What runs is the agent's compositions plus the kept declaration's rest: health, filling, take act, directories and the others held out of an apply read it; a restart trusts the node-engine's own haves; the bed tests run off Arch (review round 1)

cmd/mesh-host/nodeagent_integration_test.go

@@ -18,9 +18,7 @@ import (
 	"github.com/nats-io/nats-server/v2/server"
 	"github.com/nats-io/nats.go"
 	"github.com/novox/mesh-host/internal/agent"
-	"github.com/novox/mesh-host/internal/apply"
 	"github.com/novox/mesh-host/internal/link"
-	"github.com/novox/mesh-host/internal/system"
 )
 
 // The node agent whole, against a real bus with JetStream started in the test: the wants bucket, the node's composition
@@ -66,15 +64,18 @@ func aServer(t *testing.T) *nats.Conn {
 
 func newItBed(t *testing.T) *itBed {
 	t.Helper()
-	built, err := system.For("arch")
-	if err != nil || built.Confirm(context.Background(), apply.ExecRunner) != nil {
-		t.Skip("this machine is not one these tests can apply on")
+	// Not skipped off Arch: a package manager that answers is put on PATH, so the apply of files runs on any build node.
+	bin := t.TempDir()
+	if err := os.WriteFile(filepath.Join(bin, "pacman"), []byte("#!/bin/sh\nexit 0\n"), 0o755); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
+	t.Setenv("PATH", bin+string(os.PathListSeparator)+os.Getenv("PATH"))
 	was := builtFor
 	builtFor = "arch"
 	t.Cleanup(func() { builtFor = was })
 
 	b := &itBed{t: t, conn: aServer(t), dir: t.TempDir()}
+	var err error
 	if b.js, err = b.conn.JetStream(); err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}