Everyone branches off main and builds from their own branch. A branch that is
behind main still builds and installs perfectly — it just packages a binary
missing whatever landed on main meanwhile, and `rpm -U --force` overwrites the
good one with it. Nothing reports an error; the release succeeds and the feature
simply vanishes from the installed CLI.
That is what happened today: a build from a stale checkout replaced
/usr/bin/mcpctl with one that has no `statusline` command at all, months after
the status line landed on main (`mcpctl statusline` -> "unknown command").
`check-main-sync.sh` fetches main, compares, and fails before any work happens,
listing the commits the branch is missing and the merge that fixes it. Sourced
by build-rpm.sh and build-deb.sh — both are run standalone, so neither can rely
on the other having checked.
A hard failure rather than a warning: a warning scrolls past in a build log, and
the whole point is to stop before the artifact exists.
MCPCTL_ALLOW_BEHIND_MAIN=1 is the escape hatch for a deliberate old-tree build;
MCPCTL_BASE_BRANCH retargets the comparison. Offline it degrades to the last
fetched origin/main, then a local main, saying which it used; outside a git
checkout it skips.
Verified: passes on this branch (up to date with main); against a synthetic ref
one commit ahead, build-rpm.sh aborts with exit 1 before ensure_build_deps and
before any compilation; the escape hatch bypasses it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019wUmrfkVQR6CKcYKxENq7k
- nfpm.yaml: use ${NFPM_ARCH} (Go's ExpandEnv doesn't support :-default)
- arch-helper.sh: export RPM_ARCH (x86_64/aarch64) alongside NFPM_ARCH
- build-rpm/deb.sh: build TypeScript before running tests (tests need
built @mcpctl/shared), generate Prisma client on fresh checkout
- Fix RPM filename matching to use aarch64 not arm64
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Build scripts now check for required tools before building and install
them automatically if missing. Handles both amd64 and arm64 host systems.
- pnpm: installed via corepack or npm
- bun: installed via official install script
- nfpm: downloaded from GitHub for the correct host architecture
- node_modules: runs pnpm install if missing
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add cross-architecture build support so the project can be developed on
ARM64 (Fedora aarch64 laptop) while still producing amd64 packages for
production. All build, package, publish, and install scripts are now
architecture-aware via shared arch-helper.sh detection.
- Add scripts/arch-helper.sh for shared architecture detection
- CI builds both amd64 and arm64 in matrix strategy
- nfpm.yaml uses NFPM_ARCH env var instead of hardcoded amd64
- Build scripts support MCPCTL_TARGET_ARCH for cross-compilation
- installlocal.sh auto-detects RPM/DEB and filters by architecture
- release.sh gains --both-arches flag for dual-arch releases
- Package cleanup is arch-scoped (won't clobber other arch's packages)
- build-mcpd.sh supports --platform and --multi-arch flags
- Add pnpm scripts: rpm:build:amd64, deb:build:arm64, release:both
- Conditional rpm/dpkg-deb checks for cross-distro compatibility
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Support DEB packaging alongside RPM for Debian trixie (13/stable),
forky (14/testing), Ubuntu noble (24.04 LTS), and plucky (25.04).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
