Each node's reflector ranked its own list on its own timer, and on 2026-10-31 one node's
lagging first mirror left it a Node.js version behind the rest. The list is now the
module's state mirrors, key list: the node that opens a week's round ranks it with the
module's reflector options, keeps only mirrors whose last sync is no older than the
newest found, and the round's key names the list's revision. Every keeper writes
/etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist whole from the key through the root helper's new verb
mirrorlist, when the key changes and when the file differs, and never writes an empty
or unreadable list. reflector.timer is declared stopped and disabled, and reflector.conf
saves nothing. pacman_mirrors answers the shared list, its ranker and age and whether
this node's file matches; with refresh it asks this node's keeper to rank again,
refused while a round runs, naming it. The round's integration test proves the opening
write and both nodes' files.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NcbgfJ9Gum47zkFKWRaovL
pacman-conf proved the shipped pacman.conf through its Include of
/etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist, which the shut-off unit level does not have: the
proven file now reads a mirror list of its own, and a guard test holds that
every repository of the shipped file includes the list reflector writes.
ssh-client's Test case for a run without an agent read the account's
SSH_AUTH_SOCK, so it failed on any desk with an agent: it now sets its own,
and also proves the environment's agent is the one reported.
The keeper process runs under its own account with a bus account of its own,
keeps the six states and emits the nine events of ADR 0507 and ADR 0508; its
config (upgrade-order, record-days, round-start-minutes) lands in its config
file and restarts it. shapes.go fixes every key's value and event body as the
interface the keeper and the verbs share. The weekly timer and its service are
dropped, which the node-engine removes.
Mirrors were generated once and never again and caches never cleaned. The
module holds node-package-manager (hq ADR 0207), declares pacman itself, owns
/etc/pacman.conf whole — [options] cannot take an appended block — with the
union of the enabled repositories and improved options, proven by pacman-conf
in its test, and enables reflector.timer (its config owned) and
paccache.timer. Fifteen tools from a Go bundle; transactions run as transient
units so a call's timeout never kills pacman mid-transaction (to-be 42).
jschoubben
mesh-tools
jochen