The workspace workflow asked the distro SPOT two questions through embedded python one-liners: the matrix image list, and the distro behind a matrix entry. Give both a name -- distro_of_dev_runtime_image() as the counterpart to dev_runtime_image(), and a cli.meta.ci.dev_runtime module shaped like its image_ref neighbour. The empty-SPOT guard that protected the matrix from silently skipping every job moves along with it. No caller yet; the workflow switches over in the next commit.
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The env generator runs on the bare bootstrap python, before any
dependency is installed. utils/distros.py reached PyYAML through
utils.cache.yaml, so `python -m cli.meta.env` died with
ModuleNotFoundError on every dev-runtime image that ships python3
without PyYAML.
utils/yaml_bootstrap.load_block reads the block-YAML subset the SPOT
files use with stdlib only. It raises BootstrapYamlError on anything it
cannot parse identically to yaml.safe_load, so meta/distros.yml fails
loud instead of drifting.
The per-line regex lint meant to guard this is gone: one hop of
indirection defeated it and it stayed green while the invariant was
broken. It is replaced by a test that runs the real generator with
every non-stdlib import blocked.
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categories.yml moves from roles/ to the repository-root meta/, joining packages.yml. utils/roles/categories.py owns its location plus the tree-walking helpers that were stranded in entity/name.py, so no caller spells the path or duplicates the lookup.
meta/distros.yml becomes the SPOT for every distribution: os_family, Galaxy platform name, dev-environment base image, and the pkgmgr/pkgmgr-virgin/environment reference templates. It replaces seven scattered copies (DISTRO_FAMILY, VALID_DISTROS, _DISTROS, _CANONICAL_PLATFORMS, two shell arrays, a Makefile literal). INFINITO_DISTROS is no longer a static default but generated by utils/env/handlers/infinito/distros.py; the shell consumers read it through the env layer.
Drops dead CLI surface found along the way: --categories-file and --roles-dir on the provision CLI plus three unused parameters of generate_dynamic_inventory, and the positional roles_file of the invokable categories command.
tests/lint/repository/test_distros_spot.py pins the copies that cannot call the SPOT (workflow literals, docs table) and forbids composing a pkgmgr reference outside it.
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