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timothy 0cf355e494 fix(772,792): address both cold reviews — an unverified pin is no longer a green job
Two independent reviewers (one cross-family) converged on the same defect, and it was the
important one: the preflight WARNED and exited 0 on every answer that was not 200 or 404,
so a missing `curl`, a moved registry or a DNS change would have left it green forever —
"the check could not run" presenting as "the pin is fine", in a script whose own header
disclaimed exactly that. Unknown answers are now retried (3x, 5s) and then FAIL, with
wording kept distinct from the deleted case because the two send an operator to different
places.

Also from the reviews:

  * An absent secret does not arrive as an unset variable. `${{ secrets.X }}:${{ secrets.Y }}`
    interpolates to ":", a perfectly non-empty and perfectly useless credential, and the
    tests covered only the unset shape. Both halves are now required, and the parametrised
    test drives the production shape.
  * HTTP 200 is not a manifest. A proxy or a login page answers 200 too, so the body is
    fetched and matched for `schemaVersion` (a shell `case`, so no jq dependency and no
    pipeline that can inject).
  * The curl stub ignored `-u` and answered 200 regardless, so deleting the real `-u` would
    have left the suite green while the live registry rejected every request. It now 401s an
    unauthenticated read, as the registry does.
  * The mutation's declared diagnostic changed with the script: now that unknown fails too,
    the exit code no longer separates "deleted" from "could not check", so the proof turns on
    the message and `expect` says so.
  * docs/ci-cd.md: `scan` is no longer the only `docker-build.yml` job on the small lane, so
    the tag-push exclusivity claim and the lane membership were both false. Fixed.
  * "Immutable" was overstated: `ci-image.yml` tags `rev-parse --short HEAD`, so a dispatch or
    a weekly no-cache run at the same HEAD republishes that tag from a rebuilt image. Stated,
    along with what the rebuild recovery does NOT restore (mutable bases and apt, so equivalent
    rather than bit-identical).
  * The recovery recipe left you in a worktree checked out at the pin commit — where the
    verify script does not exist, and where the workflow carries the pre-bump pin. It now
    keeps `$repo`, returns, and removes the worktree. It also needed BuildKit's `http = true`
    caveat: the container driver does not inherit the daemon's insecure-registries.
  * The root cause carries its evidentiary limit and its reproduction commands, and says what
    to conclude if a pin vanishes after server-management#842 lands (refuted, not re-applied).
  * The `ci.required-job-step-execution-markers` carve-out named one container-free job; there
    are two now, and the membership is what rots.
  * The decision record's `''` YAML escapes leaked into rendered prose; "status, no comment ->
    ask" is qualified (a prior positive verdict for the SAME head still satisfies condition
    (c)); "exits 1" is "exits non-zero" (usage exits 2, jq its own status, signals 128+n).

refs #772
refs #792
Decisions-Edit: yes
2026-08-22 23:25:26 +02:00

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"""Tests for `scripts/ci-toolchain-image-resolves.sh` (ersatztv#772).
The script answers one question — does the tag `docker-build.yml` pins still exist? — and the whole
value is in *which answers it refuses to round off*. A registry read has three outcomes, not two:
present, gone, and could-not-tell. Collapsing the third into either of the others is how a preflight
becomes decoration, so each is driven here through the real entry point with a stubbed `curl`.
`test_MUTATION_a_deleted_tag_is_reported_as_a_failure` is the load-bearing one and is declared in
`scripts/tests/mutation_manifest.py`: disarming the `404` arm leaves a script that still runs, still
prints, still exits 0 — and never reports the outage it exists for.
"""
from __future__ import annotations
import os
import subprocess
from pathlib import Path
import pytest
REPO_ROOT = Path(__file__).resolve().parents[2]
SCRIPT = REPO_ROOT / "scripts" / "ci-toolchain-image-resolves.sh"
# Stands in for `curl -s -w '\n%{http_code}' -u <auth> -H Accept <url>`: prints a scripted body,
# a newline and the HTTP code, and logs the call. It VALIDATES `-u` rather than ignoring it — a stub
# that answers 200 whether or not the script authenticates would stay green if the real `-u` were
# deleted, which is the fidelity gap that lets a test double certify a script the live registry
# would reject on every request.
CURL_SHIM = r"""#!/usr/bin/env python3
import os, pathlib, sys
state = pathlib.Path(os.environ["STUB_DIR"])
args = sys.argv[1:]
url = [a for a in args if a.startswith("http")][-1]
tag = url.rsplit("/", 1)[-1]
auth = args[args.index("-u") + 1] if "-u" in args else ""
with (state / "calls").open("a") as fh:
fh.write(f"{url} auth={auth}\n")
# The live registry answers 401 to an anonymous read of ANY tag, present or deleted.
user, _, password = auth.partition(":")
if not user or not password:
print("{}\n401", end="")
sys.exit(0)
codes = dict(pair.split("=", 1) for pair in (state / "codes").read_text().split() if pair)
code = codes.get(tag, codes.get("*", "200"))
if code == "TRANSPORT":
# Real curl prints the -w output and exits 7 when the connection fails; both halves matter.
print("000", end="")
sys.exit(7)
body = '{"schemaVersion": 2, "mediaType": "application/vnd.oci.image.manifest.v1+json"}'
if code == "200-NOT-A-MANIFEST":
code, body = "200", "<html><title>Sign in</title></html>"
print(f"{body}\n{code}", end="")
"""
WORKFLOW_TEMPLATE = """jobs:
test:
container:
image: 192.168.1.95:3000/timothy/ersatztv-ci:{pin}
"""
@pytest.fixture
def preflight(tmp_path):
bindir = tmp_path / "bin"
bindir.mkdir()
shim = bindir / "curl"
shim.write_text(CURL_SHIM)
shim.chmod(0o755)
state = tmp_path / "state"
state.mkdir()
(state / "codes").write_text("*=200")
workflow = tmp_path / "docker-build.yml"
workflow.write_text(WORKFLOW_TEMPLATE.format(pin="32747a0"))
env = dict(os.environ)
env["PATH"] = f"{bindir}{os.pathsep}{env['PATH']}"
env["STUB_DIR"] = str(state)
env["ETV_CI_WORKFLOW"] = str(workflow)
env["ETV_REGISTRY_AUTH"] = "stub-user:stub-pass"
# The retry PAUSE is what makes failing on an unknown affordable in CI and unaffordable in a
# test suite; the retry COUNT is behaviour, so it is kept and only the wait is removed.
env["ETV_CI_ATTEMPTS"] = "2"
env["ETV_CI_RETRY_SECONDS"] = "0"
class Handle:
def __init__(self):
self.env = env
self.state = state
self.workflow = workflow
self.script = SCRIPT
def set_codes(self, mapping: dict[str, str]):
(state / "codes").write_text(" ".join(f"{k}={v}" for k, v in mapping.items()))
def set_workflow_text(self, text: str):
workflow.write_text(text)
def calls(self):
log = state / "calls"
return log.read_text().splitlines() if log.exists() else []
def run(self, script: Path | None = None):
return subprocess.run(
["bash", str(script or SCRIPT)],
env=env,
capture_output=True,
text=True,
cwd=REPO_ROOT,
)
return Handle()
def test_a_pin_that_resolves_passes(preflight):
preflight.set_codes({"*": "200"})
result = preflight.run()
assert result.returncode == 0, result.stderr
assert "32747a0 resolves" in result.stdout
assert preflight.calls(), "the registry was never queried, so nothing was established"
def test_MUTATION_a_deleted_tag_is_reported_as_a_failure(preflight):
"""The outage of 2026-08-11..13, in one assertion.
Declared in `mutation_manifest.py`: replacing the `404` arm sends a deleted tag down the
could-not-tell path, where it warns and exits 0 — a preflight that runs, prints, and misses the
only thing it was built to catch.
"""
preflight.set_codes({"32747a0": "404"})
result = preflight.run()
assert result.returncode != 0, (
"a deleted tag did not fail the preflight — the 404 arm is not load-bearing:\n"
f"stdout={result.stdout}\nstderr={result.stderr}"
)
assert "IS GONE" in result.stderr, (
"a deleted tag was not reported as GONE — the 404 arm is not load-bearing. Since an "
"unverifiable answer now fails too, exiting non-zero no longer distinguishes 'the image is "
"deleted' from 'the check could not run', and only this message does:\n"
f"stderr={result.stderr}"
)
assert "32747a0" in result.stderr, "the message must name the tag the operator has to restore"
assert "server-management#842" in result.stderr, "and where the durable fix lives"
@pytest.mark.parametrize("code", ["TRANSPORT", "503"])
def test_an_unknown_answer_FAILS_and_is_not_reported_as_gone(preflight, code):
"""The first draft warned and exited 0 here, which is how a preflight becomes a no-op.
A missing `curl`, a moved registry or a DNS change all land in this arm, and each would have
been green forever. It fails — but with its own wording, because "could not verify" and "IS
GONE" send an operator to entirely different places.
"""
preflight.set_codes({"32747a0": code})
result = preflight.run()
assert result.returncode != 0, "an unestablished check must not report success"
assert "could NOT VERIFY" in result.stderr
assert "IS GONE" not in result.stderr, "could-not-tell must never be reported as gone"
def test_an_unknown_is_RETRIED_before_it_fails(preflight):
"""Retries are what make failing on unknown affordable rather than flaky."""
preflight.env["ETV_CI_ATTEMPTS"] = "3"
preflight.set_codes({"32747a0": "503"})
assert preflight.run().returncode != 0
assert len(preflight.calls()) == 3, f"expected 3 attempts, got {preflight.calls()}"
def test_an_ANSWER_is_not_retried(preflight):
"""404 and 200 are answers; retrying them would only slow the job down."""
preflight.set_codes({"32747a0": "404"})
assert preflight.run().returncode != 0
assert len(preflight.calls()) == 1, f"a 404 must not be retried, got {preflight.calls()}"
def test_HTTP_200_with_a_body_that_is_not_a_manifest_is_not_a_pass(preflight):
"""A proxy or a login page answers 200 too; the status line alone establishes nothing."""
preflight.set_codes({"32747a0": "200-NOT-A-MANIFEST"})
result = preflight.run()
assert result.returncode != 0
assert "not a manifest" in result.stderr
assert "IS GONE" not in result.stderr
@pytest.mark.parametrize("code", ["401", "403"])
def test_rejected_credentials_refuse_rather_than_pass(preflight, code):
"""The failure mode that would otherwise make this job green forever.
An anonymous read of this registry is 401 for a live tag and a deleted one alike, so treating
an auth failure as "could not tell, carry on" would turn a broken secret into a permanent,
silent pass.
"""
preflight.set_codes({"32747a0": code})
result = preflight.run()
assert result.returncode != 0
assert "rejected these credentials" in result.stderr
@pytest.mark.parametrize(
("value", "shape"),
[
(None, "unset"),
(":", "both secrets absent — WHAT THE WORKFLOW ACTUALLY PASSES"),
("user:", "password secret absent"),
(":pass", "user secret absent"),
("no-colon", "malformed"),
],
)
def test_unusable_credentials_refuse_BEFORE_querying_anything(preflight, value, shape):
"""The empty-halves cases are the ones that happen, and testing only `unset` misses them.
`ETV_REGISTRY_AUTH: ${{ secrets.REGISTRY_USER }}:${{ secrets.REGISTRY_PASSWORD }}` interpolates
a missing secret to the empty string, so a job with no secrets configured passes the non-empty
string ":" — which is a perfectly good non-empty value and a useless credential. The registry
answers 401 to it for a live tag and a deleted one alike.
"""
if value is None:
del preflight.env["ETV_REGISTRY_AUTH"]
else:
preflight.env["ETV_REGISTRY_AUTH"] = value
result = preflight.run()
assert result.returncode != 0, f"{shape}: reported success on a credential it cannot use"
assert "ETV_REGISTRY_AUTH" in result.stderr
assert preflight.calls() == [], "it must not query the registry it cannot authenticate to"
def test_the_credential_actually_REACHES_the_registry(preflight):
"""Anti-vacuity for every test above: the stub 401s an unauthenticated read, as the live
registry does, so a script that stopped passing `-u` would redden the whole file rather than
sailing through on a stub that answers 200 regardless."""
preflight.set_codes({"*": "200"})
assert preflight.run().returncode == 0
assert preflight.calls() == [
"http://192.168.1.95:3000/v2/timothy/ersatztv-ci/manifests/32747a0 auth=stub-user:stub-pass"
]
def test_a_workflow_with_no_pin_at_all_is_a_failure(preflight):
"""If the grep stops matching, the honest report is 'I found nothing', not 'all clear'."""
preflight.set_workflow_text("jobs:\n test:\n runs-on: ubuntu-latest\n")
result = preflight.run()
assert result.returncode != 0
assert "no ersatztv-ci pin found" in result.stderr
def test_every_distinct_pin_is_checked_and_one_gone_fails_the_job(preflight):
"""`ci-image-pin` bans a second pin; this must not silently check only the first one anyway."""
preflight.set_workflow_text(
WORKFLOW_TEMPLATE.format(pin="32747a0") + " image: 192.168.1.95:3000/timothy/ersatztv-ci:15d2439\n"
)
preflight.set_codes({"32747a0": "200", "15d2439": "404"})
result = preflight.run()
assert result.returncode != 0
assert "15d2439" in result.stderr
assert len(preflight.calls()) == 2, f"both pins must be queried, got {preflight.calls()}"
def test_the_grep_line_cannot_match_ITSELF(preflight):
"""The pin is found with the same expression `pr-checks.yml::ci-image-pin` uses.
That expression is written into this script's own source, so a careless pattern would find its
own text and 'check' a pin nobody wrote — and the same hazard sits in `pr-checks.yml`, whose
pin-count check greps the file this script's job now lives in. Feed the real script its own
source as the workflow file: the answer must be 'no pin found', not a query for `[0-9a-f]+`.
This also pins the second half of the property — the source carries no literal pin of its own,
so the file cannot go stale against a pin bump it does not participate in.
"""
preflight.set_workflow_text(SCRIPT.read_text())
result = preflight.run()
assert result.returncode != 0
assert "no ersatztv-ci pin found" in result.stderr
assert preflight.calls() == []