Review round 2 (batch 2 + close-out): 02/07/09/10/11/14/15/16/inventory facts corrected at file:line (EDITS.md), undocumented decisions as notes (R-1265), rulings left for the operator (R-1266); register 190 -> 207 (R-1251..R-1267 opened: R-1251 P1 cut drive-app restore put back over newer data, R-1252 P2 rejected backup block deletes second-drive copies - reproduced on 9202); STATUS D43-D45; CONTEXT; audit README
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@@ -65,6 +65,13 @@ build is added to both in the same commit.
### 1.1 The button
> *Dated note 2026-10-24 (review round 2): §1 is the 2026-09 MEASUREMENT before the arc. `UpdateStack` no longer exists
> (deleted in v0.237.0, controller `REUSE.md`); the button calls `StartGuardedUpdate` — backup precondition, safety
> dump, pin journal, undo copy, health wait, undo (`internal/api/router.go:794`; `internal/stacks/update.go`). The line
> numbers below are the measurement's; e.g. `copyTemplates` is now `sync.go:436`, `copyIfChanged` `:700`, the `15m`
> default `config.go:399`, `RestartStack` `manager.go:1454` (it now runs `up -d --force-recreate` and errors when no
> container restarted, R-1026).*
`Manager.UpdateStack` (`felhom-controller/controller/internal/stacks/manager.go:1199`) is two compose
commands and nothing else:
@@ -267,7 +274,8 @@ builds them (`audits/update-rulings-2026-09-23/`).
next night. **Why:** the update then leans on the freshest copy the box ever has, and there is no
second window for anyone to set or misread. **Replaces:** §3b Q1's recommendation of a fixed
02:30–05:00. *For the builder:* `stacks.update_window` (`config.go` L195, default `03:00-05:00`)
exists and **no Go code reads it** — it appears only in `config.go` (field + default),
exists and **no Go code reads it** *(dated note 2026-10-24: the field is now removed — no controller source names
it; `controller/README.md` „`stacks.update_window` is removed")* — it appears only in `config.go` (field + default),
`setup/handlers.go` L482 (written into a new box's `controller.yaml`) and
`configs/controller.yaml.example`. Remove it or fold it into the chain; do not build a second
window.
@@ -424,7 +432,8 @@ R-636's louder repeated alarm.
(a) broke the second. Shipped as controller **v0.269.1** — a second release in the session, instead of
shipping (a) to the fleet with the floor.
*Note 2026-09-30 (R-740) — the cost line above is not what the code does.* „(or the automatic leg)": the
automatic leg never presses a digest-only change (`unattended.go:433–435`, skip `no_test_record`). And the
automatic leg never presses a digest-only change (`unattended.go:433–435` then, `:449-451` now — line corrected
2026-10-24 — skip `no_test_record`). And the
catalog never writes a re-test of a floating tag at a new digest (the writer refuses a step that moves no
image), so a same-name upstream fix reaches no box by either route today. Measured, with the options, in
R-740; the decision is the operator's (STATUS 2026-09-30). This decision's ruling — the sync never moves
@@ -1981,7 +1990,7 @@ moves a stack dir.
| writer | pin source |
|---|---|
| the deploy path (`runComposeDeploy`) | the template just deployed from |
| **`UpdateStack`** | the catalog's current template, written **BEFORE** the pull |
| **`UpdateStack`** | the catalog's current template, written **BEFORE** the pull — *as built: `UpdateStack` was deleted in v0.237.0; the guarded update writes the pin (`advancePinTo`, the `pinning` phase before `pulling`), and two more paths move a pin BACK — `pinBack` and the undo's `restoreDefinition` (`internal/stacks/update.go`, `undo.go`; noted 2026-10-24)* |
| the restore (`stackAdapter.RecreateStackDefinitionFromUnit`) | the recovery unit's captured compose — **this closes R-441** |
| `Manager.AdoptPins` | the observation, once, and only when complete AND matching |
@@ -2047,7 +2056,7 @@ earlier feature is the failure mode to look for whenever a file changes meaning.
| **3** | **The compose file becomes DERIVED** — the pin in `app.yaml` wins; the syncer renders instead of copying. | **SHIPPED, controller v0.235.0 (2026-09-06)** — operator ruling §3.4 |
| **4** | **A guarded update** — verified-backup precondition, abort-on-failure, and the truth at the moment of action rather than 5m16s later (R-443). | **SHIPPED + PROVEN LIVE, controller v0.237.0 (job) + v0.238.0 (page) + v0.238.1 (2026-09-13); any backup tier since v0.239.0 (§3 decision 8)** — §6.1 |
| **5** | **An upgrade test that runs again** — a harness that upgrades a real app with real data in it and asks the app for the data back. | **SHIPPED, `app-catalog/scripts/upgrade-test.py` (2026-09-06)** — 7 edges, 3 apps; see §4.1 and §10 |
| **6** | **Automatic updates** — ~~within a major, a human across one~~ **the catalog's tested steps, climbed one at a time, as a leg of the backup chain, undone by the box on failure** (§3 decisions 11–17); **an engine change gets its own edge.** | OPEN — R-450; rulings 2026-09-23; build order §6.4 |
| **6** | **Automatic updates** — ~~within a major, a human across one~~ **the catalog's tested steps, climbed one at a time, as a leg of the backup chain, undone by the box on failure** (§3 decisions 11–17); **an engine change gets its own edge.** | ~~OPEN — R-450~~ **BUILT** — the leg in `internal/stacks/unattended.go`, wired into the off-site job; R-450 CLOSED 2026-10-05 (capability map B11) *(noted 2026-10-24, review round 2)* |
| **7** | **A fleet sweep pipeline** — the operator can see, and move, how far behind every box is. | OPEN — R-451; ruled 2026-09-23 (decision 18), built later |
### 6.1 Slice 4 as SHIPPED (controller v0.237.0 + v0.238.0, 2026-09-13)
@@ -2062,12 +2071,13 @@ closed by construction: nothing reports an update complete on the compose exit c
| # | phase | what happens | on failure |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | refusals (409, before the intent is recorded) | held (R-439), busy (backup/restore/app-data op/quiesce), migration, already updating, deploying, memory (the deploy's `memoryVerdict`, releasing the app's own request), disk (**fixed 2 GB floor** — image size unknown without a registry), **no copy on ANY tier and no backup can be taken now** (since v0.239.0; before it, no restorable Tier-2 copy) | nothing moves, nothing is recorded |
| 1 | `checking` | walks Tier 2 → Tier 1 → Tier 3 for the first copy younger than `update.backup_max_age` (v0.239.0) | nothing moves |
| 1 | `checking` | walks Tier 2 → Tier 1 → Tier 3 for the first copy younger than `update.backup_max_age` (v0.239.0) — *an app whose data lives in bind-mounted files walks second drive → OFF-SITE → own unit (decision 9, R-479, v0.241.0; `internal/backup/update_guard.go` `updateTierOrderBindData`; noted 2026-10-24)* | nothing moves |
| 2 | `backing-up` — only when no tier holds a fresh copy | `RunAppBackupNow`: this app's DB dump → volume dump → unit capture (marked proven current) → Tier-2 copy, whose failure is a WARN since v0.239.0 | refused with the backup's own error; nothing moves |
| 3 | `safety-dump` | `WriteUpdateSafetyDump` (R-361's undo copy) — **before the pin moves** | refused; nothing moves |
| 4 | `pinning` | the previous definition is copied aside and journaled, then the pin advances | pin put back |
| 5 | `pulling` | `compose pull` | **pin and definition PUT BACK** — nothing ran (Scenario E) |
| 5a | `copying` **(v0.263.0)** | `compose stop`, then each NAMED volume `cp -a` into `<volume>.pre-update-<stamp>` by a helper that writes a finished-marker last (bind folders never) | copies removed, **pin put back, the old version started again** — nothing new ran |
| 5b | `converting` **(v0.273.0, row added 2026-10-24)** | only on a step whose ladder entry carries `engine_conversion`: the box converts the PostgreSQL major (dump from the old engine, load into the new, check) — `internal/stacks/pgconvert.go` | the undo puts the old engine's data back |
| 6 | `starting` | `compose up -d --remove-orphans` | **UNDO** (below), HOLD only if the undo fails |
| 7 | `verifying` | the `.felhom.yml` health check through the existing probe **when it resolves to a container**, else 60 s of every container running and none restarting; bounded by `update.health_timeout` | **UNDO** (below), HOLD only if the undo fails. Before v0.263.0: stop + HOLD, the pin stays (Scenario F) |
| 7a | `undoing` **(v0.263.0)** | every copy validated (marker) BEFORE anything is poured back; volumes emptied and refilled; definition, pin and the pinned version's `.felhom.yml` record put back from the job's own copies; `up`; health with the OLD version's probe | HOLD, the sentence prefixed *„A frissítés nem sikerült, és az automatikus visszaállítás sem."* + the data state (`untouched` / `half` / `not_started`); copies kept |
@@ -2116,7 +2126,7 @@ the harness has proven it, is slice 6's.
> copy taken before the pin moved**, so the old version meets pre-migration data. Spiked by hand on
> 9202 the same day — §6.1a.
**Not gated here:** a multi-major jump (R-40). It fails health and is held honestly; stepping is slice 6.
**Not gated here:** a multi-major jump (R-40). It fails health and is held honestly; stepping is slice 6. *(Noted 2026-10-24: stepping is built — the ladder, one tested step per press, decision 14.)*
### 6.1a The undo (decision 15) — SPIKED BY HAND, then BUILT: controller v0.263.2 (2026-09-23)
@@ -2130,7 +2140,8 @@ only the live box could show, fixed the same day:** the undo's probe was never a
current probe held the app `unhealthy` (v0.263.1), and the "old" `.felhom.yml` taken at update time
was already the new one, because `.felhom.yml` flows in on every catalog sync (v0.263.2: the pinned
version's file is now recorded in `applied-meta/` whenever a version is pinned). **Residual (R-646):**
an app pinned before v0.263.2 has no such record until its next pin. **Two more, found by the chaos hour of
an app pinned before v0.263.2 has no such record until its next pin. *(Closed since: `BackfillAppliedMeta` records it at
start for every app CURRENT with the catalog, and names the rest — `internal/stacks/undo.go:646-652`; noted 2026-10-24.)* **Two more, found by the chaos hour of
2026-09-23 night (`audits/DRILL-night-2026-09-23.md` Part D):** the undo finds an app's volumes by their compose
label, and a restore recreates them WITHOUT it — so after any restore the undo copies nothing (R-658, P1); and a
held file-leg app is pointed at a restore that refuses a database-only copy, with no route left on a box without
@@ -2270,7 +2281,7 @@ breaks.
---
### 6.2 Slice 6, as it will be built (OPEN — R-450; ruled 2026-09-23, decisions 11–17)
### 6.2 Slice 6, as it will be built (~~OPEN — R-450~~ BUILT, R-450 closed 2026-10-05 — noted 2026-10-24; ruled 2026-09-23, decisions 11–17)
**The shape the rulings fix. The build order and costs are §6.4.** Rewritten 2026-09-23; the
earlier "as it would be built" draft keyed on the window of Q1's recommendation and on
@@ -2341,7 +2352,7 @@ retried. A working caller in this exact shape exists as evidence, not product:
**The per-box switch key is `app_update.unattended`**, default **true** (decision 12).
⚠ **NOT `auto_update` — that name is TAKEN, and by the very thing this must not collide with.**
`self_update.auto_update` / `self_update.auto_update_time` (`config/config.go` L280-281, default
`self_update.auto_update` / `self_update.auto_update_time` (`config/config.go` L280-281 then, L278-279 now; default
**04:30** at L422) are the CONTROLLER's own update. Two settings with that name, one meaning the
controller and one meaning apps, is the kind of collision that is only discovered by an operator who
turned off the wrong one. The app-scoped key is `app_update.*`. **And `stacks.update_window` is
@@ -2371,12 +2382,12 @@ what the part can do to a household's data if it is wrong, not how likely that i
| # | part | rulings / rows | cost | depends on | risk to customer data |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| **1** | **SHIPPED — controller v0.263.2, proven live on 9202 2026-09-23** (`audits/undo-live-2026-09-23/`). **The undo.** Keep the pre-update copies (compose, applied, pin, **old `.felhom.yml`**) until the undo is over; in `failAndHold`: pin back → DB up alone → **validate the copy's completion marker** → **empty-then-load in one transaction** (PostgreSQL: the dump's schemas dropped and recreated inside the load's transaction; MariaDB: every table dropped first, and a failed load HOLDS with a sentence saying the database is in neither state) → full start → **health with the OLD probe** → `undone`, else HOLD. A volume tar at safety-dump time for apps with no database server. Household page + event; the mail rides part 2. | 15; the audit's 8-point list | **4** | — | **HIGH by nature** — it writes the customer's database. Bounded: it only ever loads the copy taken seconds before, validated first, atomically on PostgreSQL; every failure mode ends in today's hold. **It also makes the manual button safer on its own**, which is why it goes first. |
| **1** | **SHIPPED — controller v0.263.2, proven live on 9202 2026-09-23** (`audits/undo-live-2026-09-23/`). **The undo.** Keep the pre-update copies (compose, applied, pin, **old `.felhom.yml`**) until the undo is over; in `failAndHold` *(as SHIPPED — noted 2026-10-24: the copy is the FOLDER copy decision 19 chose: every named volume `cp -a` into a sibling volume with a finished-marker, put back on failure; no database load — `internal/stacks/undo.go:26-36`; the text that follows is the design before the bake-off)*: pin back → DB up alone → **validate the copy's completion marker** → **empty-then-load in one transaction** (PostgreSQL: the dump's schemas dropped and recreated inside the load's transaction; MariaDB: every table dropped first, and a failed load HOLDS with a sentence saying the database is in neither state) → full start → **health with the OLD probe** → `undone`, else HOLD. A volume tar at safety-dump time for apps with no database server. Household page + event; the mail rides part 2. | 15; the audit's 8-point list | **4** | — | **HIGH by nature** — it writes the customer's database. Bounded: it only ever loads the copy taken seconds before, validated first, atomically on PostgreSQL; every failure mode ends in today's hold. **It also makes the manual button safer on its own**, which is why it goes first. |
| **2** | **SHIPPED — controller v0.264.0 + hub v0.120.0, proven live on 9202 and 9201 2026-09-23** (`audits/undo-fleet-2026-09-23/`). **The update sentences in the household's language** (R-606) and a mail when an automatic update is undone or held: events `app_update_undone` (warning) and `app_update_held` (error), one per app per outcome, on by default, mailed in the household's language with the app named in the subject; per-app cooldown on both legs. Leftovers: R-647. | R-606, 15 | **1** | — | none |
| **3** | **SHIPPED — controller v0.264.0, proven live on 9202 2026-09-23.** **A disabled notifier says so** (R-620), so the mail of part 2 can be measured on a scratch box at all. | R-620 | **0.5** | — | none |
| **4** | **SHIPPED — catalog `6db08a5`, night 2026-09-23** (`audits/DRILL-night-2026-09-23.md`): `update_ladder:` in `.felhom.yml`, one JSON entry per line (spiked on controller v0.266.0 and v0.267.0 first — the controller ignores the key); `check-test-record.py` (static, CI) + `check-test-record-move.py` (history + the registry for moved refs only, decision 23); the only writer `upgrade-test.py --write-ladder`; the 21 moves of 2026-09-22 backfilled from their records (21 proven). Not built: `steps/<to>.yml` (part 5 needs it once an app has two steps); `CompareImageRefs` did NOT move to the gate — the gate asks for a proven test instead, which is decision 13's own test. **The test record + the catalog gate + the memory check.** The harness writes the ladder entry (below) from its verdict record, including the memory watch's peak and marks; the gate refuses an image move with no entry, an entry with a `failed` verdict, or one with no memory watch; `CompareImageRefs`' rule moves here as the push-time safety net. **Backfill:** one entry per current pin — the 21 proven moves from their records, every other pin `needs_person: "never tested"`, which is honest and keeps them manual. A version move re-checks `mem_limit` against the watch's peak (the RomM follow-up: gate, not checklist, because the watch now produces the number). | 13, R-635 follow-up | **2.5** | the memory watch (shipped 2026-09-23) | none on a box — catalog-side only |
| **5** | **SHIPPED — controller v0.268.0 (`206b035`) + catalog `5ed599c`, proven live on 9202 2026-09-24** (`audits/ladder-2026-09-24/partD/`): romm 5.3.0/11.4 → 5.3.1/11.4 (its app step, from `steps/90dd9d68258286ef.yml`) → 5.3.1/11.8 (the engine step; `mariadb-upgrade` ran) in two presses, the seeded account read back after each, the page's „Hátralévő frissítési lépések" 2 → 1 → none. Step files: `templates/<app>/steps/<StepKey(to)>.yml` (sha256 of `to` as canonical JSON, 16 hex; `stacks.StepKey` = `ladder.step_key`), refused absent or wrong by `check-test-record.py` rule 4, written by `--write-ladder` when a step is superseded, 8 backfilled from the NEWEST commit naming each step's images (romm's from `f4eb94f`, not the OOM-looping `15f9ebf`). The box reads them from its `--depth 1` clone (the whole tree is there — measured). One press = one step; a missing step file refuses before anything moves; an installed version matching no entry jumps, logged by name (measured live: vikunja 2.5.0). Limitation: a step has no `.felhom.yml` of its own (R-664). **The ladder on the box.** Read `update_ladder:` from the clone, find the installed step, apply ONE step with its OWN definition (`steps/<to>.yml`, the last step the current template), repeat next night; a failed step stops the ladder for that app. `CatalogOrder` compares refs with the digest stripped (see part 7). | 14 | **2.5** | 1, 4 | medium — each step is the guarded update + undo; the new risk is rendering the wrong step's definition, pinned by a test per step shape |
| **6** | **BOTH HALVES SHIPPED. BOX HALF — controller v0.269.0 + v0.269.1, proven live on 9202 2026-09-24** (`audits/night-2026-09-24/B/`): the compose that runs pins `tag@sha256` from the ladder entry that tested those refs; pins and records stay digest-free; the badge reads behind for a newer TESTED digest; **an installed app keeps its digest until a guarded Update moves it** (v0.269.0 let the sync move it — found live, fixed in v0.269.1, `CarryDigests`); Compose accepts the form for all 25 ladder apps. **CATALOG HALF SHIPPED — night 2026-09-23:** every ladder entry carries the digest per `to` ref (`scripts/image_digest.py`, stdlib; equals Docker's `RepoDigests` on a box), and the move gate refuses a digest the registry no longer serves. **The box half (compare, render `name:tag@sha256`) is not built.** **Digests.** The catalog records `sha256` per pin at push time (`check-image-resolvable.py` already resolves it); the box compares it for the badge and renders `name:tag@sha256:…` when present. **Measured 2026-09-23 on 9202:** Docker and Compose both pull and run `redis:7-alpine@sha256:858f…`, and refuse a digest that does not exist (`audits/update-rulings-2026-09-23/70-…`). **Build trap, read from source:** `splitImageRef` returns "unorderable" for ANY ref containing `@` (`updateorder.go:134`), so the digest must be split off before ordering or every digest-pinned app reads Unknown. A digest gone upstream fails the PULL — Scenario E, pin back, nothing ran. | 17, R-446 | **2** | 4 (the entry carries the digest) | low |
| **5** | **SHIPPED — controller v0.268.0 (`206b035`) + catalog `5ed599c`, proven live on 9202 2026-09-24** (`audits/ladder-2026-09-24/partD/`): romm 5.3.0/11.4 → 5.3.1/11.4 (its app step, from `steps/90dd9d68258286ef.yml`) → 5.3.1/11.8 (the engine step; `mariadb-upgrade` ran) in two presses, the seeded account read back after each, the page's „Hátralévő frissítési lépések" 2 → 1 → none. Step files: `templates/<app>/steps/<StepKey(to)>.yml` (sha256 of `to` as canonical JSON, 16 hex; `stacks.StepKey` = `ladder.step_key`), refused absent or wrong by `check-test-record.py` rule 4, written by `--write-ladder` when a step is superseded, 8 backfilled from the NEWEST commit naming each step's images (romm's from `f4eb94f`, not the OOM-looping `15f9ebf`). The box reads them from its `--depth 1` clone (the whole tree is there — measured). One press = one step; a missing step file refuses before anything moves; an installed version matching no entry jumps, logged by name (measured live: vikunja 2.5.0). Limitation: a step has no `.felhom.yml` of its own (R-664). *(Closed since: a step's own `steps/<key>.felhom.yml` is read when present — `ladder.go:127-132`, v0.269.0; noted 2026-10-24.)* **The ladder on the box.** Read `update_ladder:` from the clone, find the installed step, apply ONE step with its OWN definition (`steps/<to>.yml`, the last step the current template), repeat next night; a failed step stops the ladder for that app. `CatalogOrder` compares refs with the digest stripped (see part 7). | 14 | **2.5** | 1, 4 | medium — each step is the guarded update + undo; the new risk is rendering the wrong step's definition, pinned by a test per step shape |
| **6** | **BOTH HALVES SHIPPED. BOX HALF — controller v0.269.0 + v0.269.1, proven live on 9202 2026-09-24** (`audits/night-2026-09-24/B/`): the compose that runs pins `tag@sha256` from the ladder entry that tested those refs; pins and records stay digest-free; the badge reads behind for a newer TESTED digest; **an installed app keeps its digest until a guarded Update moves it** (v0.269.0 let the sync move it — found live, fixed in v0.269.1, `CarryDigests`); Compose accepts the form for all 25 ladder apps. **CATALOG HALF SHIPPED — night 2026-09-23:** every ladder entry carries the digest per `to` ref (`scripts/image_digest.py`, stdlib; equals Docker's `RepoDigests` on a box), and the move gate refuses a digest the registry no longer serves. ~~**The box half (compare, render `name:tag@sha256`) is not built.**~~ *Built — the box renders the tested digest, carries it on sync, and the badge reads the tested digest (`internal/stacks/digest.go:15-24`, `updateorder.go`; noted 2026-10-24).* **Digests.** The catalog records `sha256` per pin at push time (`check-image-resolvable.py` already resolves it); the box compares it for the badge and renders `name:tag@sha256:…` when present. **Measured 2026-09-23 on 9202:** Docker and Compose both pull and run `redis:7-alpine@sha256:858f…`, and refuse a digest that does not exist (`audits/update-rulings-2026-09-23/70-…`). **Build trap, read from source:** `splitImageRef` returns "unorderable" for ANY ref containing `@` (`updateorder.go:134`), so the digest must be split off before ordering or every digest-pinned app reads Unknown. A digest gone upstream fails the PULL — Scenario E, pin back, nothing ran. | 17, R-446 | **2** | 4 (the entry carries the digest) | low |
| **7** | **SHIPPED — controller v0.271.0 (`9cf13a3`), proven on 9202 over four simulated nights 2026-09-24/25 and watched through the demo boxes' first real automatic night (`audits/DRILL-night-2026-09-25.md`).** Decisions 31–33 taken unattended. Gaps a scratch box cannot close: R-687; no resume after a restart: R-686. *(Before:)* **SPIKED 2026-09-24 (night, Part C) — the measured build brief is §6.4.2 below.** **The update leg in the chain + the automatic caller + the switch.** A leg that starts when the off-site leg has ENDED (on every exit path, skips included), one app at a time, one step per press, `app_update.unattended` default ON (decision 12), `stacks.update_window` removed, reads `UpdateRefusal.Reason`, remembers a failed step so it never re-presses it, and the full-system backup's gate waits for it until W+5h (decision 20). | 11, 12, 14, 15, 20 | **3** | 1, 2, 5 | medium — the only part that acts with nobody watching; everything above is what makes it safe |
| **8** | **SHIPPED — controller v0.265.0 + hub v0.121.0, proven live on 9202 2026-09-23** (`audits/cleanup-2026-09-23/`; a kernel `oom_kill` counter, not the sticky flag — `08` §6.2). **R-636** — the same OOM key re-firing escalates instead of staying one `warning` for six hours. | R-636 | **1** | — | none |
| **9** | **SHIPPED — controller v0.265.0, proven live on 9202 2026-09-23** (badge „Megállítva — visszaállítás szükséges" / "Stopped — restore needed", no Update button, 409 `held` unchanged). **R-625** — a held app stops offering an Update it will refuse. With the undo, holds become rarer; the lie on the page does not go away by itself. | R-625 | **0.5** | 1 | none |
@@ -2459,7 +2470,7 @@ During the db-dump leg every press was refused `busy` (transient, retried next p
update's own finish should refresh them.
- **An Update pressed on an app already at the head runs the whole guarded update** — backup, pull,
restart, `done` — with no refusal (R-679: navidrome restarted four times for nothing). The leg never
presses an app whose pin equals the head; the preflight should refuse with reason `current`.
presses an app whose pin equals the head; the preflight should refuse with reason `current` (as built the reason key is `already_current`, `update.go:432` — noted 2026-10-24).
- **The product does not remember a failed step.** After vikunja's undo the badge still offers the
same step; only the caller's memory kept it from a re-press. Decision 15 needs it on the box: the
failed `to` is recorded per app and the leg skips it until the catalog's ladder changes.
@@ -2541,6 +2552,24 @@ and E are the ones that unblock a decision; leg A is the one that takes the time
harness on DooPlex for the image-side ones.
### 6.4.x Decisions in code no section records [DESIGN — undocumented, found 2026-10-24, review round 2 — the operator confirms them through one register row]
Read at `file:line` on controller `main` (`321df1f`) by the main session:
- **`build.sh --push` also refuses a DIRTY tree, a HEAD that is not `origin/main`, and a directory that is not a git
checkout** — `controller/build.sh:144-166`. §0 names only the tag-exists and unreachable-registry refusals.
- **The leg retries a passing refusal ONCE in the same night** (`busy`, `updating`, `deploying`, `migrating`,
`self_updating`), after `RetryWait` — not „the next pass/night" (`internal/stacks/unattended.go:65-66`, the pass loop).
- **The leg skips an app the household stopped** (`stopped_by_household`, R-721): an update would start it
(`unattended.go:416-418`).
- **A manual run of the chain** (R-705, the debug action) gives the leg a deadline of its start + the leg's normal
length (`backupwindow.UpdateLegLengthMin`), not W+5h (`unattended.go:232-238`).
- **Two preflight refusals are plain skips to the leg:** `already_current` and `engine_no_test`
(`internal/stacks/update.go:432,454`).
- **The render table (§5.4) has one more row:** when the catalog template's images cannot be read, the syncer leaves
the app's compose file alone for that cycle (`internal/sync/sync.go:622-627`); and the box's R-971 allow-list runs
before ANY compose write (`cmd/controller/main.go:421`, `SetAdmitFn`).
## 6.5 The drill catalog and the image store — the standing method for update drills
**Why this section exists.** On 2026-09-21 an afternoon session put a deliberately broken image into
@@ -2629,7 +2658,9 @@ customer box has credentials for it. The store listens on the guest's loopback o
### 7.1 The record (slice 1)
`Manager.recordInstalledImages` (`felhom-controller/controller/internal/stacks/installed.go`) runs
after a successful compose up from `StartStack`, `RestartStack`, `UpdateStack` and `runComposeDeploy`,
after a successful compose up from `StartStack`, `RestartStack`, `UpdateStack` and `runComposeDeploy`
*(as built — noted 2026-10-24: `UpdateStack` is gone; the callers are `StartStack`, `RestartStack`, the deploy path, the
end of the guarded update and the end of the undo — `manager.go`, `deploy.go`, `update.go`, `undo.go`)*,
and writes `app.yaml`:
```yaml
@@ -2705,7 +2736,7 @@ Version strings stay in the logs, the API and the hub.
The 8th, immich's own ghcr build, is UNMEASURED — ghcr exposes no anonymous last-modified. So on
demo-hp today four apps read „Naprakész" over a database engine image that has demonstrably moved.
Digest-level comparison needs the catalog to record the digest at push time — **R-446**, put to the
operator as §3b **Q6**, recommended YES.
operator as §3b **Q6**, recommended YES. *(Built since for every ref with a ladder entry — `updateorder.go`, `digest.go`; the limitation remains only for a ref no entry records; noted 2026-10-24.)*
2. **~~Nothing enforces `catalog_since`.~~ Enforced by the pre-push hook since 2026-09-13 (R-452, `app-catalog-felhom.eu/scripts/check-catalog-since.py`); CI's shallow clone still skips it out loud.** A commit that moves an `image:` line and forgets the date
under-reports how far behind a box is. The gates runner fetches at `--depth 1` and has no parent
commit to diff against, so the gate needs a deeper fetch — **R-452**.
@@ -2730,13 +2761,18 @@ Version strings stay in the logs, the API and the hub.
refuses without a restorable, proven Tier-2 copy, backs up first when that copy is stale, takes a
safety dump, and holds an app that does not come up. **What stays true:** it still has no automatic
rollback (deliberately, §6.1) and can still attempt a multi-major jump the app will refuse (R-40) —
that now ends HELD rather than crash-looping behind a green button.
that now ends HELD rather than crash-looping behind a green button. *(Dated note 2026-10-24: a copy on ANY tier now
satisfies the precondition (v0.239.0), the box undoes a failed update itself (decision 15, v0.263.2), and the
ladder climbs one tested step per press (decision 14) — `internal/backup/update_guard.go`, `internal/stacks/undo.go`,
`ladder.go`.)*
7. ~~**An engine major can be applied without its datadir upgrade, and nothing notices.**~~ **CLOSED
2026-09-13 for MariaDB (R-459):** every `mariadb:` sidecar carries `MARIADB_AUTO_UPGRADE=1`, and the
harness shows the conversion running on the E3/E3b edges (§3 decision 5). **What stays true:** the
PostgreSQL half (R-463) has no equivalent — the image performs no `pg_upgrade` — and the
engine-major rule (§3 precaution 3, R-469) is what keeps both engines inside their major until
Slice 4 gives the Update button a backup.
Slice 4 gives the Update button a backup. *(Dated note 2026-10-24: MariaDB is lifted — its major is its own edge; a
PostgreSQL major may pass with a two-venue proof and an `engine_conversion` mark, and the box converts it
(v0.273.0) — `app-catalog-felhom.eu/scripts/check-engine-major.py`.)*
8. ~~**Only three of 53 apps have ever had an upgrade measured.**~~ **WIDENED 2026-09-21 to 21
EDGES ACROSS 19 APPS** (`audits/DRILL-update-night-2026-09-21.md`), on scratch guest 9202
through the product's own guarded Update, against a PRIVATE DRILL CATALOG so the live catalog