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A verified artifact could install even when the declared host prerequisites prevent it from starting. Check the selected artifact before download: confirmed OS/glibc/library failures refuse installation, missing or old commands warn, and checks the host cannot answer warn. A per-tool ignore_requirements=true explicitly overrides hard failures.

Resolve commands from the active mise toolset before ambient PATH, use bounded probes, and compare numeric version components with zero padding. Linux library checks use the linker cache/search paths; macOS reports unknown absence when the dyld cache prevents a reliable answer. Requirements never resolve an artifact-selection tie.

Validation at the combined stack tip: 34 Packslip-focused tests and 2 process-cleanup tests passed; clippy with warnings denied and scoped formatting/TOML/Markdown/shell checks passed. The final live backend E2E test passed with the rebuilt binary, including latest resolution, warm-cache stamper-policy changes, signer pinning/reset, and lockfile reinstall.

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Install path now runs bounded host probes and can refuse downloads based on manifest requirements; incorrect probes or version parsing could block or warn wrongly, though overrides exist and artifact selection is unchanged.

Overview
Packslip installs now validate the selected artifact’s requires block after host matching and before downloading the release binary.

packslip_requirements probes the machine for os_min, glibc_min (Linux), shared libraries, and optional commands (with --version when a minimum is set). Confirmed OS/glibc/library gaps block install; missing or under-version commands and checks mise cannot run warn only. Per-tool ignore_requirements = true turns hard failures into warnings. Command lookup prefers the active mise toolset’s spawnable paths over ambient PATH (including Windows PATHEXT). These checks do not change which artifact is chosen.

Docs add a Host requirements section describing overrides, platform-specific library probing, and probe limits.

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  • New Features

    • Packslip installations now validate artifact host requirements, including operating system versions, glibc, required libraries, and command availability.
    • Installations are blocked when required checks fail unless ignore_requirements = true is configured.
    • Missing or outdated commands and unknown checks generate warnings without blocking installation.
    • Validation supports Linux, macOS, and Windows hosts.
    • Installations now support trusted vendor manifests, signer and attestation verification, supplemental files, and release-age checks.
  • Documentation

    • Added guidance on host requirement checks, platform-specific behavior, overrides, and validation limits.

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Packslip adds cross-platform host requirement checks before artifact download. It also adds authenticated release validation, trust settings, signer metadata, shared pin tracking, supplemental file retrieval, and installation cleanup.

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Packslip installation controls

Layer / File(s) Summary
Host requirement probing and validation
src/packslip_requirements.rs
Adds version parsing, platform-specific probes, command and library checks, warning and failure classification, enforcement overrides, and tests.
Authenticated release and artifact selection
src/backend/packslip.rs
Adds release-age checks, vendor withdrawal handling, signed-entry precedence, shared sequence tracking, trust option preservation, and artifact location helpers.
Verified installation and requirement enforcement
src/main.rs, src/backend/packslip.rs, docs/dev-tools/backends/packslip.md
Registers requirement checks, verifies artifact and signer metadata, checks requirements before download, records pins, fetches supplemental files, cleans up failed installations, and documents the behavior.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 0a7bc

Host-requirement enforcement may reject valid Windows installations, while signed requirement metadata can direct command probes through path-bearing names. Both issues are bounded and bypassable, but should be corrected or explicitly accepted before release.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant PackslipInstall
  participant ActiveToolset
  participant PackslipRequirements
  participant ArtifactDownload
  participant PinStore
  PackslipInstall->>ActiveToolset: Resolve required binaries
  PackslipInstall->>PackslipRequirements: Check selected artifact requirements
  PackslipRequirements-->>PackslipInstall: Return failures and warnings
  PackslipInstall->>ArtifactDownload: Download verified artifact when checks pass or are ignored
  PackslipInstall->>PinStore: Record signer and accepted pin metadata
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A rabbit checks each host with care
While signed releases mark the air
Pins hold fast and warnings glow
Trusted artifacts safely go
Supplemental files join the trail
Packslip hops when checks prevail

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Adds pre-download validation of Packslip artifact host requirements.

  • Checks minimum OS and glibc versions, required shared libraries, and companion commands.
  • Resolves commands from the active mise toolset before ambient PATH and restricts probes to directly spawnable paths.
  • Allows explicit per-tool override of hard requirement failures with ignore_requirements=true.
  • Documents platform-specific probing behavior, bounded execution, and cleanup guarantees.

Confidence Score: 5/5

The PR appears safe to merge; no outstanding correctness, security, or repository-rule issue was identified.

The previous Linux kernel-release parsing finding was fixed and its thread is resolved. The subsequent command-resolution and process-cleanup changes align with their platform contracts, and no new actionable failure remains.

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Filename Overview
src/packslip_requirements.rs Implements bounded, platform-aware host requirement probes and numeric minimum-version comparisons; the Linux suffixed-release parsing issue is fixed.
src/backend/packslip.rs Runs requirement checks after artifact selection and before download, preferring spawnable commands from the active toolset.
src/main.rs Registers the new Packslip requirements module.
docs/dev-tools/backends/packslip.md Documents requirement enforcement, overrides, command resolution, and platform limitations.

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Version parser drops v-prefixed output

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version_from_output accepts only tokens that are purely dotted digits after stripping quotes and brackets. A leading v is left in place, so common --version output such as v20.11.0 does not parse. The command then falls through to an unknown-check warning and never reports that it is older than bin.min.

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In `@docs/dev-tools/backends/packslip.md`:
- Line 192: Move the paragraph describing resource-generator deadlines, output
limits, and child-process cleanup from “Host requirements” to “Resource
selection and command execution,” alongside the existing five-second timeout
description. Keep the requirement-probe section separate so its 64 KiB output
limit remains unambiguous.

In `@src/packslip_requirements.rs`:
- Around line 219-222: Validate bin.name with file::is_plain_file_name before
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On Linux the OS version is the kernel release from `uname -r`, read up to the distribution's suffix: `6.8.0-31-generic` is compared as `6.8.0`. OS and glibc probes and command version probes have bounded execution and output. Linux library checks use `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`, standard directories, and `ldconfig -p`; Windows uses PATH and the system directory. macOS checks common library directories but reports unknown absence because the dyld shared cache can contain libraries with no filesystem entry.

Resource generators have a five-second deadline including inherited output pipes and a 4 MiB output limit. Their child processes are cleaned up on completion, failure, timeout, and cancellation.

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Move the resource-generator limits out of the "Host requirements" section.

This paragraph describes resource generators, not requirement probes. Under this heading, a reader applies the 4 MiB output limit to the requirement probes. The requirement probes cap output at 64 KiB in src/packslip_requirements.rs. Place this paragraph in "Resource selection and command execution", which already states the five-second timeout at Line 178.

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In `@docs/dev-tools/backends/packslip.md` at line 192, Move the paragraph
describing resource-generator deadlines, output limits, and child-process
cleanup from “Host requirements” to “Resource selection and command execution,”
alongside the existing five-second timeout description. Keep the
requirement-probe section separate so its 64 KiB output limit remains
unambiguous.

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let path = commands
.get(&bin.name)
.cloned()
.or_else(|| file::which(&bin.name));

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Validate bin.name as a plain file name before resolving and executing it.

file::which joins each PATH entry with bin.name. An absolute name can discard the PATH entry, and ../ components can escape it. The resulting path reaches CmdLineRunner::new(path).arg("--version"). Reject names that fail file::is_plain_file_name before resolution.

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`uname -r` reports a release, not a version: `6.8.0-31-generic`, or
`6.6.87.2-microsoft-standard-WSL2`. `version_from_output` accepts only
tokens whose every dot-separated part is digits, so on Linux the probe
returned nothing and a declared `os_min` warned as unknown rather than
refusing a host below it — the one case the check exists for.

Read the dotted numbers off the front of the release instead and stop at
the distribution's suffix, which is not ours to interpret. macOS reports a
bare `15.5` and takes the same path; Windows keeps the word-by-word read,
since `ver` prints a sentence.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The requirement check runs each declared command with `--version`, so the
path it picks has to be spawnable, and neither lookup guaranteed that.

`which_bin` answers for `mise which` and shim dispatch, where a shebang-only
script or a `.ps1` is a fine answer; here it is a path the probe cannot
start. `which_bin_spawnable` exists for exactly this and is what the check
now uses. On the ambient side, `file::which` matches the bare name, so a
Windows host's `git.exe` or `node.cmd` read as missing and a declared
command warned as absent; `which_spawnable` applies PATHEXT.

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Linux library cache probe truncated

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The ldconfig -p probe goes through read_isolated with a 64 KiB cap. A typical Linux linker cache is larger, so the probe errors and library_present treats the result as unknown. Missing libraries then warn instead of refusing the install, which is the failure this check is meant to catch.

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192-192: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Move this paragraph to "Resource selection and command execution".

This paragraph describes resource generators, not requirement probes. Under the "Host requirements" heading, a reader applies the 4 MiB output limit to the requirement probes. Line 190 states that requirement probes have bounded output, and src/packslip_requirements.rs caps that output at 64 KiB. The five-second timeout for exec resources is already documented at Line 178, so this paragraph belongs in that section.

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In `@docs/dev-tools/backends/packslip.md` at line 192, Move the paragraph
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output limit, and child-process cleanup from “Host requirements” to “Resource
selection and command execution,” keeping the existing wording and section
context intact.
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In `@src/packslip_requirements.rs`:
- Line 167: Update the Windows search branch around the paths existence check so
an unsuccessful directory scan returns None rather than Some(false), treating
unresolved libraries as unknown and allowing check to warn instead of fail.
Preserve Some(true) when the library is found and keep the existing behavior for
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In `@docs/dev-tools/backends/packslip.md`:
- Line 192: Move the paragraph describing resource-generator deadlines,
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if let Some(root) = std::env::var_os("SystemRoot") {
paths.push(PathBuf::from(root).join("System32"));
}
Some(paths.iter().any(|p| p.join(name).is_file()))

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Report unknown instead of absent when the Windows search is incomplete.

This branch returns Some(false) for any library that is not in PATH or %SystemRoot%\System32. check turns Some(false) into a fatal failure at Line 214. Windows loader resolution also covers SysWOW64 for 32-bit modules, WinSxS side-by-side assemblies, and KnownDLLs, so a present library can read as absent and refuse a valid install. The macOS branch already returns None for the same reason.

Consider returning None when the directory scan finds nothing, so the result is a warning rather than a refusal.

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-        Some(paths.iter().any(|p| p.join(name).is_file()))
+        // The loader also consults SysWOW64, WinSxS, and KnownDLLs, which this
+        // scan cannot see, so absence here is unknown rather than proven.
+        paths
+            .iter()
+            .any(|p| p.join(name).is_file())
+            .then_some(true)
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Some(paths.iter().any(|p| p.join(name).is_file()))
// The loader also consults SysWOW64, WinSxS, and KnownDLLs, which this
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paths
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In `@src/packslip_requirements.rs` at line 167, Update the Windows search branch
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