diff --git a/.github/workflows/release.yml b/.github/workflows/release.yml
index 231444f..0094a6b 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release.yml
@@ -3,8 +3,11 @@
# program linked on a newer one does not start on an older one), attach
# them to the GitHub release, and add them to the apt and dnf repositories
# on the gh-pages branch (GitHub Pages serves them). Unsigned: step 5 of
-# the unit (the release key, Q-4) signs the manifest and the indexes, and
-# step 6 adds the macOS and Windows jobs. The release holds no key today.
+# the unit (the release key, Q-4) signs the manifest and the indexes. The
+# macOS job builds the .dmg UNSIGNED (no Developer ID, no notarization:
+# step 5); the Windows job is unit P11c. The release holds no key today.
+# To see the artifacts without a tag: Actions > release > Run workflow,
+# pick the branch; each job uploads its files as a run artifact.
name: release
on:
@@ -75,3 +78,46 @@ jobs:
git add -A
git commit -m "wanderbooks $v"
git push origin HEAD:gh-pages
+ - name: Keep them with the run (a dispatch has no release)
+ uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
+ with:
+ name: linux-packages
+ path: target/packages/${{ steps.version.outputs.version }}/
+
+ macos:
+ # UNSIGNED: a .dmg that Gatekeeper refuses until step 5 signs and
+ # notarizes it. Apple silicon (macos-latest); an Intel build is not
+ # made yet.
+ runs-on: macos-latest
+ env:
+ CARGO_INCREMENTAL: "0"
+ steps:
+ - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+ - uses: jdx/mise-action@v2
+ with:
+ install_args: "rust just cargo:cargo-packager"
+ - name: The tag is the program's version
+ id: version
+ run: |
+ own=$(sed -n 's/^version = "\(.*\)"/\1/p' crates/ledger-cli/Cargo.toml | head -n1)
+ tag="${GITHUB_REF_NAME#v}"
+ if [ "${GITHUB_REF_TYPE}" = tag ] && [ "$tag" != "$own" ]; then
+ echo "tag $GITHUB_REF_NAME is not version $own" >&2
+ exit 1
+ fi
+ echo "version=$own" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+ - name: Build the unsigned .dmg
+ run: just package-macos ${{ steps.version.outputs.version }}
+ - name: Attach it to the release
+ if: github.ref_type == 'tag'
+ env:
+ GH_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }}
+ run: |
+ v=${{ steps.version.outputs.version }}
+ gh release view "$GITHUB_REF_NAME" >/dev/null 2>&1 || gh release create "$GITHUB_REF_NAME" --title "$GITHUB_REF_NAME" --notes "wanderbooks $v"
+ gh release upload "$GITHUB_REF_NAME" --clobber target/packages/$v/*.dmg
+ - name: Keep it with the run (a dispatch has no release)
+ uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
+ with:
+ name: macos-dmg-unsigned
+ path: target/packages/${{ steps.version.outputs.version }}/*.dmg
diff --git a/deploy/packaging/Info.plist b/deploy/packaging/Info.plist
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9b274fd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/deploy/packaging/Info.plist
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+
+
+
+
+
+ LSMultipleInstancesProhibited
+
+ NSSupportsAutomaticGraphicsSwitching
+
+
+
diff --git a/deploy/packaging/build-macos.sh b/deploy/packaging/build-macos.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..f9e809f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/deploy/packaging/build-macos.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# The macOS bundle (P11a step 6), UNSIGNED, from the release program
+# already built at target/release/wanderbooks (`cargo build --release -p
+# ledger-cli`). Run on a Mac from the repository root:
+#
+# build-macos.sh [VERSION]
+#
+# Puts Wanderbooks_VERSION_.dmg into target/packages/VERSION/. It
+# is not signed or notarized (step 5): Gatekeeper refuses it on a Mac
+# that downloaded it, and the owner opens it with right-click > Open.
+# Portable shell: macOS has BSD sed and no GNU mktemp options.
+set -euo pipefail
+own=$(sed -n 's/^version = "\(.*\)"/\1/p' crates/ledger-cli/Cargo.toml | head -n1)
+version=${1:-$own}
+out="target/packages/$version"
+program=${WB_PROGRAM:-target/release/wanderbooks}
+test -x "$program" || { echo "build the release program first: cargo build --release -p ledger-cli" >&2; exit 1; }
+rm -rf "$out"; mkdir -p "$out"
+stage="target/packages/.stage-$version"
+rm -rf "$stage"; mkdir -p "$stage"
+cp "$program" "$stage/wanderbooks"
+config="$stage/packager.toml"
+# cargo-packager reads paths relative to the config file, which is in the
+# stage folder here, so they are made absolute.
+sed -e "s/^version = \".*\"/version = \"$version\"/" \
+ -e "s#^out-dir = .*#out-dir = \"$PWD/$out\"#" \
+ -e "s#\"target/release\"#\"$PWD/$stage\"#" \
+ -e "s#\"deploy/packaging/#\"$PWD/deploy/packaging/#" \
+ -e "s#\"LICENSE-MIT\"#\"$PWD/LICENSE-MIT\"#" \
+ deploy/packaging/packager-macos.toml >"$config"
+cargo packager --config "$config" --formats dmg --release
+rm -rf "$stage"
+ls -l "$out"
diff --git a/deploy/packaging/packager-macos.toml b/deploy/packaging/packager-macos.toml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..64ef6c0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/deploy/packaging/packager-macos.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+# cargo-packager's description of the macOS bundle (P11a step 6; D-24,
+# D-25): the .app and its .dmg, UNSIGNED. `deploy/packaging/build-macos.sh`
+# runs it on a Mac (CI: the `macos` job of .github/workflows/release.yml).
+# Developer ID signing and notarization are step 5 (the owner's Apple
+# certificate, Q-4): they add `signing-identity` under [macos] and the
+# certificate and notarization credentials as CI secrets.
+# Paths are relative to this file's copy that build-macos.sh writes.
+name = "wanderbooks"
+product-name = "Wanderbooks"
+version = "0.1.0"
+identifier = "ai.wanderbooks.app"
+description = "Double-entry bookkeeping your agent keeps and you can read."
+homepage = "https://wanderbooks.ai"
+authors = ["Stephen Waits"]
+license-file = "LICENSE-MIT"
+category = "Finance"
+binaries-dir = "target/release"
+out-dir = "target/packages"
+# A png is made into the .icns (cargo-packager does it); the 512 px
+# placeholder is the owner's to replace.
+icons = ["deploy/packaging/icons/512x512.png"]
+formats = ["dmg"]
+binaries = [{ path = "wanderbooks", main = true }]
+
+[macos]
+# The oldest macOS Rust's tier-1 aarch64-apple-darwin and x86-64 targets
+# run on; eframe's wgpu/Metal path needs 10.15 at least.
+minimum-system-version = "11.0"
+# Keys merged into the generated Info.plist: one viewer at a time, and the
+# discrete GPU is not woken for a ledger.
+info-plist-path = "deploy/packaging/Info.plist"
+
+[dmg]
+window-size = { width = 540, height = 380 }
+app-position = { x = 140, y = 180 }
+application-folder-position = { x = 400, y = 180 }
diff --git a/docs/architecture.md b/docs/architecture.md
index 27e82bc..9e0572c 100644
--- a/docs/architecture.md
+++ b/docs/architecture.md
@@ -355,9 +355,21 @@ downgrading is theirs). Anything else (an AppImage, whose file is named by
without the agent noticing. The format gate stays the server's (3.9):
`rollback` refuses while a book declares a format or feature the kept
version does not know;
-- an AppImage is the exception to the restart: the host runs from the old
- image's mount, whose path does not change, so it keeps running the old
- version until the books are next closed and opened (docs/packaging.md).
+- an AppImage runs the program from a mount that goes away with the image,
+ so the host learns the image's own path from `APPIMAGE` (the one variable
+ `start.rs` adds to its scrubbed environment, only when it names an
+ absolute file; the host reads it about itself and never tells an agent),
+ runs and restarts from that file, and tells a replaced program by its
+ inode, size and last write, like any other;
+- updates are also **staged** (step 4): while the books are open the host
+ looks at the feed at most once a day (`update_check` knob; the look is
+ noted in `updates/checked`), and only downloads and verifies a newer
+ release into `/updates/staged/`. It never swaps. The staged program
+ is applied by an opener just before it starts a host (no host runs, so no
+ call is cut off), after a second check against the key, or by
+ `wanderbooks update`, the owner's say-so, which reuses the staged copy. A
+ local release is named in `/updates/feed` (a `file://` address, then
+ the key file), the same rule as `--trusted-key`.
`deploy/packaging/` holds the Linux packaging: `packager.toml`
(cargo-packager: `.deb`, AppImage, the pacman tarball with its PKGBUILD),
@@ -365,7 +377,9 @@ the rpm table in `crates/ledger-cli/Cargo.toml`, `aur/PKGBUILD` (the AUR
package, which repacks the release's tarball), `build-linux.sh`,
`repo-indexes.sh` (the apt and dnf indexes), `local-release.sh` (a
throwaway-keyed feed on this machine) and `test-linux-packages.sh`.
-`.github/workflows/release.yml` builds them on a version tag.
+`.github/workflows/release.yml` builds them on a version tag. The macOS
+bundle is `packager-macos.toml`, `Info.plist` and `build-macos.sh` (an
+unsigned `.dmg` from CI's `macos` job; signing and notarization are step 5).
## The result envelope and the guards (`ledger-mcp`, P5)
diff --git a/docs/packaging.md b/docs/packaging.md
index 3ec5b02..07063da 100644
--- a/docs/packaging.md
+++ b/docs/packaging.md
@@ -16,8 +16,8 @@ not a tool, so there is nothing for a recipe to call.
| `.rpm` | `cargo-generate-rpm` (table in `crates/ledger-cli/Cargo.toml`) | same paths, marker `rpm`; 36 MB | dnf repository (`repo-indexes.sh dnf`) | unsigned until step 5 (`--signing-key` takes the PGP key then) |
| AUR `PKGBUILD` | `cargo packager` makes the tarball (`pacman` format) and a PKGBUILD for it; ours is `deploy/packaging/aur/PKGBUILD`, which repacks the release's tarball (package `wanderbooks-bin`) | same paths, marker `aur`; built with `makepkg` | pacman (the AUR keeps old PKGBUILDs) | n/a (pacman trusts the AUR's checksums) |
| AppImage | `cargo packager` (`appimage`); 44 MB | one file the owner puts anywhere and runs; needs no admin password | `wanderbooks update` (`$APPIMAGE` is the file replaced) against the manifest; minisign | minisign by the release key (step 5) |
-| `.dmg` | `cargo packager` (`dmg`) | (trial) needs a Mac | `wanderbooks update` | Developer ID and notarization (step 5) |
-| NSIS `.exe` | `cargo packager` (`nsis`) | (trial) needs Windows, and native Windows is unit P11c (D-62) | `wanderbooks update` | the Windows identity (step 5) |
+| `.dmg` | `cargo packager` (`dmg`), `deploy/packaging/build-macos.sh`; **built in CI, unsigned; the trial on a Mac is the owner's** | `Wanderbooks.app` dragged to Applications; no admin password (the trial will say) | `wanderbooks update` (it replaces the program inside the `.app`: see the note below) | **unsigned**; Developer ID and notarization are step 5 |
+| NSIS `.exe` | `cargo packager` (`nsis`) | **not built**: native Windows is unit P11c (D-62) | `wanderbooks update` | the Windows identity (step 5) |
`just package-linux` builds the first four (`deploy/packaging/build-linux.sh`,
about a minute after the release build, itself 8 to 12 minutes on a
@@ -64,21 +64,18 @@ What the trial found, each of which is built around now:
manifest's `signature` is that `.sig` as written, and `update` reads the
public key in either form. Checked end to end by hand (below), and by
`a_public_key_is_read_in_every_form_minisign_and_the_packager_write_it`.
-7. **The AppImage updates itself but the books it holds do not restart
- onto the new image.** `update` replaces `$APPIMAGE`, and an AppImage run
- from a shell (`Wanderbooks.AppImage update`, or the one that was running)
- proves the swap and the rollback: after `update`, the AppImage on disk
- is the new file, the old one is kept, and `rollback` restores it. But the
- host that is open runs from the old image's mount
+7. **The AppImage updates itself, and (since step 4) the books it holds
+ restart onto the new image.** `update` replaces `$APPIMAGE`. The host
+ that is open used to run from the old image's mount
(`/tmp/.mount_*/usr/bin/wanderbooks`), a path that does not change, so
- `host.rs` never sees a replaced file and the open books keep the old
- version until they are closed and opened again (`wanderbooks close`).
- Fixing it means the host learning the image's path (its environment is
- scrubbed on purpose; `APPIMAGE` would join the allow-list of `start.rs`,
- or the path would come from the mount table) and starting its successor
- from it: a decision about what the host may trust, left to the EM (the
- unit's report names it). Package installs and a hand-placed executable
- restart as designed (`bridge_survives_update`).
+ it never saw a replaced file. The host now reads `APPIMAGE` (it is in
+ the allow-list of `start.rs`'s scrubbed environment, only when it names
+ an absolute file; a path the host reads about itself and never tells an
+ agent), runs and restarts from that file, and tells a replaced program
+ by its inode, size and last write. Tested without FUSE by
+ `a_replaced_appimage_restarts_the_books` (the programs run from one
+ copy while `APPIMAGE` names another, as a mount does); not run against
+ a real image mount in this wave.
8. **Onboarding with no terminal does not exist yet.** The unit's Done-when
(1) says an AppImage "opens, onboards and posts an entry with no
terminal". The AppImage opens (a bare launch is the viewer), but the viewer
@@ -118,6 +115,43 @@ package manager. Not tested: Ubuntu, openSUSE, a package-manager
*downgrade* (the repositories keep every release by construction), and the
`.rpm` and `.deb` under their real signatures (step 5).
+## The macOS bundle (step 6, built in CI, unsigned)
+
+`deploy/packaging/packager-macos.toml` (cargo-packager: the `dmg` format,
+which makes the `.app` first; the icon is the 512 px PNG, made into an
+`.icns` by the packager; `minimum-system-version` 11.0), `Info.plist`
+(merged into the generated one: one viewer at a time, no discrete GPU),
+`build-macos.sh` (the same shape as the Linux script, in portable shell
+because macOS has BSD `sed`) and `just package-macos`. The `macos` job of
+`.github/workflows/release.yml` runs on `macos-latest` (Apple silicon: the
+manifest key is `macos-aarch64`; an Intel build is not made), uploads the
+`.dmg` as a run artifact (named `macos-dmg-unsigned`) and, on a tag,
+attaches it to the release. **It is not signed or notarized** (step 5: the
+owner's Developer ID and Q-4), so Gatekeeper refuses it on a Mac that
+downloaded it; the owner opens it with right-click, Open. What was checked
+here, on Linux: the config parses under cargo-packager 0.11.8's strict
+schema (unknown keys are errors) and the script's `sed` is the portable
+subset. **Not checked: that the `.dmg` builds, mounts or runs**: that needs
+the CI run (Actions, release, Run workflow, this branch) and then a Mac.
+Open items for the trial on a Mac: whether `wanderbooks update` replacing
+the program inside a signed `.app` breaks its signature (it will: step 5
+must decide, probably by updating a whole `.app`); the translocated-app
+check (`translocated_app_refuses_to_connect`) is not built.
+
+## Updates staged by the host (step 4)
+
+The host looks at the feed at most once a day while the books are open
+(`update_check`), and downloads and verifies a newer release into
+`/updates/staged/` with a `meta.json` (version, sha256, signature,
+notes). It never swaps. The next opener that starts a host applies it
+first; `wanderbooks update` applies it too and reuses the staged copy;
+`update --check` says "already downloaded". A local release is named by
+`/updates/feed` (a `file://` address, then the key file). Without a
+compiled-in release key and without that file, the look does nothing but
+log why. Not built: the in-app "restart now to update" choice and the
+viewer's notice, which need an admin-socket intent and a place in the
+viewer (see the unit's As-built block).
+
## What `update` and `rollback` need from a release
`manifest.json` at `releases/latest/download/` (D-26):
diff --git a/docs/testing.md b/docs/testing.md
index db1c715..7eb8716 100644
--- a/docs/testing.md
+++ b/docs/testing.md
@@ -3711,6 +3711,25 @@ it (the same program with a tail, so its hash differs). All in
file now on disk (not a deleted one). The host's own restart laws stay
`open_while_held.rs`'s (`a_restart_is_not_a_close`).
+Step 3's gap and step 4 (same file):
+
+- `a_replaced_appimage_restarts_the_books`: the programs run from one copy
+ (a mount's) while `APPIMAGE` names another (the image); `update`
+ replaces only the image; the host restarts onto it (its `/proc/PID/exe`
+ is the image), the mount's copy is untouched, the session writes on.
+- `the_host_stages_a_daily_update_and_the_next_start_applies_it`: with a
+ local feed named in `updates/feed`, the host stages 9.0.0 by itself;
+ the program, the host and the session are unchanged meanwhile; after
+ `close`, the next opener applies it (the old program is kept, the staged
+ folder gone) and the books are as they were.
+- `a_daily_update_that_is_not_ours_is_not_staged`: a signature by another
+ key, then a wrong sha256, each looked at and neither staged.
+- `update_installs_the_copy_the_host_staged_without_downloading_again`: the
+ release's file is deleted; `update` installs from the staged copy.
+- `a_staged_update_that_was_tampered_with_is_dropped_not_applied`: a staged
+ file edited together with its recorded checksum fails the signature; the
+ next start drops it and runs the old program.
+
Unit tests in `update.rs`: `versions_are_three_numbers_and_order_by_number`,
`a_package_marker_beside_the_program_makes_it_package_managed`,
`a_manifest_address_is_resolved_beside_the_manifest`,
diff --git a/justfile b/justfile
index a6d248e..462aa66 100644
--- a/justfile
+++ b/justfile
@@ -273,6 +273,11 @@ package-linux version="" formats="deb,appimage,pacman":
cargo build --release -p ledger-cli
deploy/packaging/build-linux.sh {{version}} {{formats}}
+# Build the unsigned macOS .dmg (on a Mac; CI does it on a tag or dispatch)
+package-macos version="":
+ cargo build --release -p ledger-cli
+ deploy/packaging/build-macos.sh {{version}}
+
# A release folder on this machine signed with a throwaway key; then
# `wanderbooks update --feed file://DIR/manifest.json --trusted-key DIR/release.pub`
# Make a local release feed to try `wanderbooks update` against