Every role's base services carry `docs.enabled: "{{ 'web-app-docs' in
group_names }}"`, and the static closure counts any "in group_names" flag
as possibly true (is_explicit_truth). A round therefore pulled web-app-docs
in through any member whose active variant did not pin docs off, and a
round hands every role its index or clamps it to variant 0, where 84 roles
declare docs on. The README replay and everything it drags in (dashboard,
matomo, keycloak, prometheus with its MCP partners) landed in 365 of 469
rounds instead of one per role, which ran CI run 40625679270 out of
resources: Listmonk#0 memory, OpenProject#0 I/O in the DR drill,
Nextcloud#0/#2 budget (4310-4539 s in the replay each, 60 s over),
BookWyrm#0 drill disk, Matrix#1/#3 pids in the replay; none of those
primaries declares docs in the failing variant.
The guide host now stays on only where the primary app's own variant
declares it (declares_guide, the predicate instructions.py already used);
every other role has it switched off (guide_off), in the planner's round
overrides and in the swarm include set. The host_vars bake drops a docs
edge whenever the round does not deploy web-app-docs. Measured for
listmonk, openproject, translate and mariadb: web-app-docs is deployed in
exactly each primary's declared guide round, swarm and planner agree in
all 12 rounds, and rounds shed up to ten apps (mariadb#1 19 -> 9).
test_guide_rides_the_primary_only pins that on real role data (it fails
with the rule disabled); test_variant_pin_required leaves the guide host
out of its clone comparison and no longer counts the docs key as a
pairing edge, because the replay no longer follows a partner's index.
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services_overrides_for_round applied the # variant-pin: markers when it resolved a round's include set, while plan_dev_inventory_matrix built round_variants, which the inventory bake, the deploy CLI and the swarm matrix read, by clamping the round index alone. Once docs variant 0 pinned web-app-dashboard#reciprocal, round 2 of a sweep resolved dashboard variant 1 (SSO off, no web-app-keycloak in the inventory) but baked variant 0 (SSO on): Keycloak came up without its own bake, defaulted totp_enabled to true, and every dashboard login stopped at CONFIGURE_TOTP while the Keycloak card was missing (11 jobs of run 40042690056).
active_variants_for_round holds the clamp-plus-pins logic once; services_overrides_for_round and the planner both call it, and the planner keeps the primary apps' indices on top.
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Every desktop job of run 36246124624 aborted before ansible started:
[ERROR] Some application_ids are invalid for this inventory:
- user-workstation: not present in inventory
The include list the planner returns becomes two things at once: the
inventory provisioner's --include, and the deploy ids validate_application_ids
checks against the resulting inventory. The inventory is built from
get_all_invokable_apps, and utils/roles/stage.py loops a stage only over
invokable category paths, so a non-invokable id in that list is one no group
can hold and no stage can dispatch. `user-workstation` landed there because
the desktop-base service edge pulls it into the closure.
Measured over all 179 invokable roles, old resolution against new:
rounds losing a member: 33
distinct dropped roles: ['dev-java', 'user-workstation']
`user-workstation` in all 33 dsk rounds, `dev-java` in dsk-bluray-player,
which carries it as a meta dependency and would have aborted the same way
on main the day a round picked that role.
Neither stops running. A meta dependency resolves at role-include time,
independent of the inventory. `user-workstation` reaches its host through
the service loader, whose preload closure is computed from the filtered
whitelist and still contains it, and through dsk-base's own include_role:
dsk-firefox: include=['dsk-base', 'dsk-firefox']
user-workstation in preload closure=True
workstation service required=True
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An image bump in a provider redeployed every variant of every consumer,
including the variants that switch that provider off and therefore never
deploy the bumped image at all. The diff-derived whitelist now narrows each
affected role to the variants whose own round closure still reaches a seed,
emitted as `role#0,2` selection tokens. That closure is walked on the same
variant-merged services maps the matrix planner builds its rounds from, so the
narrowing follows a parent's variant choice across every generation of the
chain. It covers every auto-derived whitelist: the weekly update PRs,
Dependabot, and any other diff-driven run.
The narrowing never shrinks the matrix on partial information. A seed role
keeps every variant, because its own files changed. A role reached only
through a run_after edge keeps every variant too, because the round closure
does not follow that edge and a role whose hits are empty is therefore
unnarrowed rather than dropped.
A pinned token naming a role the discovery query does not return now warns
instead of aborting the run. The diff-derived whitelist legitimately names
roles the lifecycle envelope filters out, and once it pins variants such a
token would abort every chunk; role names are still checked against roles/
before the run starts, so a typo is caught one layer earlier.
The round's variant merge moves out of the deploy inventory package into
utils/roles/applications/variants.py. The CI selection has to build the same
maps, and importing the deploy package for them pulls in a module that reads
INFINITO_SRC_DIR at import time, which the runner host does not set.
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A round deploys a provider once, so the role that pulls it in is the only place that can say how lean it has to be. A variant entry may now carry any application config topic under a service it depends on: a mapping deep-merges, so naming one key changes that key alone, and null empties the topic. Empty was the case that needed a marker of its own, because merging an empty mapping is a no-op and would leave exactly the services the round was trying to shed.
The topic vocabulary and the merge semantics live in utils.roles.applications.topics, which is also where resources.py now gets them rather than spelling the same null-or-merge out a second time. Collecting who demands what stays in the inventory tree, refuses two roles demanding different values for one provider in the same round, and skips a role's own entity entry so the existing services.<own>.users declarations are not read as overrides.
The CI set-cover learns the same fact. Its greedy cover retires a role's variant-0 row when an earlier row of another role embeds it, on the stated premise that embedding pulls the provider's variant 0. A variant that dictates that provider's config breaks the premise from the other side: whatever ran, it was not the provider as the provider declares it. Such a pair now covers nothing, so the retired row keeps its job, its artefact and its verdict.
Measured on the current tree: 20 override pairs, 41 covered rows before and after, so nothing is revoked today. The rule bites the moment an override lands in a row that covers.
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One boolean answered five unrelated questions: whether the pull-through cache stack runs, whether image pulls take the GHCR mirror, whether the docker data root may be wiped, plus runtime naming and inventory resolution. The workspace is the environment where those answers diverge — it simulates a developer machine on a real runner — so getting one of them meant misreporting where the suite runs and silently paying for the other four.
is_ci() and runs_on_github() stay facts about the machine. cache_stack_enabled, image_mirror_enabled and docker_root_ephemeral become decisions that default off those facts and can be declared explicitly, so an environment states what it wants. Every default reproduces the previous condition exactly, including the distinction the old mirror and wipe gates drew between a real runner and act.
73ae40585 got the cache stack by flipping the identity flag and lost the docker-root wipe with it; the workspace now declares all three capabilities instead. Pairs with 4c068d1cf, which makes the resulting stray bind sources harmless rather than fatal.
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Every script a role ships now lives under `files/<language>/`, and the unit
suite is split the same way: `tests/unit/python/` beside new sibling trees for
the other languages. `tests/lint/filesystem/test_role_files_layout.py` keeps it
that way; directories whose shape is dictated from outside carry a `.nocheck`
naming the constraint (Docker build contexts, WordPress mu-plugins, the Joomla
extension, Odoo addons, Playwright suites, the `files/test/test.sh` harness
that `test-e2e-cli` resolves generically).
This cannot be applied in halves. Moving a file and repointing what names it
are the same change: 14 references resolve only at deploy time, so the tree is
green either before or after, never between.
Those 14 were found by static resolution over every reference class, not by the
test suite -- a full `make quality-high` was green while all of them were
broken:
* 7 `src:` values built from a role variable holding a bare filename
(svc-bkp-remote-2-local, decidim, espocrm, friendica, joomla, pixelfed x2).
The variable doubles as the destination name inside the container, so the
language segment belongs at the call site, not in the variable.
* `sys-service/tasks/04_base.yml` resolved every consumer's systemd script
through `first_found(..., errors='strict')` over `files/script.{sh,py}`.
18 roles ship exactly that and have no template fallback: the play would
have died on each.
* `sys-front-inj-javascript` fell back to `<role>/files/javascript.js`; the
interface now reads `files/javascript/javascript.js`.
* `sys-front-inj-logout/templates/head_sub.j2` built the cache-busting mtime
path through `path_absolute(... 'files', ...)`.
* 4 `ansible.builtin.script:` invocations naming a bare command
(pull.py, prune.sh, set_postgres_superuser_password.sh, ganesha-serve.sh).
* `dev-python/files/shell/install.sh` pointed at a sibling role's script.
Depth-dependent paths inside the moved trees were bumped accordingly: 59
`parents[N]` computations, 12 relative climbs, and the per-role recover CLI,
whose path `cli/administration/recover/recoverers.py` still assembled from the
pre-move location.
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