subfolder, not a file. A file is restored with its full path into a scratch directory
beside the target, moved into place, and the scratch removed.
The arr apps keep SQLite databases; a consistent copy of a live one is sqlite3's .backup. Declared
once, by the holder that runs the copies, rather than by each app.
The first run on the control node called postgres's dumps missing: the holder looked as the
runtime's account, which cannot see inside a store's 0700 data directory. Every other act already
runs as root; the existence checks do too now.
Go is the default for module code. One binary, fail2ban-tools, serving the node-intrusion-prevention
seat's four verbs and fail2ban_settings over the SDK, with the same parsing and the same tests; read
back against the control node's live daemon.
Go is the default for new module code; the holder is one binary like the licence manager, serving
the seat's verbs over the SDK and running the nights beside them. Same behaviour and tests.
Skills, subagents, commands and hooks had no machine-wide place, so they were
copied into homes by hand and drifted. Each is now registered once through the
module's tools, kept in its config state, and written per node: the plugin in
the managed directory, settings and instructions in the managed files, or the
account's own directory, touching only what the module placed. hq ADR 0216.
A live restart of the system bus during an upgrade hung every login on a
workstation until a reboot. The module owns the bus's packages, declares
the bus running with no restart or reload trigger, publishes only curated
events (health, services, denials; never traffic) and serves tools to look
at both buses.
The workstations' XDG conventions had no owner: xdg-user-dirs-update rewrote
the folders file at every login, both machines' default-application lists
named an editor neither has, and the laptop kept two dead links of the
retired predecessor. The module adopts the operator's folders (three as
settings, as the machines differ), disables the update so it cannot undo the
mesh's file, and writes the machine's own mimeapps list, the last one read,
so the person's choices in their own list always win. Autostart is listed,
not owned: each entry is its application's module's.
ADR 0214 / to-be 43. restic keeps one repository per machine and takes a nightly snapshot per
module — 14 daily, 8 weekly, 6 monthly — and restores beside the live data, never over it. postgres,
mssql and mongodb contribute a consistent dump; minio, influxdb, the vault, mailu, gitea and
nextcloud the directories that hold their data.
Both are official packages already on both workstations, started once by dex from an XDG
autostart entry (the client's own, the package's). The modules declare the package, add no
second start, own none of the apps' files, and give the mesh status, log, restart and check.
rofi, clipmenu, feh, i3status-rust and the laptop's model module wrote files into i3's config.d,
naming no dependency on the window manager. They now contribute their lines; i3 places them under a
line naming each module, and config.d is the operator's alone. The catalogue-wide test composes the
contributions as the controller does and checks the whole with i3 -C.
A licence store rebuilt after issue 241 counted generations from one again,
and nodes that apply only a higher number discarded the login move and the
rotations unseen. Nodes now apply any binding other than the one applied;
the manager moves its sequence past every generation a node reports. hq
issue 243.
mssql disables the login, mongodb takes the user's roles, minio revokes the key and keeps the bucket,
mailu disables the mailbox, gitea prohibits the login instead of purging the user and their
repositories, umami keeps the website. Each provider's create already enables what this locks.
On one server the watcher reported a lock that logind did not list. A descriptor that is not an
inhibitor reference is never wrapped (0 would be the bundle's stdin, its channel to the runtime), and
every poll checks the lock is still held, taking it again and saying why when it is not.
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