EL9/Fedora containers ship without diffutils and openSUSE Leap without
tar, which failed 4 of the 7 cross-distro unit jobs:
- files_identical() in stubs.sh: cmp when available, sha256sum
(coreutils, everywhere) otherwise
- the two tarball-fixture tests skip cleanly when tar is absent
(harness's existing skip convention; proven on the other distros)
- the t16/t16r assertion lists are now && chains: bash suppresses
set -e inside an if-condition subshell, so sequential statements
only gated on the LAST one — the cmp-less EL9 run proved it by
passing t16r vacuously while cmp exited 127
Verified in the actual images: rockylinux:9 65p/0f/0s,
opensuse/leap:15.5 61p/0f/4s (was 63p/2f and 61p/2f).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The July 2 outage function had a unit test — with a populated fixture
only. This encodes the missing net:
- fresh-minimal-box fixture loop: every observation/discovery/snapshot/
report function in update.sh (17) and install.sh (16) must survive a
zero-app box under set -Eeuo pipefail; policy comment requires new
functions to be appended
- scripts/test/stubs.sh: shared failing-stub factories (systemctl exit
5, docker fail/empty, curl exit 22, GitHub rate-limit JSON)
- assertion sweep: 43 bare capture-then-compare sites now include exit
status in the assertion
- best-effort contract test: the run block's real APP_BASELINE ->
report chain exits 0 on a fresh box AND on a genuine regression
- fix(update): the loop immediately caught report_failure's trailing
'[ -n $UPDATE_LOG ] && printf' returning 1 when UPDATE_LOG is empty
(same species as the outage) — converted to if, added to the loop
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
