`libreportal app export <app>` writes one app to a single file;
`libreportal app import <file>` installs it here. This is the thing the
original request described as "upload or navigate to the backup file" — a
restic repository is not a file, but the want behind the phrasing is real.
The format is deliberately boring: gzipped tar of the app directory with
its .libreportal-manifest.json at the root. That manifest already records
size, images, volumes, databases and storage location, so import reuses
the phase-3 checks for free — refusing an app this version no longer
ships, or one that will not fit, before unpacking anything.
Export stops the app first. A tar of a running Postgres is a corrupt
Postgres, and a file that looks fine until you restore it is worse than a
refusal. tar runs as the owning user with --numeric-owner so container
sub-UIDs survive the round trip instead of being remapped through this
machine's /etc/passwd.
Import re-runs the normal install pipeline after unpacking, because the
compose still carries the SOURCE machine's ports, IPs and domains — that
pipeline is what re-allocates them here, and migrateUrlRewrite fixes the
host-bound CFG_* fields.
Documented throughout as a courier format, not a backup: no history, no
retention, no encryption. Importing under a different name is refused
outright rather than half-working — the CFG_<APP>_* namespace and compose
identities would all need rewriting, and `instance create` already
answers "a second copy".
Fixes a bug this surfaced: _appDirIntended did an indirect expansion on
CFG_<SLUG>_STORAGE without checking <SLUG> can be a variable name, so a
hyphenated or mistyped app name emitted "invalid variable name" and then
reported the misleading "storage location is not mounted" for an app that
simply did not exist.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Phase 2 and 4 of docs/roadmap/storage-locations.md. Apps can now be
placed on a location and moved between them.
CFG_<APP>_STORAGE lands in all 37 app templates, holding a location NAME
rather than a path: names survive a migrate to a host with different
disks, paths do not. The 11 infrastructure apps that other apps reach by
literal path (traefik, prometheus, grafana, adguard, gluetun, crowdsec,
headscale, dashy, pihole, unbound, wireguard) are pinned. libreportal
itself never gets the key — it is pinned structurally by webuiDir.
Pinning needed no second config key. "Pinned" is not a fact about a value,
it is a statement about whether the field may be edited, so it goes in the
comment beside **ADVANCED** and **DEV** as **READONLY**, and the field
factory renders those disabled. That marker earns its keep beyond this
feature: derived fields already warned in prose that editing them does
nothing (crowdsec.config:72) next to a perfectly editable input.
storage_app_config.sh keeps the comment honest — it carries the resolved
path for hand-recovery and regenerates the dropdown from the registry, but
only writes when something actually changed, since the app .config is
user-editable and lives in the container-owned tree.
app move stops the app (a live copy of a running Postgres is a corrupt
copy), snapshots it, copies, verifies, and only then removes the source.
The copy runs in libreportal-ownership because it must: app data holds
rootless sub-UID files the manager can neither read nor recreate.
Verified against two real ext4 filesystems that a cross-device move
preserves uid 231141 and the payload, and that the source survives every
refusal path — unregistered destination, the WebUI app, a traversal in the
app name, and an occupied destination.
Task titles registered in both tables, with a specific rule so a move
renders as "Nextcloud - Move to bigdisk" rather than the generic fallback
dropping the destination. lp-task-names could not be run to confirm — it
borrows the WebUI container's node and no containers are running.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Two mechanical sweeps, no behaviour change on a single-root install.
The 14 `[[ "$p" == "$containers_dir"* ]]` prefix tests that decide
manager-vs-container-user elevation become pathIsContainerData, so a file
on a second storage root is no longer misclassified as manager-owned —
which would have written it with the wrong owner and failed later, far
from the cause. The 65 references to the WebUI's own tree become
webuiDir(), which is pinned to the primary root by design.
Two traps found while doing it:
run_privileged.sh is sourced directly by init.sh without paths.sh, so it
needs a fallback. Defining one named pathIsContainerData was wrong:
generate_function_manifest.sh indexes top-level definitions, and the
resulting autoload stub would have shadowed the real multi-root
implementation with the primary-only fallback — silently classifying
every file on a second disk as manager-owned, which is exactly the bug
this sweep exists to prevent. Renamed to _runCfgIsContainerPath, which
delegates when the real one is loaded.
setup_lock.sh built its path in a top-level assignment, so it was
evaluated at source time and needed the file flagged eager. Made it a
function instead: the path resolves on call, and the file drops off
LP_EAGER_FILES entirely.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Opens the two designed seams (roadmap §8.4): _artifactResolve accepts
type:"app" (slug validated, the installed-app gate skipped — presence is
the collision policy's call), and payload.kind:"bundle" gets its own APPLY
flow. The download core (sha256 pin vs the signed index + minisig +
refuse-unsigned) is factored into _artifactDownloadVerified, shared by ops
and bundle payloads.
A bundle add: fetch → quarantine-validate → place in the definition tree
(staging + one rename, manager funnel) → lpRegenWebui → verify the app
surfaced in apps.json → applied-record with a precise undo → History.
The validator is fail-closed (traversal/absolute paths, links/devices,
single top-level dir == slug, charset, size/entry caps, set-id strip,
config TITLE+CATEGORY + compose present, bash -n every .sh) because the
definition tree is live-sourced on every CLI start — nothing lands there
before trust + quarantine pass. Collision policy: installed-live refused,
local definitions win, registry-owned re-add = reversible definition
update (prior tree packed into the undo). Revert removes/restores the
definition (refused while installed) and regens. Apps never auto-apply
(type filter kept + publisher forces auto:false).
New verb: libreportal app add <slug|artifact-id> (app_add task; resolves
by slug via appAddFromRegistry, ambiguity refused).
Also fixes the second half of the sigstate-propagation bug class:
artifactApply captured $(_artifactResolve) in a subshell, stranding
_ART_INDEX/_ART_APP/_ART_SCOPE AND the LP_INDEX_SIGSTATE the apply gate
enforces — on a signed box every apply would have refused as unsigned.
Resolve now assigns globals (_ART_JSON) and is called directly.
Source-and-mock harness: 46/46 (resolve gates, 14 validator refusals,
happy add, collision matrix, definition-update round-trip, revert
semantics, postcheck + record-failure rollbacks, apply-auto exclusion,
app add verb).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: librelad <librelad@digitalangels.vip>
The Services tab restart button POSTed to a backend endpoint that (a)
checked the app's compose path from INSIDE the webui container, where
the host's containers root isn't mounted — so every restart failed with
'Compose file not found' — and (b) queued a raw 'docker compose restart'
that the host task processor would run as the manager user, which can't
talk to the rootless daemon anyway. Errors surfaced via a bare alert().
Per-service restart now follows the exact shape of the whole-app verbs:
- CLI: 'libreportal app restart <app> [service]' — the optional service
arg makes dockerRestartApp restart just that compose service, via
dockerCommandRun (right user in rootless mode) from the app dir on the
host, where the compose file actually lives. Service names validated
against compose-legal characters before touching a shell line.
- WebUI: the button dispatches a 'service_restart' task action through
the task router (mutations-via-tasks), runs in the background with the
standard task toast + link — no page switch — and failures use the
notification system instead of alert(). Because the task runs host-
side, restarting the WebUI's own libreportal-service now works too.
- Backend: the mutating restart endpoint and its now-unused helpers are
removed; service-routes.js is read-only surface (status + log tails).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: librelad <librelad@digitalangels.vip>
Extends the install-routing spike (e5273a4) to every long-running CLI
command, so CLI and WebUI now share one execution path everywhere:
app install ← already done
app uninstall
app start / stop / restart / up / down / reload
app backup
app restore
update apply
backup app create (matches `app backup` — same end target)
Each handler now has the same shape:
if [[ "$LIBREPORTAL_TASK_EXEC" == "1" ]]; then
<inline call> # processor's recursive invocation
else
cliTaskRun "<cmd>" <type> <app> # user invocation: enqueue + follow
fi
Processor change — crontab_task_processor.sh:
Adds `export LIBREPORTAL_TASK_EXEC=1` next to LIBREPORTAL_NONINTERACTIVE.
Universal bypass: every task command the processor runs (CLI-queued OR
pre-existing WebUI-queued like `libreportal app install adguard`)
inherits the env var, so the inline branch fires and we never
re-enqueue. This also lets us drop the env-var prefix the install spike
was baking into the command string (e5273a4) — cleaner task files +
one place to think about the bypass.
`backup app schedule` (the cron-driven path that already enqueues via
createTaskFile in backup_app_schedule.sh) is left alone — different
entry point, different runtime context, already correctly task-routed.
Why route the fast ones too (start/stop/restart/up/down):
Consistency beats the ~1s task-roundtrip latency for a CLI button.
Locking now serialises a CLI `app stop foo` against a WebUI restart of
the same app; the audit trail covers every state change. Cheap to
revert any individually if the latency turns out to bother someone.
Validated live earlier with `libreportal app install dashy` — task file
written, processor dispatched, follower streamed install live, exit 0
propagated. Same machinery now powers the other 9 handlers.
Signed-off-by: librelad <librelad@digitalangels.vip>
Spike — closes the gap where the CLI install bypassed the very task system
the WebUI uses. Now both surfaces hit the same path:
user types `libreportal app install dashy`
→ CLI enqueues a task file in $TASK_DIR (identical shape to the
WebUI's createTaskFile)
→ pokes $TASK_DIR/.queue.fifo so the processor dispatches in <100ms
instead of waiting up to IDLE_POLL_SECS
→ CLI tails the task log + polls .status, exits with the task's
exit_code on terminal state
→ Ctrl-C detaches the follower without killing the task — the
WebUI's tasks panel keeps showing it
Bypass: the recursive command in the task file is prefixed
`LIBREPORTAL_TASK_EXEC=1 libreportal app install <name>`. The install
branch in cli_app_commands.sh honours that env var by running inline,
which is what the processor's eval invocation hits. No processor
changes — the bypass travels with the task.
Wins:
- one log file per install, shared by CLI + WebUI (audit trail + replay)
- locking serialises CLI + WebUI installs (no more two-frontend race)
- WebUI's "current task" indicator now reflects CLI work too
- free `--detach` for fire-and-forget queueing
New: scripts/cli/task/cli_task_run.sh
cliTaskRun <cmd> [type] [app] [--detach]
Enqueues + follows; --detach prints the task id and exits 0.
cliTaskFollow <task_id>
`tail -F` the log + jq-poll the status; returns the task's exit_code.
Designed to be reused for `libreportal task log <id>` reattach later.
Trade-off: ~200-500ms latency before the first byte (write task file,
processor wakes, opens log, follower starts tailing). Negligible for
install/update/backup — fast commands (list/status/config get) still
run inline. The current branch only changes `app install`; uninstall +
update + backup can be moved on the same pattern once this lands clean.
Signed-off-by: librelad <librelad@digitalangels.vip>
`libreportal app generate <name>` (and the menu's "g. Generate App" entry)
was broken three independent ways and incompatible with the per-app
architecture the project actually uses now:
1. Copies from $install_containers_dir/template/ which doesn't exist —
the only template/ in the tree was in scripts/unused/OLD_CONTAINERS/
and was never installed into the live tree. cp -r would just fail.
2. Every sed call used BSD/macOS syntax `sed -i '' -e …`. On Linux
(every distro this targets) the empty '' becomes a positional file
argument, so the substitutions never ran. 8 calls, all broken.
3. Even if it had run, the produced skeleton would have been a
pre-modular-tools / pre-per-port-subdomain app shape: no tools/,
no scripts/ subdir, HOST_NAME=test in the .config. Every active
containers/<app>/ today carries the modular layout the rest of the
framework expects.
Plus the recent cleanups (the prompt loop fix in 9ffc8e4, the per-port
subdomain refactor in 2e4f420) had been peeling pieces off it without
the root question — does the function still belong? — getting asked.
Delete the whole surface:
- scripts/app/app_generate.sh (157 lines, the function body)
- scripts/unused/OLD_CONTAINERS/template/ (the never-installed source
files appGenerate would have copied — stale enough to still carry
HOST_NAME=test, CFG_<X>_HOST_NAME, and 248 lines of compose template)
- menu entry "g. Generate App" + its dispatch in menu_main.sh
- "generate" case branch in cli_app_commands.sh
- `libreportal app generate` line in cli_app_header.sh
- The corresponding entries auto-drop from files_app.sh +
function_manifest.sh via regen.
New apps are added the way the catalog already grew — by hand-crafting
containers/<app>/{<app>.sh, <app>.config, docker-compose.yml,
tools/<app>.tools.json, scripts/<app>_*.sh}. Copying an existing app's
folder + renaming is the closest thing to a "generator" and it's a one-
command operation.
Net: -556 lines, no behaviour lost (the function never worked).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: librelad <librelad@digitalangels.vip>
Found while testing live backups end-to-end:
- Engine backup adapters logged to stdout, so the caller's $() snapshot-id
capture was polluted with log text — verify-after-backup then failed with
'no matching ID' on every run. Route their log lines to stderr so stdout is
only the id (restic/borg/kopia).
- 'libreportal app restore <app> --latest' (as the help advertises) and the
bare 'restore <app>' both failed: --latest was passed to restic verbatim and
unset args arrive as the literal 'empty'. Normalise both to 'latest'.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: librelad <librelad@digitalangels.vip>
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