novox's mongodb and mssql asked a yes for moving their data on a toolchain move: the running side, read back from the
kept declaration, carries no data flag, and judge.go returned moves-data on the flag before it compared the data
directories and files, so a flag mismatch both raised a false ask and hid a real move. Now moves-data only when a
data item (a directory or file within the data places, or a process of a module with data) changes; a flag-only
difference is neither, with a WARNING in its words. One row changed and one added in TestJudgeMove.
After the take-over of placement on 2026-10-29, shanks's runtime stopped serving the folded systemd-resolved (the
node-resolver seat's verbs answer "nothing serves") and novox's the folded nats. Neither has a want: each runs inside
its node's own composition at a build of the old form (Scope.InOwn), and is composed as Carried of the indexer's
manifest. That manifest is the catalogue's, which no build resolved, so it has no bundles (catalogue/build.go: Bundles
are set only by a build's resolution), and the runtime's MESH_TOOL_MODULES and MESH_TOOL_ENV are made from bundles
(catalogue/runtime.go). The controller composed them from the resolved manifest its store kept.
The kind: a module composed as what runs of it (Stub, Carried: held, or folded at an old build) contributes to the
others from its manifest, not from what runs. For a held module with a new build it is the other way round: its new
bundles are served, which were never delivered.
- The quick fix: read the old-form build's resolved manifest for a folded module. One instance; a held module still
hands its new bundles.
- The thorough fix, chosen: compose.ToolsRunning reads what the node's runtime serves as it runs (its process's
MESH_TOOL_MODULES and MESH_TOOL_ENV, each bundle's archive), frombus gives it as Node.RunsTools, and every stubbed
module of the machine's runtime (held or carried) contributes those bundles, whatever its manifest says.
Tests: two rows (folded, held) added to TestCompositionsAreTheDeclarationSplitByModule; no new test function.
mesh/check pass dbcaa29a1a38 on 394fec8a63c1 | unit 3318 run, 1951 kept, 38 skipped | integration 3994 run, 2125 kept, 38 skipped | over bound: unit, …
On novox on 2026-10-29 de-spiegel, held for an unset config value, held mailu, route-proxy and nftables ("it reads
what de-spiegel contributes or listens on"), and mailu held postgres. mesh-sdk #128 (issue 1126) stopped the hold
spreading to consumers and collectors but kept dependents(): the provider of what a held module contributes to, and
the filter where it listens, were held behind it, transitively.
- Quick fix: drop dependents() alone. The filter and the proxy would then read a held module's new manifest, which
may not be what runs (review of the apply, round 2).
- Thorough fix, chosen: no module is held behind another, in the apply and in the answer (dependents, heldBehind and
the held-behind path of heldAsToday removed). A held module offers what it last offered: its contributions and
listens from its manifest at the build its own composition runs at (ranOf), else the manifest it is composed from.
Only the part of its offer that does not compose is left out, by provision (culprit): de-spiegel's routes leave
route-proxy without them, while mailu keeps its smtp account; the hold names it.
Tests: rows changed in the existing answer test (de-spiegel held, mailu and proxy composed; site held, the filter
composed with what runs; leave-out by provision). No new test function.
mesh/check pass c2999a4e13cc on d4c61ee8ffd0 | unit 3054 run, 234 kept, 36 skipped | integration 3075 run, 266 kept, 29 skipped | over bound: unit (sl…
novox's seed p-20261028t231141-ec84b4 refused 11 modules "what it composes of ..., held, is not what runs of them":
de-spiegel's hold spread through mailu to postgres, nftables and route-proxy, and from postgres to every consumer, and
gitea, held so, refused the node: "its credential of postgres-database is handed to the provisioner and the module is
not: nothing would fill it". Three rounds each moved the error. The kind: a held module still took part in the
composition as a dependence, so its hold spread.
- The quick fix: let heldAsToday also follow dependsOnHeld's words, and skip the handed refusal for gitea. It moves the
error once more and leaves every node's applying path holding consumers.
- The thorough fix, chosen: a held module composes only as what runs of it. composeEach no longer compares the
composition with each held module as its stub (dependsOnHeld removed): a consumer or collector composes against what
runs of the held module like any other module, and a real difference is still a named difference in the answer, a
module's own refusal still its refusal. A stub (compose.Stub, catalogue.Manifest.Stubbed) leaves the credentials and
own secrets it would hand the provisioner out of its plan as they run, never refused for want of a plan. Only what a
held module's new manifest says to others in their own files is still held behind it (dependents: the provider of
what it contributes to, the filter where it listens), which heldAsToday already follows.
Tests: rows added to existing tests (a held provider with a binding consumer, which the old code held in the seed's
words; a held feeder of a collector; a held module with a handed credential and own secret). No new test function.
mesh/check failed: the composition: the manifest of mesh-delivery-assigner uses what mesh-controller at ba4d15657343d3116bd6657f85e53630a7dbabf2 (mesh…
mesh/delivery-group group feat/774-vault-mints-l2 checking: the checker's verdict is out of date: novox/mesh-delivery@f6df07605dd0 was judged on trunk 5b2e5bc5…
mesh-catalog #553's verdict stayed running after its step passed on shanks
at 19:09:31Z on 2026-10-28: the watch of that one step key, opened at
18:46:05Z, heard neither the start nor the end and never closed. HeardEnds
stands between Asker and each ask's watch: nudged at each step end of the
same build module (HearEnds: one watch per steps state) and at a reconnect,
every waited ask reads its keys now; a watch that closes is opened again, at
most 3 times. The checker and the builder both wait through it.
Tests: a section of the asker's test (deaf, nudged by another module and by
its own, a watch that closes); counts unchanged.
jschoubben
mesh-tools