Refuse a silent source build in CI - #463
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Whitaker republishes its rolling release on every merge, and the publish briefly left the tag without a complete asset set. A consumer landed in it: chutoro's install began at 02:47:02 on 2026-09-05, the same second a republish deleted the release, could not fetch cargo-dylint-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-v6.0.1.tgz, and built the Dylint tools from source instead. That build succeeded, which is the difficulty. The run looked healthy while testing something else, more slowly, against sources nobody pinned. A new `ci-mode` input, on by default, closes it from the consumer's side, so every caller is protected without waiting on an installer release. Before the installer runs it verifies the rolling release carries this target's manifest, the lint archive that manifest names, and both Dylint tool archives. The archive name is derived from the manifest rather than guessed, so a manifest that survived a republish while its archive did not is caught as well as an incomplete set. It retries five times over about thirty seconds, because the window is six or seven and a run that merely arrived mid-publish should wait rather than fail, and it fails with the URL when the assets are genuinely absent. Afterwards it reads the installer's own output, not a green exit, and records whitaker-installer.suite-source=prebuilt|source, failing the step on source. The resolved nightly is recorded as whitaker-installer.suite-toolchain, so a lint result can be tied to the compiler that built the libraries. `ci-mode` also rejects a non-empty suite-version. A pin forces the source build the mode exists to prevent, so honouring both would let a lane acquire one by setting a single input; `allow-suite-pin: true` makes that deliberate. Only stdout is captured from the installer. Merging stderr into it would cost the stream distinction its failure notices rely on, and pipefail keeps the installer's exit status across the pipe. test_no_lifecycle_step_invokes_cargo now anchors to command position rather than substring, since one fragment greps for the phrase the installer prints when it falls back and a substring check cannot tell a detector from an invocation. Dropping the CI-mode source failure and honouring a suite pin in CI mode were each run as mutations and each fails.
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Tests passed, including 165 action tests, mutation testing, formatting, Markdown linting, and action validation. WalkthroughThe action adds CI-mode validation for suite pins and rolling-release assets. It captures installer output, reports the suite source and toolchain, and rejects unintended source builds. Tests and documentation cover the new behaviour. ChangesWhitaker CI safeguards
Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Action as install-whitaker action
participant Verifier as verify_rolling_assets.py
participant GitHub as GitHub release API
participant Installer as Whitaker installer
Action->>Verifier: verify rolling assets
Verifier->>GitHub: fetch release and manifest
GitHub-->>Verifier: assets and toolchain
Verifier-->>Action: verification result
Action->>Installer: run installation
Installer-->>Action: installer output
Action-->>Action: record suite source and enforce CI rules
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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The installer’s new CI safeguards are covered, but the metric description needs clarification and the Cargo detection test may reject harmless diagnostic text. These are bounded issues that should be corrected before relying on the new checks broadly. Caution Pre-merge checks failedPlease resolve all errors before merging. Addressing warnings is optional.
❌ Failed checks (3 errors, 5 warnings)
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Full details: Testing (Overall)Explanation The new tests cover important verifier and source-detection paths, but they do not rigorously guard all changed behaviour. The action scenario harness cannot evaluate the new condition Resolution Fix the test harness to evaluate conjunctions faithfully, or test the verification step with an explicit executable stub and assert that the step runs for CI with no suite pin and skips only for the intended pin or non-CI cases. Copy or inject the verifier used by the scenario. Assert target selection for each supported runner, Full details: User-Facing DocumentationExplanation The users' guide clearly documents the new Resolution Update Full details: Developer DocumentationExplanation Update the developer documentation. The PR changes the Resolution Add an Full details: Testing (Unit And Behavioural)Explanation Fail the testing check. The pull request adds the network-facing Resolution Add action-level behavioural tests for Full details: Testing (Property / Proof)Explanation The pull request introduces a range-based invariant in the new rolling-asset verifier: verification must succeed only when all target-specific assets and the manifest-derived archive are present, must return the manifest toolchain, and must stop or fail within the configured retry sequence. The implementation handles arbitrary target, manifest, asset-set, and retry-page combinations in Resolution Add a Hypothesis property test for Full details: Unit ArchitectureExplanation Refactor the new verifier before merge. The changed Resolution Split the verifier into a pure asset decision function, an explicit fallible release reader, and a retry command. Inject a narrow reader and sleeper or retry policy into the orchestration boundary. Keep Full details: Domain ArchitectureExplanation Refactor the new rolling-release verifier before merge. The pull request places release policy and GitHub transport in one module. Resolution Create a pure domain-policy module with explicit types such as Full details: ObservabilityExplanation Add observability for the new retrying network operation. The pull request adds GitHub API and release reads in Resolution Instrument the release-list and manifest verification calls with spans that identify the verification operation and target, record attempt timing and bounded retry attributes, and exclude Comment |
Reviewer's GuideThe action now fails closed around Whitaker rolling-release gaps: it validates all target-specific published assets with bounded retries before installation, detects and rejects silent source fallbacks in CI, records the source path and resolved toolchain, and documents and tests the new contracts and opt-out behavior. Sequence diagram for CI Whitaker asset verification and installationsequenceDiagram
participant CI as CI workflow
participant Action as install-whitaker action
participant Checker as verify_rolling_assets.py
participant GitHub as Whitaker rolling release
participant Installer as Whitaker installer
CI->>Action: run with ci-mode=true
Action->>Checker: verify(target, Attempt(5, 6), token)
loop up to 5 attempts
Checker->>GitHub: read release assets and manifest
GitHub-->>Checker: asset names and manifest
alt assets complete
Checker-->>Action: toolchain
else assets missing or temporarily unavailable
Checker->>Checker: wait 6 seconds
end
end
alt assets remain unavailable
Checker-->>Action: failure with asset URL
Action-->>CI: fail before installation
else assets complete
Action->>Installer: run installer
Installer-->>Action: stdout and exit status
Action->>Action: tee stdout and detect fallback notice
alt source fallback and ci-mode=true
Action-->>CI: record suite-source=source and fail
else prebuilt install
Action-->>CI: record suite-source=prebuilt and suite-toolchain
end
end
Flow diagram for CI mode and suite pin policyflowchart TD
Start([Action inputs]) --> Validate{ci-mode is true?}
Validate -->|No| Install[Run installer]
Validate -->|Yes| Pin{suite-version is non-empty?}
Pin -->|Yes| Allow{allow-suite-pin is true?}
Allow -->|No| Reject[Fail input validation]
Allow -->|Yes| Install
Pin -->|No| Verify[Verify rolling assets with retries]
Verify -->|Missing after retries| FailAssets[Fail with missing asset URL]
Verify -->|Complete| Install
Install --> Output{Installer output indicates source fallback?}
Output -->|No| Success[Record suite-source=prebuilt and succeed]
Output -->|Yes, ci-mode=true| FailSource[Record suite-source=source and fail]
Output -->|Yes, ci-mode=false| SourceAllowed[Record suite-source=source and allow completion]
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Two defects Codex found, both of which would have shown up the first time someone used the feature. allow-suite-pin passed validation and then failed the run. A pin builds from source by definition, so the source-build rejection caught the very outcome the allowance exists to permit. An escape hatch that fails later is worse than no escape hatch, because the caller has been told it works. The rejection now exempts a source build that a permitted pin explains, and only that: an unpinned source build still fails with the allowance set, since there is no reason for one and it is the missing-asset case this mode catches. Retry diagnostics went to stdout, which the caller captures as the toolchain. The retry path is the republish case the loop was added for, so the metric would have carried retry lines exactly when the retry did its job. They go to stderr. The README's input table gained the three new inputs; prose alone left the public contract incomplete. The table is rebuilt aligned, because the existing one was a column short of its own separator. CodeScene flagged the documented-inputs expectation at 85 lines. The literal is the contract, so it moves to a module constant rather than being split; the assertion is unchanged and the method is one line. Both defects were run as mutations and both fail.
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Retry diagnostics went to stdout, which the caller captures as the toolchain. The retry path is the republish case the loop was added for, so the recorded toolchain would have carried retry lines exactly when the retry did its job. They go to stderr, and a test asserts stdout holds the toolchain alone while the diagnostic appears on stderr. The README table gained the three inputs. Prose alone left the public contract incomplete. I rebuilt the table aligned, since the existing one was a column short of its own separator and the formatter would not fix that on its own. CodeScene's Large Method finding is addressed by moving the documented-inputs literal to a module constant. The literal is the contract, so splitting it would have weakened the assertion; the method is now one line and the comparison is unchanged. Both defects were run as mutations and both fail: returning the diagnostics to stdout, and dropping the allowance from the rejection. Full action suite: 165 pass. |
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In @.github/actions/install-whitaker/tests/test_install_whitaker.py:
- Around line 445-447: Update the invocation regular expression to include
\bif\b in its command-boundary alternatives, alongside the existing then/do/else
boundaries, so it matches both cargo install and cargo binstall commands used in
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In `@docs/users-guide.md`:
- Around line 459-466: Update the user guide’s ci-mode documentation to cover
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CodeRabbit found that the command-boundary recognizer omitted `if`, so `if cargo install ...; then` would have slipped past the rule meant to stop a Cargo fallback reappearing. That is the shape a fallback is most likely to take, which makes it the worst omission on the list. The boundaries now cover if, elif, while, until and a leading `!`, and the recognizer is asserted directly against six invocation shapes and two mentions rather than inferred from fragments that happen to be clean today. The users' guide now records `ci-mode: false` for a deliberate local source build, and both new metrics, so a reader can identify the path a run took and the toolchain its libraries were built with.
The previous commit pushed with markdownlint red. A grep filter stood between the gate and its verdict again, so the pipeline's exit status belonged to tail rather than make and the chain carried on.
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CodeRabbit found that the keyword alternatives matched anywhere in a line, so `echo 'if cargo install cargo-dylint'` read as an invocation. The rule would then have rejected a fragment that merely quotes the phrase, which is the mirror image of the miss it was added to close: over-matching makes the contract fail on correct text rather than pass on wrong text, and both are ways of not saying what it means. The keywords now follow the boundary rather than standing in for one, and three quoted-text cases join the benign set. The previous pattern matches two of them. Also corrects a duplicated article in the users' guide's suite-toolchain sentence.
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Item 2 of the rolling-release packet. Whitaker PR #413 closes the window from the publisher's side; this closes it from every consumer's side, without waiting on an installer release.
The failure this prevents
Whitaker republishes its rolling release on every merge to
main. Until #413 the publish deleted the release and its tag and then recreated both, leaving a six-to-seven-second hole. Chutoro's install began at 02:47:02 on 2026-09-05, the same second a delete began, could not fetchcargo-dylint-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-v6.0.1.tgz, and built the Dylint tools from source instead.That build succeeded. The run looked healthy while testing something else, more slowly, against sources nobody pinned. Nothing in the logs said so unless you went looking.
What
ci-modedoesA new input, on by default.
Before the installer runs it verifies the rolling release carries this target's manifest, the lint archive that manifest names, and both Dylint tool archives. The archive name is derived from the manifest rather than guessed, so a manifest that survived a republish while its archive did not is caught as well as an incomplete set. It retries five times over about thirty seconds, because the window is six or seven seconds and a run that merely arrived mid-publish should wait rather than fail. If the assets are genuinely absent it fails with the URL.
Afterwards it reads the installer's own output, not a green exit, and records
whitaker-installer.suite-source=<prebuilt|source>, failing the step onsource. The resolved nightly is recorded aswhitaker-installer.suite-toolchain=<toolchain>, so a lint result can be tied to the compiler that built the libraries.It rejects a non-empty
suite-version. A pin forces the source build the mode exists to prevent, so honouring both would let a lane acquire one by setting a single input.allow-suite-pin: truemakes that deliberate. Setci-mode: falsefor local reproduction, where a source build is a legitimate choice.Two decisions worth review
Only stdout is captured from the installer. Merging stderr into it would cost the stream distinction its failure notices rely on, and an existing test asserts one of those notices reaches stderr.
pipefailis already set, so the installer's exit status survives the pipe.test_no_lifecycle_step_invokes_cargonow anchors to command position rather than substring. One fragment greps for the phrase the installer prints when it falls back tocargo install, and a substring check cannot tell a detector from an invocation. The rule that matters is unchanged and still fails on a realcargo install.Contracts
test_verify_rolling_assets.pycovers the checker directly: a complete release returns the toolchain and is not polled again; each missing asset class fails closed and names itself with the URL; a short absence is waited out over three attempts; a transport failure is distinguished from a missing asset; a manifest withoutgit_shaortoolchainfails as malformed rather than as a missing archive.test_install_whitaker_suite_pin.pycovers the outcome:prebuilton the ordinary path,sourcefailing the step in CI mode, andsourcereported but allowed outside it. A source build must not be recorded asresult=success.test_install_whitaker_inputs.pycovers the rule, includingyesand1being rejected rather than read as false, since treating a near-miss as false would silently disable the protection a caller meant to enable.Two mutations were run and each fails: dropping the CI-mode source failure, and honouring a suite pin in CI mode.
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make check-fmtmake lintmake typecheckmake markdownlint(with spelling)install-whitakertestsThe checker was also run against the live rolling release for
x86_64-unknown-linux-gnuandx86_64-pc-windows-msvc, returningnightly-2026-05-28for both.Item 3, the installer's own
--no-source-fallbackand explicit prebuilt-versus-source reporting, ships as whitaker 0.2.9 and this action adopts it in a later bump. Until then the fallback notice is the only evidence available, and matching it is better than assuming a run that passed used the binaries it was meant to.Summary by Sourcery
Make Whitaker installation fail closed when CI cannot consume the expected published binaries.
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