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The install script now downloads with wget when curl is missing, and extracts the release zip with busybox, 7z, 7zz, 7za, bsdtar, or python3 when unzip is missing. bun upgrade probes the same extractors and sets the executable bit after extraction, because python3's zipfile module does not restore it.
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In `@src/runtime/cli/install.sh`:
- Around line 65-68: Update the extractor-selection loop to validate that
BusyBox provides the unzip applet before assigning it to unzip_cmd; if the
applet is absent, continue searching so later extractors such as python3 can be
selected. Preserve the existing selection behavior for standalone unzip and
other supported commands.
In `@src/runtime/cli/upgrade_command.rs`:
- Line 94: Update the BusyBox extraction configuration’s restores_mode field
from true to false so the later chmod runs when ZIP modes are not restored. Keep
the surrounding extraction behavior unchanged.
- Around line 77-99: Update extractor selection in find_unzip_argv to validate
that a discovered BusyBox binary supports the unzip applet before selecting the
BusyBox UnzipProgram. Keep restores_mode handling unchanged, and allow selection
to continue to the later extractor when the applet is unavailable.
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Add a source lint that checks the probe order and the error text in install.sh against the UNZIP_PROGRAMS table. Update the install docs and the comment that explains why bun upgrade shells out.
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bun upgrade and install.sh skip a busybox that lacks the unzip applet. bsdtar runs with --no-same-owner. bun upgrade sets the mode of the extracted binary through the staging directory handle and removes the staging directory when that fails. The tests cover every extractor that exists on the host and release their temp dirs.
| /// A program that can extract the release zip on POSIX into the current | ||
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| /// Probe order. Must match the `for cmd in ...` loop in `install.sh`. | ||
| /// The vendored libarchive has no zip reader, so an external program extracts it. |
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| // `python3 -m zipfile` does not restore the file mode, and | ||
| // some busybox builds do not either. |
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| bsdtar --no-same-owner -xf "$exe.zip" -C "$bin_dir" | ||
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| python3 -m zipfile -e "$exe.zip" "$bin_dir" |
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🟡 nit (optional) (security hardening): on hosts that fall back to python3, the installer now imports Python modules from whatever directory the user happens to run it in. install.sh:192 runs python3 -m zipfile, and -m puts the current directory first on sys.path, so a zipfile.py or a shadowing stdlib name such as types.py in the cwd runs with the user's privileges. Fix: run the interpreter isolated (python3 -I -m zipfile ..., available since Python 3.4) so neither the cwd nor PYTHONPATH/user site-packages can substitute modules; the bun upgrade row in upgrade_command.rs:118-122 runs from a private staging dir so it only needs the same flag for consistency.
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The base branch never spawns python3. This PR makes python3 -m zipfile -e "$exe.zip" "$bin_dir" the extractor on hosts without unzip, busybox, 7z or bsdtar (the PR names Fedora/Ubuntu/Debian minimal images as the common case). Python's -m handling is documented as 'the current directory will be added to the start of sys.path'. curl -fsSL https://bun.sh/install | bash is run from an arbitrary cwd, often a freshly cloned project. runpy then resolves zipfile and everything it imports (types, enum, shutil, struct, threading, importlib.util are not preloaded at interpreter start) against the cwd before the stdlib, so a same-named .py file in that directory executes. Cloning a repository does not otherwise run its contents; running the installer inside it now does, on python3-fallback hosts only. PYTHONPATH and PYTHONSTARTUP are inherited as well. -I disables the cwd entry, env-var overrides and user site-packages in one flag. bun upgrade (upgrade_command.rs:118-122, spawned with cwd = the 0o700 staging dir created at :829) is not exposed through the cwd, so the fix is needed at…
Verification: nit (security hardening, narrow trigger) — triggers when a host has none of unzip/busybox-with-unzip/7z/7zz/7za/bsdtar but has python3, and the user runs curl … | bash from a directory containing a zipfile.py/zipfile/ package or a shadow of a non-frozen stdlib module that zipfile imports (e.g. shutil.py, struct.py). Mechanism verified: the new extractor arm in…
| let unzip_result = match spawn_sync::spawn(&spawn_sync::Options { | ||
| argv: build_argv(&unzip_argv), | ||
| argv: unzip_argv, | ||
| envp: None, | ||
| cwd: Box::<[u8]>::from(&tmpdir_path_buf[..tmpdir_path_len]), | ||
| stdin: spawn_sync::SyncStdio::Inherit, |
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🟡 nit (optional): users whose only extractor is 7z/7zz/7za see 7-Zip's banner and file listing in the middle of bun upgrade output, which the base's unzip -q never printed. The extractor spawn at upgrade_command.rs:926 inherits stdout for every table row, while install.sh:186 silences the same 7z invocation with >/dev/null. Fix: keep extractor stdout quiet for every row, e.g. use SyncStdio::Ignore for stdout at :926 (stderr can stay inherited so failures remain visible), or add a per-row stdout setting to UnzipProgram.
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UNZIP_PROGRAMS rows for 7z, 7zz and 7za (upgrade_command.rs:90-104) pass only x -y; 7-Zip has no quiet switch and always prints its version banner, 'Scanning the drive for archives', 'Extracting archive: bun.zip', the entry list and 'Everything is Ok' to stdout. The spawn at :921-931 sets stdout: spawn_sync::SyncStdio::Inherit, so that text lands on the user's terminal between the download progress and the 'Upgraded.' line. The shell installer for the same case, install.sh:186, appends >/dev/null. On the base branch only unzip -q -o ran, which prints nothing on success. Trigger: a host with no unzip/busybox but with p7zip or 7-Zip installed (the population this PR adds support for). Consequence: noisy, inconsistent upgrade output; no functional failure.
Verification: nit — triggers when find_unzip_argv selects one of the 7-Zip rows (host PATH has no unzip/busybox-with-unzip but has 7z, 7zz or 7za), a configuration the PR explicitly supports. Mechanism verified: /home/claude/bun/src/runtime/cli/upgrade_command.rs:90-104 define the 7z/7zz/7za rows with before: &[b"x", b"-y"] and no output-suppressing switch (-bso0/-bsp0), and the spawn…
| error "Failed to download bun from \"$bun_uri\"" | ||
| case $download_cmd in | ||
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| curl --fail --location --progress-bar --output "$exe.zip" "$bun_uri" |
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🟡 nit (optional): users installing with the new wget fallback are left with an empty ~/.bun/bin/bun.zip whenever the download fails, which the curl path does not leave. wget -O at install.sh:170 creates the output file before the request, so a 404 (mistyped tag) or a network error still leaves a zero-byte $exe.zip in $bin_dir, and the error at install.sh:172 exits without removing it. Fix: on download failure remove the partial $exe.zip for both downloaders (e.g. esac || { rm -f "$exe.zip"; error ...; }), or download to a temp name and move it into place only on success.
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install.sh:56-62 picks wget when curl is absent. install.sh:170 runs wget -q -O "$exe.zip" "$bun_uri". GNU wget opens the -O target for writing before it sends the request, so the file exists even when the server answers 404 or the connection fails. wget then exits 8 (or 4), the case at…
Verification: nit. Trigger: host without curl but with GNU wget (install.sh:56-62 selects download_cmd=wget), and the download fails (404 from a mistyped tag, DNS/connection error). Mechanism: install.sh:173 runs wget -q -O "$exe.zip" "$bun_uri"; GNU wget's documented -O semantics are shell-redirection-like ("file will be truncated immediately, and all downloaded content will be written there"),…
`bun upgrade` can run one of seven extractors. The spawn error and the exit error said "unzip" for each of them. They now name the program that ran, for example `python3 failed (exit code: 1)`. #16881 had this. Co-authored-by: Doug Coleman <doug.coleman@gmail.com>
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In `@src/runtime/cli/upgrade_command.rs`:
- Line 913: Update the missing-extractor error in the `find_unzip_argv` handling
to state that no supported archive extractor was found, rather than requiring
`unzip`; keep the message accurate for all supported extractors, including `7z`,
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`find_unzip_argv` compared `program.bin` with `b"busybox"` to decide when to check for the unzip applet. The mordant `stringly_state` lint reports that comparison as an enum written as a string. The busybox row now names its applet. The probe and the argv both read it from the row.
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Fixes #43642
Problem
unzip is required to install bunon a host withoutunzip, and withFailed to download bunon a host withoutcurl. Minimal containers and fresh distro images often lack both (src/runtime/cli/install.sh:56,:149).bun upgradehas the same hard dependency:Failed to locate "unzip" in PATH. bun upgrade needs "unzip" to work.(src/runtime/cli/upgrade_command.rs:820).Fix
install.shdownloads withcurl, or withwget -q -Owhencurlis missing (BusyBox wget accepts these flags). It probesunzip,busybox,7z,7zz,7za,bsdtar, andpython3in that order and uses the first one it finds. Both probes run before the script creates any directory.bun upgradeprobes the same extractors through anUnzipProgramtable. Both probes skip abusyboxwhose--listhas nounzipapplet.bsdtarruns with--no-same-owner. After extraction the upgrade sets mode0755on the binary through the staging directory handle, becausepython3 -m zipfiledoes not restore the file mode. Its spawn and exit errors name the extractor that ran..zip. Jarred said on Use Tar instead of Unzip #1740 that zip is needed for macOS signing. Tar.gz assets are tracked in Provide releases as tar file #10211.test/cli/install/install-sh.test.ts(new) andtest/cli/install/bun-upgrade.test.ts(newdescribe, and a case for the failure message). Both run one case per extractor that exists on the host, plus the wget and the two error cases. The python3 and wget cases fail on main. Both files pass withbun bd test. A source lint,test/internal/source-lints/install-extractors.test.ts, checks that the two extractor lists and error texts stay equal.python3. It is the only fallback that CI can exercise, and it is the most common one on minimal Debian, Ubuntu, and Fedora images.Background
bun.sh/installservessrc/runtime/cli/install.shdirectly. The script computes the target name, downloadsbun-<target>.zipfrom GitHub releases, extracts it, and adds the binary to the shell rc file.bun upgradedoes the same download in Rust and shells out tounzipso that the extracted binary keeps the attributes needed for codesigning.PATHwith symlinks to a few programs and serve a fake zip from a localBun.serve. This is how they make the host look like it lackscurlorunzip.Notes
The issue also asked for an nvm-style
PROFILEvariable to skip rc-file edits. That is out of scope here. The script also spawnsbun completions, which writes to the rc file on its own, so aPROFILE=/dev/nullknob would not deliver what it promises. The rc-file opt-out is tracked in #1272 and PR #24968 (BUN_SKIP_SHELL_CONFIG).Prior work: three older PRs proposed these fallbacks first. #16881 by erg has the extractor list that this PR uses (
busybox,7z,7zz,7za,bsdtar) forinstall.shand forbun upgrade. A review there asked for an error text that names the alternatives. The extractor name in thebun upgradefailure messages also comes from #16881. #14111 by sequencerr has thebusybox unzipfallback. #21785 by bnjmnjrk has the wget fallback. It passes--show-progress, which BusyBox wget rejects (unrecognized option '--show-progress'), so this PR useswget -q -O. None of the three applies to the tree now: the script moved tosrc/runtime/cli/, and #16881 changes the Zig version ofbun upgrade. This PR covers all three.The old comment in
upgrade_command.rssaid that bun shells out tounzipto keep xattrs for codesigning. The actual reason is that the vendored libarchive only compiles in its tar reader since #39484, so there is no in-process zip reader. The comment now says that.makeZipStoredmoved frombun-upgrade.test.tsintotest/cli/install/fake-release.tsso both test files can use it.Extractor coverage: every extractor ran for both entry points on a Debian 13 host.
unzipandpython3come from the host. The others are built from source: BusyBox 1.36.1, 7-Zip 24.09 (7zz, also linked as7zand7za), andbsdtar3.8.9 fromvendor/libarchive. The wget case also passes with BusyBox wget. The fall-through for a busybox without the unzip applet ran against a stub busybox.Suites run:
test/cli/install/bun-upgrade.test.ts,test/cli/install/install-sh.test.ts.no test proof · iteration 0 · platform-specific test(s) that do not run on this machine, deferring to CI, which covers all platforms: test/cli/install/bun-upgrade.test.ts