dpkg-deb prints a BARE VALUE when one control field is requested and
"<Field>: <value>" when several are. Every reader was written for one shape and
broke on the other, so no pool could be read and no pin could be matched against
real files:
- build-index.sh: kept the label, so "Package: curl" failed the name check and
the pool came out empty -- the build refused with "no .deb files";
- add-packages.sh (read_deb): rejected every genuine .deb as an invalid name;
(scan_existing): produced empty keys, so a version conflict went undetected
and the same package was copied twice;
- build-offline-repo.sh: compared a labelled value with a "package=version" pin,
which can never match.
A first attempt with `sed 's/^Field: //'` was wrong in the other direction: sed
-v prints nothing when the pattern does not match, which emptied the single-field
reads. The label is now dropped only when it is present
(awk: if the first word ends with a colon), which leaves a bare value and a
version like "1:2.3-4" untouched.
Also fixed in build-index.sh: the foreign-file guard did not list
repo-manifest.yaml, the record this script writes into the bundle itself, so
every second build stopped on its own previous output. Accepting it is what
makes a rebuild possible at all.
Tests
- The dpkg-deb stub now reproduces both shapes, the single- and the multi-field
one. It emitted only one, which is exactly why this class stayed invisible
while the suite was green.
- The rebuild case mirrors the production layout (record inside the output
directory) and is proven by mutation: removing repo-manifest.yaml from the
guard's allow-list turns it red.
The package pool was committed but the installer still stopped at "no local
package repository": it requires the compiled bundle (Packages, Packages.gz,
packages.lock.tsv, SHA256SUMS), and building that had never run.
The bundle
- 1321 packages, 884 MiB, Ubuntu 26.04 amd64, built with apt-ftparchive on the
fleet's own release so the closure matches the devices.
- built/pool/ is gitignored: those .deb files are already tracked once under
provisioning/offline-repo/packages/, and the same ~890 MB does not need a
second path. What the installer reads from the bundle is the index.
- The output directory is chmod 0755: mktemp -d created it 0700 and left it
so, which made a valid bundle unreadable to the installer's probe.
dpkg-deb output was parsed wrong in four places
- `dpkg-deb -f <file> Package Version` prints "<Field>: <value>", and the
callers kept the whole line, so the value carried its label. build-index.sh
therefore accepted no package at all and reported an empty pool;
add-packages.sh rejected every real .deb as an invalid name, missed version
conflicts, and copied a duplicate; build-offline-repo.sh never matched a pin.
- The test suite could not see any of this: its dpkg-deb stub emitted bare
values. The stub now prints the labels exactly as the real tool does, which
is what surfaced the remaining three sites.
Tests
- The secret scan covers the files we author, not apt-ftparchive's index over
third-party packages: polkit's own description reads "...asked for their
password:", which is prose in the packages, not a leak. Any secret reaching a
manifest, README or tool is still caught.
- The "test build must not touch the bundle" assertion now compares the
directory before and after instead of demanding it be empty, so a
maintainer's real build is not reported as test spill.
Adds the Blueforce Field OS provisioning stack on top of the existing fleet
architecture, without rewriting the working systems (installer, diagnostics,
Ansible, WireGuard/SSH/xRDP/RustDesk, Docker policies, monitoring, Docusaurus).
ISO build (the previous builder was a skeleton that produced no medium):
- boot layout is read from the base ISO at build time via
`xorriso -report_el_torito as_mkisofs` and rebuilt with `-as mkisofs`;
`-boot_image any replay` cannot work on Ubuntu live ISOs because the GRUB2
MBR lives in the source image's first 16 sectors and the EFI system partition
is an appended partition, neither of which is a file in the ISO9660 tree
- preflight now asserts El Torito boot metadata positively: xorriso exits 0 on
a non-ISO input, which previously let an arbitrary file pass --check
- artifact produced and verified: dist/Blueforce-Field-OS-1.0.0-amd64.iso,
6 481 917 952 bytes, SHA256 cb0cc56f...d431296, BIOS+UEFI entries preserved,
/autoinstall.yaml at the media root, casper/minimal.squashfs byte-identical
to the base
- recorded baseline deviation: the verified medium on the build host is the
Desktop flavour, so the manifest carries a baseline_deviation block instead
of hiding it; Server remains one flag away
Offline and identity:
- offline APT contract with concrete package requirements, pin format and an
audit table; builds fail closed while pins are UNPINNED
- autoinstall keeps interactive-sections: [storage]: the operator confirms the
target disk, and no automatic wipe is ever performed
- firstboot terminal wizard for the 8-digit dealer id, three-state lifecycle
(PROVISIONED_OFFLINE -> ENROLLED -> READY) with fail-closed gates, so a
missing internet link or WireGuard handshake cannot fail provisioning but can
never produce a false READY
Fleet and migration:
- five read-only Ansible playbooks for Field OS version, provisioning,
enrollment, remote channels and offline readiness, all wave-scoped with a
separate production override
- Windows pre-migration inventory and data export extended to the full brief
scope, read-only, never collecting credentials
Tests: tests/run-all.sh -> 8/8 pass, exit 0. Boot acceptance (UEFI, Legacy
BIOS, Secure Boot), air-gapped install, real enrollment endpoint and Windows
rollback remain LAB work and are listed in IMPLEMENTATION-REPORT.md.
