A package may be declared absent, and an uninstalled front end is retired for good (hq ADR 0175) #71

2026-10-02T14:28:59Z

mesh-admin commented

2026-10-02 14:28:59 +00:00

absent: true on a package: removed through the machine's own package manager when installed (arch pacman -R --noconfirm, alpine apk del; android unsupported), left alone when not, read back either way. Undeclaring a package still removes nothing — that rule and its test stand. A found firewall whose command is gone is recorded retired_by: removed, said once, and nothing is asked of it. Full suite green. Merge and roll before the mesh-catalog branch of the same name, which declares ufw absent.

`absent: true` on a package: removed through the machine's own package manager when installed (arch `pacman -R --noconfirm`, alpine `apk del`; android unsupported), left alone when not, read back either way. Undeclaring a package still removes nothing — that rule and its test stand. A found firewall whose command is gone is recorded `retired_by: removed`, said once, and nothing is asked of it. Full suite green. **Merge and roll before the mesh-catalog branch of the same name**, which declares ufw absent.

mesh-admin added 1 commit 2026-10-02 14:28:59 +00:00

A package may be declared absent, and an uninstalled front end is retired for good (hq ADR 0175) f57386cdea

absent: true on a package has the host remove it through the machine's own
package manager when it is installed and leave alone a machine that never had
it; read back either way. Undeclaring a package still removes nothing. A
found firewall whose command is gone is recorded as removed, said once, and
asked nothing of.

mesh-admin merged commit 5b73e04192 into main

2026-10-02 14:29:18 +00:00

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Reference: novox/mesh-host#71