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fix(brew): resolve cask artifacts behind flight-created symlinks - #12243
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`find_artifact_matching` located artifacts by walking the stage with `WalkDir`, which defaults to `follow_links = false`. An artifact reachable only through a symlink that a flight step created was therefore invisible. gcloud-cli hits this: its last preflight step copies the SDK into the prefix and symlinks `staged_path/google-cloud-sdk` back at it, so every `binary` source under that path failed to stage even though the SDK installed correctly. Fall back to resolving the artifact name as an exact path under the root, which traverses the symlink with a single `stat`. Absolute names, names containing `..`, and the empty name are refused so the fallback cannot resolve outside the root. `follow_links(true)` on the walk was the other option and is worse: it can loop, and a symlink in staged archive content would let the walk escape into the rest of the filesystem. The probe runs only after the walk finds nothing, so the existing exact-then-case-insensitive precedence is untouched on case-insensitive filesystems. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to The change is localized to artifact resolution and staging, with the previously identified dangling-link behavior addressed by the current implementation and tests. No actionable merge-blocking risk remains beyond normal checks. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant CaskStaging
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CaskStaging->>StageRoot: validate artifact or binary path
StageRoot->>Filesystem: resolve symlinked path
Filesystem-->>CaskStaging: durable resolved target
CaskStaging->>Filesystem: copy or create durable link
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Greptile SummaryThe PR extends brew-cask artifact lookup to resolve exact paths hidden behind flight-created symlinks while preserving existing case-match precedence.
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10547-10562: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winAdd regression cases for the fallback boundaries.
This test covers empty, parent-directory, and absolute paths. Add assertions for
"."or"./"and a path containing"__MACOSX"so the root-selection and metadata-directory protections remain covered.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@src/system/packages/brew/cask.rs`:
- Line 6075: Update the fallback lookup in find_app to apply the same __MACOSX
exclusion used by WalkDir, rejecting any path containing an exact __MACOSX
component before returning relative_artifact_path(root, name_path). Keep valid
non-metadata fallback paths unchanged.
- Around line 6080-6090: Update relative_artifact_path to require at least one
Component::Normal(_) before returning root.join(name), while preserving
rejection of empty, absolute, and parent-directory paths; this must reject "."
and "./" so they cannot resolve to root.
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In `@src/system/packages/brew/cask.rs`:
- Around line 10547-10562: Extend
relative_artifact_path_refuses_names_it_cannot_contain with regression
assertions for "." or "./" and for a path containing "__MACOSX", verifying both
are rejected with None alongside the existing empty, parent-directory, and
absolute-path cases.
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Review follow-up on the artifact fallback. The fallback returned the lexical path under the stage, which `stage_binary` read as ephemeral stage content and copied into the caskroom. For gcloud-cli that copies the launcher out of the tree it locates itself from — it derives CLOUDSDK_ROOT_DIR from the resolved path of `$0` — so staging would have succeeded while producing a broken binary. The fallback fires only for the symlinked case to begin with: when `root/name` is reachable without traversing a link, its own relative path ends with `name`, so the walk already returned it. Desymlink the result so callers get the artifact's real location, which is what distinguishes ephemeral stage content from a durable directory that outlives the install. gcloud-cli's launcher is now linked into the SDK, matching Homebrew. Also resolve both sides of `stage_binary`'s containment test. A link that stays inside the stage, reached through a stage path that is itself a symlink, resolves to a lexically different path; treating that as durable would leave a dangling binary once the stage is torn down. Two other review findings on `relative_artifact_path`: reject names with no `Normal` component, since `.` resolved to the root itself and `find_app`'s directory predicate would have accepted the whole extraction root as the bundle; and reject `__MACOSX` components, so an exact-path hit cannot reintroduce the resource-fork copies the walk deliberately skips. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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4585-4598: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winDesymlink
sourcebefore creating the durable binary link.
path_starts_with_resolved_rootcorrectly classifies a stage symlink that resolves outsidestageas durable. However, Line 4598 still creates the Caskroom link from the original lexicalsource.
find_binary_sourcecan returngenerated_caskroom_artifact(stage, ...)before it usesfind_file_artifact. If that generated path is a stage-local symlink to a durable binary, the Caskroom link points intostageand becomes dangling when staging ends.Resolve
sourceimmediately after lookup. Add a regression test for a generated Caskroom binary source that is a stage-local symlink to a durable binary.Proposed fix
let source = find_binary_source(stage, caskroom, cask, binary)?; + let source = file::desymlink_path(&source); // Ephemeral stage content has to be copied into the caskroom before theAlso applies to: 12894-12974
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In `@src/system/packages/brew/cask.rs`:
- Around line 4585-4598: Resolve or desymlink the result of find_binary_source
immediately after lookup, then use that resolved path for the durable Caskroom
link creation in the path_starts_with_resolved_root branch. Preserve the
existing copy behavior for stage content and symlink behavior for durable
binaries, and add a regression test covering a generated_caskroom_artifact that
is a stage-local symlink to a durable binary.
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Two review findings, both consequences of the lookup now resolving symlinks it traverses. Cursor Bugbot and CodeRabbit independently caught a regression in the copy-vs-symlink decision: the branch was chosen from the resolved location but the link was still created from the literal path. A stage-local symlink to a durable binary — which the walk returns directly, since it matches symlink entries by name and `is_file` follows them, and which `generated_caskroom_artifact` can also produce — was therefore linked at a path inside the stage and dangled as soon as staging tore it down. It used to be copied, so this was a regression, not a pre-existing gap. Link such a source at its real location instead. Sources already outside both roots stay verbatim. The absolute paths a pkg installer creates are linked at the path the cask metadata named, so recorded targets and receipts are unchanged. Second, `install_generic_artifact` stripped the stage prefix lexically right after accepting the source with a resolved containment check. Those two disagree whenever the source was reached through a link, which is guaranteed when `stage` itself has a symlinked ancestor: the check passes and the strip fails. Use `staged_relative_path`, which already retries against the resolved stage for exactly this reason. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Addressing CodeRabbit's outside-diff comment on The finding is correct and is fixed in 78c73e3. Cursor Bugbot flagged the same defect independently, so two reviewers converged on it — the branch decision moved to the resolved location while the link creation stayed on the literal path, dangling the caskroom entry once staging tore the stage down. The I did not apply the proposed Regression test AI-assisted — Tool: Claude Code; model: Anthropic/claude-opus-5; version: unavailable. |
Reported in discussions#10582:
gcloud-cligets all the way through preflight in v2026.8.10 and then fails at binary staging.Cause
find_artifact_matchinglocates artifacts by walking the stage withWalkDir, which defaults tofollow_links = false. An artifact reachable only through a symlink is therefore invisible to the lookup.gcloud-cli's preflight_steps end by copying the SDK into the prefix and symlinking
staged_path/google-cloud-sdkback at it. That step works — the SDK installs and the file exists behind the link — but the walk cannot enter the symlink the preflight just created, so everybinarysource beneath it fails to resolve.This is not gcloud-cli specific. Any artifact type routed through
find_artifact_matching(app,binary,pkg,font) has the same blind spot.Fix
When the walk finds nothing, resolve the artifact name as an exact path under the root. A path join traverses the symlink, and it costs one
statinstead of a tree walk.follow_links(true)on the walk was the other option and is worse:WalkDircan loop on cyclic links, and a symlink present in staged archive content would let the walk escape into the rest of the filesystem. The targeted probe only resolves the exact name the cask metadata asked for.The probe runs after the walk rather than before it. The walk's exact-match-then-case-insensitive-fallback precedence is load-bearing on case-insensitive filesystems —
artifact_lookup_prefers_exact_case_over_earlier_fallbackcovers a case where a pre-walk probe would return the wrong path on APFS. As a post-walk fallback the change can only turn a current hard failure into a success.Guards on the resolved name: it must be relative, contain no
.., contain at least oneNormalcomponent (so.cannot resolve to the extraction root itself, whichfind_app'sis_dirpredicate would have accepted as the bundle), and contain no__MACOSXcomponent (so an exact-path hit cannot reintroduce the resource-fork copies the walk deliberately skips). The caller's predicate still has to hold.Linked, not copied
The result is desymlinked, which matters more than it looks.
stage_binarydecides between copying into the caskroom and symlinking based on whether the source is stage content, andstarts_withis lexical — so the lexical path under the stage read as ephemeral and took the copy branch. That would have copied gcloud's launcher out of the tree it derivesCLOUDSDK_ROOT_DIRfrom, i.e. staging would have succeeded while producing a broken binary. Thanks to Cursor Bugbot for catching that.Desymlinking is unconditionally correct here because the fallback only ever fires for the symlinked case: when
root/nameis reachable without traversing a link, its own relative path ends withname, so the walk already returned it. Callers therefore get the artifact's real location, which is what distinguishes ephemeral stage content from a durable directory that outlives the install. gcloud-cli's launcher is now linked into the SDK, matching Homebrew.stage_binary's containment test also resolves both sides now, for a case the above doesn't cover: a link that stays inside the stage, reached through a stage path that is itself a symlink (a symlinked~/Library/Caches). The resolved source is then lexically different fromstage, and treating it as durable would leave a dangling binary once the stage is torn down.Resolving the branch decision introduced a regression of its own, caught independently by Cursor Bugbot and CodeRabbit: the branch was chosen from the resolved location while the link was still created from the literal path. A stage-local symlink to a durable binary — returned directly by the walk, which matches symlink entries by name with
is_filefollowing them, and also reachable viagenerated_caskroom_artifact— was linked at a path inside the stage and dangled once staging tore it down. That case used to be copied, so it was a regression rather than a pre-existing gap. Such a source is now linked at its real location.Sources already outside both roots stay verbatim rather than being desymlinked unconditionally. The absolute paths a pkg installer creates are still linked at the path the cask metadata named, so recorded targets that receipt and uninstall logic reads are unchanged.
One more consequence of resolving:
install_generic_artifactaccepted a source with a resolved containment check and then stripped the stage prefix lexically. Those disagree whenever the source was reached through a link, which is guaranteed whenstagehas a symlinked ancestor — the check passes and the strip fails with a bareStripPrefixError. It now usesstaged_relative_path, which already retries against the resolved stage for exactly this reason.Note that resolving through a link means the returned path can leave the stage, which is the point — gcloud-cli's link deliberately targets
$HOMEBREW_PREFIX/share/google-cloud-sdk. The trust anchor is unchanged: the name comes from sha256-pinned cask API metadata, andabsolute_binary_sourcealready resolves arbitrary absolute paths from that same metadata.Tests
artifact_lookup_resolves_through_a_flight_created_symlink— the gcloud-cli layout resolves, to the durable pathlinks_rather_than_copies_a_binary_behind_a_flight_symlink— the launcher is linked into the SDK tree, withlib/a sibling of the link targetlinks_a_stage_symlink_at_its_target_so_it_survives_teardown— deletes the stage, then asserts the staged binary still reads, so it catches the dangling link itself rather than only the path shapecopies_a_binary_whose_link_stays_inside_a_symlinked_stage— stage-internal link through a symlinked stage path is copied, not left danglingstages_generic_artifact_through_a_symlinked_stage— resolved containment and prefix strip agreeartifact_lookup_rejects_sources_that_escape_the_root—..and absolute names stay unresolvedrelative_artifact_path_refuses_names_it_cannot_contain— the guard table: empty,.,./,.., absolute,__MACOSXI verified every behavioral change in this PR by reverting it individually and confirming the corresponding test fails.
cargo test --bin mise -- caskpasses (231 tests).cargo clippy --workspace --all-features --all-targets -- -D warningsandmise run lintare clean.Verified on Linux; the change is filesystem-level and not macOS-gated, but an actual
mise bootstrap packages apply -y brew-cask:gcloud-clion macOS still wants a real run.AI-assisted — Tool: Claude Code; model: Anthropic/claude-opus-5; version: unavailable.
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