Broken recipe.toml corruption also affects tracked symlinks in
recipes/ tree (e.g. recipes/libs/libxau/recipe.toml). Extended
the auto-repair find to cover both local/recipes/ and recipes/.
Detects broken recipe.toml symlinks in local/recipes/ (self-referencing
corruption from unknown source) and auto-restores from git before build.
Prevents 'Package not found' errors when recipe.toml files are unreadable.
upgrade-forks.sh:
- --no-fetch: use cached upstream refs (no network required)
- --force-reapply: force rebase even when 0 commits behind upstream
Automatically detects missing functions via verify-fork-functions.sh
and triggers reapply when RB cherry-picks dropped upstream code.
verify-fork-functions.sh:
- Cross-file search: when a function is missing from its upstream file,
search ALL fork .rs files for renamed/moved equivalents (→ MOVED)
- Per-fork exclusion list: .verify-fork-functions.exclude for
intentionally removed/replaced functions (→ EXCLUDED)
- Only truly missing (not found anywhere, not excluded) = violations
build-preflight.sh:
- Updated fix suggestion to --no-fetch --force-reapply
Results: installer 2→0 (exclusion+move), kernel 19→15 (4 moved),
base 56→44 (12 moved). Remaining missing functions are known RB
replacements pending exclusion entries.
Per AGENTS.md § 'INSTALLER FILE LAYERING' / 'Collision Implications':
- Layer 2 (Package staging) **overwrites Layer 1** for any matching paths.
- This is the silent-collision class of bug: a config [[files]] entry
writes to /path/X, but a package also stages /path/X during
install_packages(). Last-writer-wins, the package wins, the
operator's customization is gone — and the build succeeds.
Phase 0 audit confirmed that AGENTS.md's promise of a CollisionTracker
in src/cook/collision.rs was false (the file doesn't exist). Phase 4.2
implements the runtime collision detection at the build-system
level (in pre-flight, not in installer source) so the silent-collision
class surfaces before install_packages().
New file: local/scripts/verify-collision-detection.py
- Parses every recipes/<cat>/<pkg>/recipe.toml's [[package]].installs
field — files the package WILL install at build time
- Parses every config/redbear-*.toml's [[files]] entries
- Reports collisions: exact-match + parent-directory-prefix
- Exempts known-safe overrides (per AGENTS.md 'Init Service File
Ownership'): /etc/init.d/*, /etc/environment.d/*
Initial result (2026-07-12):
- 68 recipe installs surveyed
- 165 config [[files]] entries surveyed
- 0 collisions
Wired into local/scripts/build-preflight.sh via:
- Default: report-only
- --strict: exit 1 on collision (for CI)
- REDBEAR_SKIP_COLLISION_CHECK=1: bypass entirely
Updated local/docs/COLLISION-DETECTION-STATUS.md with:
- Phase 4.2 implementation summary
- How the algorithm works
- What it does NOT cover (runtime conflicts, patch-induced, dynamic
generation)
- Recovery options
1. local/scripts/build-preflight.sh — invoke verify-patch-content.sh
on every build (warn-only by default to avoid blocking operator
builds during patch-recovery work). REDBEAR_SKIP_PATCH_CONTENT_CHECK=1
bypasses the check.
2. local/docs/PATCH-PRESERVATION-AUDIT-2026-07-12.md — full audit
report documenting:
- 144 patches at risk of being lost across base + relibc + kernel
- audit methodology (substring presence of first 5 added lines)
- spot-check evidence (kernel branding still shows 'Redox OS'
instead of 'RedBear OS' before recovery)
- root cause: mega-commit squashing pattern dropped hunks during
concurrent-upstream merges
- Phase 1.0A recovery results (75 patches absorbed back into forks)
- remaining gaps + Phase 2 plan.
CRITICAL: Add verify-fork-functions.sh — detects silent upstream code loss
from bad merges that file-level verification cannot catch. This is the
verification that would have caught the kfdwrite drop bug.
Wire it into build-preflight.sh (pre-build gate) and upgrade-forks.sh
(post-upgrade gate with automatic rollback on failure).
Fix upgrade-forks.sh:
- Fetch failures now abort instead of being silently swallowed
- Backup branch names include fork name + PID to prevent collisions
- Post-upgrade verification runs verify-fork-functions.sh and rolls
back if upstream functions are missing
Fix bump-fork.sh:
- Replace wrong 'git tag -e' with 'git rev-parse --verify refs/tags/'
- Clone failures now error explicitly instead of silent fallback
- Version sed uses proper regex escaping for + characters
- Atomic swap has rollback recovery if mv fails
- Instructions now mention fork-upstream-map.toml update
Fix sync-upstream.sh:
- Define PROJECT_ROOT before use (was crashing under set -u)
Fix build-preflight.sh:
- Add REDBEAR_SKIP_FUNCTION_CHECK gate for verify-fork-functions.sh
Kernel submodule pointer updated to 0.3.1 branch with kfdwrite restored.
- check-fork-drift.sh: compares each submodule HEAD against upstream/master,
reports behind/ahead counts, exits 1 if any fork exceeds threshold
- upgrade-forks.sh: fetches latest upstream, saves RB commits, resets to
upstream, cherry-picks RB patches with conflict handling and backups
- build-preflight.sh: wired drift check into preflight (threshold=50,
suppressible via REDBEAR_SKIP_DRIFT_CHECK=1)
- bootloader submodule pointer updated to latest upstream rebase
Per local/AGENTS.md \xC2\xA7 'No-fake-version-label rule':
Every Cat 2 fork version MUST match the source content from the
corresponding upstream release + documented Red Bear patches.
A `-rbN` label on stale content is a fake label and a policy
violation.
Changes:
* local/AGENTS.md: documented the no-fake-version-label rule,
including what counts as a fake label, the enforcement contract,
and what a real Red Bear fork looks like.
* local/fork-upstream-map.toml: authoritative mapping of each
Cat 2 fork (syscall, libredox, redoxfs, redox-scheme, relibc,
kernel, bootloader, installer, userutils) to its upstream Git
URL and release tag.
* local/scripts/refresh-fork-upstream-map.sh: auto-update the
fork-upstream-map by querying each upstream repo for the
current latest stable release tag.
* local/scripts/verify-fork-versions.sh: preflight enforcement
script. For each Cat 2 fork with a `-rbN` version field:
1. Compare fork's file list and content against the upstream
release tag from the map. Reject the build if files are
missing (would be a fake label).
2. Reject the build if files exist in local that don't exist
in upstream (must be moved to local/patches/<fork>/ as
documented Red Bear patches).
3. Reject the build if shared files diverge in content.
* local/scripts/apply-rb-suffix.sh: invokes
verify-fork-versions.sh after applying the `-rbN` label so the
build fails fast if the labelled content is fake.
* local/scripts/build-preflight.sh: invokes
verify-fork-versions.sh at the start of every build. Bypassed
only with REDBEAR_SKIP_FORK_VERIFY=1 (emergency only).
* local/patches/bottom/0001-ratui-0.30-braille-compat.patch: the
ratatui 0.30+ compatibility shim for bottom 0.11.2.
This is the structural enforcement that prevents fake labels from
ever reaching the build again. The current 6 forks with `-rbN`
labels are flagged by the verifier — they must be rebased onto
their actual upstream release before the build can succeed.
- recipes/dev/python312/recipe.toml: use COOKBOOK_TOOLCHAIN for
--with-build-python instead of /tmp/python312, which the build system
never stages. Add [ -x ] guard for clear failure on missing dev-dep.
- recipes/core/userutils/recipe.toml: switch from upstream git URL to
local fork (local/sources/userutils/) per the local fork model. The
upstream source opens /scheme/pty/ptmx which the ptyd scheme does not
recognize; the local fork opens /scheme/pty correctly and avoids the
getty PTY panic.
- local/scripts/build-preflight.sh: warn when a recipe build script
references /tmp/<known-package>/, since the cookbook does not stage
host dev-deps under /tmp/<name>. Points authors at COOKBOOK_TOOLCHAIN.
- local/scripts/build-redbear.sh: replace 'tail -1 || true' on pre-cook
failures with proper error capture, last-50-lines tail on failure, and
exit-1. Verify the pkgar exists after a successful cook.
TLC (Twilight Commander) was missing from both ISO configs. Added
tlc = {} to [packages] in redbear-mini.toml and redbear-full.toml.
Created missing symlink: recipes/tui/tlc -> ../../local/recipes/tui/tlc.
The preflight validate-source-trees.py was blocking development builds
with 'To restore: ./local/scripts/restore-sources.sh --release=<release>'
because the source/ trees for 17 core recipes (base, kernel, etc.) are
gitignored and only auto-fetched on demand by `repo cook`.
This worked correctly for release mode (REDBEAR_RELEASE=...) where
sources are immutable and pre-extracted, but blocked every dev build.
Now:
- RELEASE mode: full strict validation, sources must be pre-extracted
- Development mode: validation skipped, repo cook auto-fetches sources
This is the documented Red Bear OS policy (see AGENTS.md:
Build flow: 'make all CONFIG_NAME=redbear-full' calls repo cook which
fetches sources from git/tar URLs)
vasilito