- Windows gnu (MinGW) builds are self-contained: classify as libc='none'
- Pad install.sh content to 8 spaces to match production template indent
- Use replaceMarkerLine for both bash and PS1 installer injection
Rust *-unknown-linux-musl builds are statically linked with zero
runtime libc dependency. Detect this pattern in classifyGitHub and
override libc from 'musl' to 'none'. Hard-musl packages (pwsh, bun,
node) use different filename patterns and keep libc='musl'.
Add PowerShell() function to render .ps1 installers by injecting
$Env: variables and splicing install.ps1 content. Wire it into
the webid server for .ps1 extension requests.
git_url is now a standalone field that can appear alongside any source
type. For githubsource packages, it adds a git clone entry per release
in addition to the tarball and zipball. Updated aliasman, duckdns.sh,
and serviceman configs.
Three distinct fetch/classify strategies:
- github: binary assets only, no source entries
- githubsource: tarball + zipball from GitHub releases API
- gittag: git clone + tag enumeration (existing)
GitHub binary packages (caddy, jq, shellcheck, etc.) no longer get
spurious .git and source tarball entries for old releases that had
no binary uploads. Source-installable packages (aliasman, duckdns.sh,
serviceman) now use github_source in releases.conf.
Tests were using separate source/owner/repo keys but the parser expects
github_repo=owner/repo, gitea_repo=owner/repo, etc. Fixed all test
configs to match. Also answered Issue 4 (darwin-universal) for other agent.
Production has two separate flows:
1. /{pkg} (curl-pipe bootstrap) — minimal script that sets WEBI_PKG,
WEBI_HOST, WEBI_CHECKSUM and downloads+runs webi
2. /api/installers/{pkg}.sh — full installer with resolved release
and embedded install.sh
Previously handleBootstrap served the full installer. Now:
- handleBootstrap: curl-pipe bootstrap (reads curl-pipe-bootstrap.tpl.sh)
- handleInstaller: full installer (/api/installers/{pkg}.sh)
Also:
- Export render.InjectVar for use by bootstrap handler
- Add webi.sh checksum calculation (SHA-1 first 8 chars)
- Add /api/installers/ route to mux and test server
- Added TestV1ResolveJQ to verify jq resolves to binary, not git
- Changed upstream gap detection in resolve_cache_test to t.Skipf
(shellcheck/windows and xz/linux-arm64 don't have upstream builds)
- Updated ANSWERS.md with git assets investigation results
Renders package-install.tpl.sh with WEBI_* variable injection and
install.sh splicing. Bootstrap route at /{package}@{version} detects
UA, resolves best release, and returns rendered installer script.
Serves /api/releases/{pkg}@{version}.json and .tab matching the
Node.js format. Supports query params for os, arch, libc, channel,
formats, lts, limit. Handles selfhosted packages (install.sh only).
Pre-loads all cached packages on startup. Includes /api/debug for
UA detection and /api/health endpoint.
Triplet-based resolution with indexed lookup for fast matching.
Supports channel hierarchy (alpha > beta > rc > stable), LTS filtering,
variant selection, format preferences, and arch fallback via CompatArches.
All 13 unit tests and cache integration tests pass against real data
for 100+ packages.
Source type is now inferred from the primary key:
github_repo = owner/repo (was source=github + owner + repo)
git_url = https://... (was source=gittag + url)
gitea_repo = owner/repo (was source=gitea + owner + repo)
hashicorp_product = name (was source=hashicorp + product)
One-off dist sources (nodedist, zigdist, etc.) keep the explicit
source= key since they're already one-liners.
Parser still accepts the old format via the default fallback branch.
Tagless repos (only HEAD, no real version tags): rewrite HEAD version
to Node.js-compatible format (v2023.10.10-18.42.21) with full UTC
datetime.
Repos with real tags + HEAD: tag HEAD entries with "head" variant so
ExportLegacy filters them out (they shouldn't appear in legacy cache).
Hardcode the old 10.12, 10.13, 11.8, 12.3 releases from EnterpriseDB
that predate the bnnanet/postgresql-releases GitHub repo. Both postgres
and psql now match the live cache exactly.
Early PowerShell releases (pre-6.1) used Windows-version-specific
filenames (win10-win2016, win81-win2012r2) that the legacy cache
can't resolve. Tag them as variants so they're filtered from legacy
export but preserved for future Go resolver use.
The regex captured the beta/preview number but not the keyword itself,
so "3.0.0-preview" collapsed to "3.0.0". Also deduplicate by version
since the downloads page has duplicate links with different URL formats
(e.g. iTerm2-3_5_1beta1.zip and iTerm2-3_5_1_beta1.zip).
Packages with alias_of in releases.conf (e.g. dashd → dashcore,
golang → go) now get symlinked cache files so they resolve to the
same JSON as their target. 13 aliases total.
Added AliasOf as a proper field in installerconf.Conf, LinkAlias
method to fsstore, and alias handling in webicached's Run loop.
GitHub's prerelease boolean is often not set for rc/beta/alpha/dev/pre
releases. Add channelFromVersion() to detect these from the version
string as a fallback. Applied to github, gitea, gittag, and hashicorp
classifiers. Hashicorp's inline checks replaced with the shared helper.
-pre maps to beta (prerelease), -preview stays preview.
The cli- prefix is a watchexec-specific monorepo artifact, not a generic
config concern. Move it to internal/releases/watchexec/versions.go
alongside other per-package normalizers (git, lf).
- postgres/psql: add asset_filter to separate assets from shared repo
(bnnanet/postgresql-releases contains postgres-*, postgresql-*, psql-*)
- watchexec: change tag_prefix to version_prefixes so old plain-tagged
releases (v1.20.6+) aren't filtered out — only strip the cli- prefix
- classify: add .minisig, b3sums, dist-manifest.json to IsMetaAsset
filter to prevent checksum/signature files from leaking into cache
- ffmpeg: add version_prefix = b to strip 'b' from tags (b6.0 → 6.0)
- legacy.go: add .gz to legacyFormats for bare gzipped binaries
- iterm2: broaden regex to handle preview/beta variants, skip empty
versions
Match count: 75/106
Node.js pads Go versions like "1.10" to "1.10.0". Match this behavior
in the classifier and comparecache version normalizer. Also filter
-arm6. malformed arch and .src. source tarballs from comparison noise.
Match count: 73/106
- Add .app.zip to legacyFormats so macOS fish builds export correctly
- Exclude bundledpcre, fish-static, OpenBeta from fish/releases.conf
- Add fish Linux binaries to comparecache noise (Go improvement)
Match count: 72/106
Git for Windows uses tags like v2.53.0.windows.1. Node.js strips
".windows.1" and replaces ".windows.N" (N>1) with ".N".
Add NormalizeVersions to the git package and wire it into the classify
pipeline. Also add version normalization to comparecache so the
comparison uses canonical versions for both caches.
Remaining git diffs: data freshness (.windows.2 releases Go hasn't
fetched) and RC versions in Go that live doesn't have.
- Hugo: exclude Linux-64bit legacy filename alias
- Hugo-extended: exclude Linux-64bit legacy filename alias
- Gitea: exclude -src- and -docs- tarballs
- Pathman: exclude armv8 legacy alias
- UUID v7: exclude exotic architectures (thumb, armeb, loong, gnux32, risc)
- comparecache: filter bare executables and docs tarballs as noise,
apply noise filter to both live and Go sides
- legacy.go: add .tar.bz2 to legacyFormats
Match count: 69/106 (up from 58)
Move all source-specific classifiers, variant tagging, config filtering,
and readAllRaw out of cmd/webicached into internal/classifypkg. The new
Package() function runs the full classify pipeline: source dispatch →
tag variants → apply config.
webicached now only handles fetching raw data and writing to fsstore.
The classification logic is reusable by comparecache and future tools.
- gittag classifier: use "{repo}-{tag}" filenames (matching Node.js),
strip "v" prefix from version, synthesize date-based version for
tagless repos (HEAD of master/main)
- GitHub source-only: use "git" format (no dot) and "{repo}-{tag}"
filename for clone assets
- Legacy export: add "git" to recognized formats so gittag packages
appear in the legacy cache
- Derives repo name from the git URL in releases.conf
vim-commentary now matches. vim-zig matches on format but has newer
data (expected — Go fetched more recently than Node.js).
Moved isMetaAsset from cmd/webicached to classify.IsMetaAsset so
both webicached and comparecache use the same logic. Removed
duplicated isMetaFile from comparecache. The comparecache
isLiveNoise now delegates to classify.IsMetaAsset and adds
live-specific filters (.deb, .rpm, -src-).
The macOS .pkg is a pkgutil installer, not a plain archive.
Tagged as installer so it's excluded from legacy export but
available for Go's native installer support.
shellcheck has no Windows builds, xz has no arm64 builds — these are
real upstream gaps that the test suite now surfaces as failures rather
than silently excluding. 891 pass, 2 known upstream gaps.
The resolver now handles:
- ANYOS assets match any query OS
- posix_2017/posix_2024 assets match any non-Windows OS
- ANYARCH assets match any query architecture (ranked below specific)
14 tests covering: exact match, version constraints, arch fallback
(Rosetta 2, Windows ARM64, micro-arch), format preference, libc
filtering, base-over-variant preference, POSIX/ANYOS/ANYARCH fallback,
Survey catalog, and no-match.
- yq: move man_page_only from general isMetaAsset to yq-specific tagger
- node: restore .exe as stored asset with "bare-exe" variant (installable
by Go, excluded from legacy)
- ollama: rename Ollama-darwin.zip variant from "installer" to "app"
(.app bundle is installable by Go, just not by legacy Node.js)
The distinction: general classification/filter (isMetaAsset) handles
truly non-installable files. Installer-specific taggers handle assets
that are installable but need variant tagging. Legacy filter strips
variants and unsupported formats for Node.js compat.
asset_filter is a substring that asset filenames must contain. Used when
multiple packages share a GitHub release (kubectx/kubens both come from
ahmetb/kubectx). Added as a first-class Conf field and applied in
webicached's applyConfig.
MinGit-busybox is a stripped-down MinGit using busybox instead of MSYS2.
pdbs-for-git-* filenames weren't caught by the existing "-pdb" check.
Both are now tagged as variants and excluded from legacy export.
fish-{version}.tar.xz is an uploaded source tarball with no OS/arch in
the filename. GitHub API doesn't distinguish it from binaries. Tag assets
with no OS and no arch as "source" variant so they're filtered from
legacy export. The linux .tar.xz binaries classify correctly and are
kept — Node.js just doesn't have them yet.
Baseline builds (-baseline suffix) are plain x86_64 and match what Node.js
serves. Strip -baseline from Filename (keep in Download URL) so legacy
export sees a clean name. Non-baseline builds get Arch: x86_64_v3 and
Variants: ["v3"], excluding them from legacy output.
