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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The required_by coverage verifier treated every flat 'required_by: {categories/roles}' as required in BOTH deploy modes. But sys-ctl-rpr-container-hard/soft repair compose compositions (DIR_COMPOSITIONS) and gate their body to compose; declaring required_by:[web] flat made the verifier expect them on swarm too, where they correctly skip, so web-opt-rdr-domains swarm CI failed 'required role(s) did not execute'. Let required_by nest under 'compose:'/'swarm:'; the verifier infers the deploy mode from the role set, mirroring DEPLOYMENT_MODE's own groups['svc-swarm-node'] definition, and enforces only the matching mode.
Migrate all 21 existing flat declarations to mirror under both modes (behavior unchanged) and mark sys-ctl-rpr-container-* compose-only. role_has_required_by reads both forms. New lint test_required_by_mode_keys requires the explicit compose:/swarm: form so the flat-vs-gate contradiction can't recur.
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- Move role_is_invokable / role_has_required_by / role_has_nocheck out
of plugins/filter (where they were flagged as test-only filters) into
utils/roles/required_by_coverage.py. All three use load_yaml_any,
read_text, and ROLE_FILE_META_SERVICES from the canonical SPOTs.
- Refactor the verifier (cli.meta.roles.services.called) the same way:
iterate roles/*/ directly, look up meta/services.yml via the constant,
parse with load_yaml_any, and tolerate a missing roles_dir (unit tests
point at a fake /repo).
- Make the mailu-dependency integration test yaml-aware for meta/
services.yml: walk the parsed tree and skip values inside any
`required_by` subtree. `required_by` is inverse coverage metadata for
the deploy verifier, not a "consumer of mailu" reference, so previous
regex-on-text matching produced false positives for cert-deploy.
- sys-ctl-mtn-cert-renew is gated by `lookup('tls', application_id,
'mode') == 'letsencrypt'`, which the verifier can't express via
role-id/category match — mark nocheck with the reason inline.
- Add README.md for cli/meta/roles/services (CLI-category convention).
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