Empirically measured against all 4 release versions + origin/main: every
patch in the old script is a no-op against every current release. v1.14.4
(the version that originally needed patches) doesn't even ship src/ in the
tarball — the old script silently no-op'd on it because it couldn't find
files to patch, then the build crashed with MODULE_NOT_FOUND in production.
Repurposed as a verifier: 5 hard checks (server.js requires, license-manager
path, src/ tree presence, license-keygen.js at root, generic src/ require
path scan) + informational warnings. Exits 1 on ANY failure with a clear
'Build should be ABORTED' message naming the v1.14.4-class bug if relevant.
Old behaviour was 'patch and continue' (silently hid regressions); new
behaviour is 'fail loud' (every regression now produces a build abort).
Files changed:
- scripts/dashcaddy-post-deploy-patches.sh — rewritten as verifier (222→274
lines, header explains the empirical evidence + behaviour change)
- dashcaddy-api/scripts/test-dashcaddy-post-deploy-verifier.sh — new
regression test, 17 assertions across 10 scenarios (clean tree, missing
files, broken requires, empty src/, missing app.js, absolute path, etc.)
Empirical measurements documented:
- origin/main: 5/5 checks pass
- v1.14.9 (latest): 5/5 checks pass (0 patches applied under old script)
- v1.14.8: 5/5 checks pass (0 patches applied under old script)
- v1.14.4: 2/5 checks FAIL under new verifier (src/ missing, license-manager
in wrong location) — old script silently no-op'd on the same input
Tests: 1214/1214 Jest + 31 shell assertions. Lint: 150 warnings, all
pre-existing in untouched files (zero new warnings introduced).
The release tarball previously omitted dashcaddy-api/src/, which meant the
in-container self-updater had to apply post-deploy patches (dashcaddy-post-
deploy-patches.sh) to work around missing files. That script generates 37
flat copies of src/ files at the dashcaddy-api/ root level to satisfy
broken require() paths. With proper src/ shipping, those files become
obsolete, but they were still being shown as untracked in git.
Changes:
- BUILD-PIPELINE-FIX.md documents the build pipeline fix (in /opt/dashcaddy-release/
build-release.sh — sibling repo, not tracked here)
- .gitignore now ignores the 37 generated post-deploy artifacts plus the
backups/ and updates/ runtime directories, so 'git status' stays clean
- scripts/dashcaddy-post-deploy-patches.sh is now tracked so it's preserved
across rebuilds (still useful as a safety net for transitional installs)
Hermes