feat(release): sign the tarball and publish a manifest for it - #294
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Issue #278, step 1. The per-user install is a raw ELF and the plugin cannot update it: on Linux it always takes install_inner to install_appimage, which renames the running file aside and writes AppImage bytes over it, so the first self-update silently changes what the installer put there. Until now there was nothing to verify against -- make-updater-json.mjs signed the AppImage only, and latest.json carries no signature for MonoCode_<version>_amd64.tar.gz. This lands the signature first, so the download-and-replace command in step 2 has something to check and is never in a position of trusting an unverified download. The tarball gets a second manifest, latest-tarball.json, rather than a second entry in platforms: both installs are linux-x86_64, so an entry there would collide on the key and one install would download the other's artifact. The AppImage manifest is unchanged, byte for byte. release.yml signs the tarball with the same minisign key after the tarball step, and the staging step carries the signature and the manifest into SHA256SUMS.txt. I checked the copy list against the checksum list in the same step, since that is where a new asset would be forgotten. Nothing reads latest-tarball.json yet. That is deliberate: it is published and signed before anything is allowed to trust it. node --test scripts/ 48 pass, check:version 13 pins, tsc clean.
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Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Change: Feature Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Workflow as Workflow de release
participant Minisign as minisign
participant Generator as make-updater-json
participant Assets as release-assets
participant Release as GitHub Release
Workflow->>Minisign: Assina o tarball
Workflow->>Generator: Gera latest-tarball.json com kind tarball
Workflow->>Assets: Copia os artefatos e gera SHA256SUMS.txt
Workflow->>Release: Publica os oito padrões validados
Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to The change signs the tarball and publishes a separate tarball manifest with stricter release-asset validation. The AppImage manifest is unchanged. No merge-blocking risk is visible. Architecture SummaryArchitecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to The change affects 2 systems. Changed systems: Architecture concerns Review detailsSystems and components
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- Line 157: Update the staged artifact-count check in the release workflow to
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CodeRabbit #294, and the finding was the difference between a published release and none. The staged list grew from six entries to eight when this PR added the tarball signature and its manifest, and the guard next to it still expected six. That fails the run before 'gh release create', so with every artifact present the release would have published nothing. Bumping the number to eight is the fix, and it leaves the shape that hid this: a second number to keep in step with a list. The guard now states the requirement as patterns and checks each one against the disk, requiring exactly one plain file. Checking the patterns rather than the list is the part that matters. nullglob removes a glob that matched nothing from 'staged', so counting the list cannot tell 'the file is missing' from 'there is one less asset than expected' -- both read as a shorter array. That is why the old count and a count of eight both look fine until they do not. Verified by extracting the guard from the YAML and running it against a staged directory with each of the eight assets removed in turn: all eight exit 1, and all eight pass when present. The two lists are identical in content and order, so nothing can be attached without also being required.
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Step 1 of #278: the tarball gets a signature, so a downloader can verify it.
The problem it leaves open
The per-user install (
scripts/install-linux-desktop.sh) is a raw ELF. On Linux the plugin always takesinstall_innertoinstall_appimage, which renames the running file aside and writes AppImage bytes over it. The first self-update silently changes what the installer put there, and the file keeps working because an AppImage is a valid executable.The reason it could not be fixed by pointing the updater at the tarball is the part this PR addresses:
make-updater-json.mjssigned the AppImage only, solatest.jsoncarried a signature for the AppImage and nothing forMonoCode_<version>_amd64.tar.gz. A downloader had nothing to verify against.Landing the signature first means step 2 is never in a position of trusting an unverified download.
What changed
scripts/make-updater-json.mjs:--kind tarballbuildslatest-tarball.json, a flat record with atarballentry. The AppImage manifest is byte for byte unchanged.scripts/make-updater-json.test.mjs: three tests. The one that matters asserts the two manifests never carry each other's signature or sha256, which is the collision this shape exists to prevent.docs/notes/tauri-boundary.md: the note, including that nothing reads the manifest yet..github/workflows/release.yml: signs the tarball with the same minisign key after the tarball step, and the staging step carries the signature and the manifest intoSHA256SUMS.txt.Why a second manifest and not a second platform
platformsis keyed by target triple, and both installs arelinux-x86_64. A second entry there would collide on the key, and one install would download the other's artifact. The test pins that the AppImage entry does not appear in the tarball manifest and the reverse.The staging step is where a new asset gets forgotten
The step copies the files and writes
SHA256SUMS.txtseparately, so an asset can be attached without being checksummed. I checked the two lists against each other in the same step, which the test does not cover: no file is copied without being summed.Verification
The workflow YAML parses, the sign step lands after the build and before staging, and the copy and checksum lists agree.
Not in this PR
Nothing reads
latest-tarball.json. The download-and-replace command (updater_apply_tarball) is step 2, and the Arch elevation question from our discussion is a separate decision that this does not touch.Summary by CodeRabbit
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