docker/README.md and docs/docker-self-update.md both already point operators
at "stop the stack, rebuild, restart" for anything the in-app updater refuses
to apply (a changed server.Dockerfile, a changed docker-compose.yaml, or a
new required .env key) — but that was a manual, hand-typed procedure with no
script of its own, unlike every other start/update path this deployment has.
docker/Update-Codeman.sh scripts it: `docker compose down`, then an
unconditional `docker compose build --no-cache` (a major update should be
certain of what actually ships, not reuse whatever layers happened to be
cached), then hands off to the existing Start-Codeman.sh for the same
careful PUID/PGID, override-file and fingerprint handling every other start
already goes through — rather than reimplementing any of that by hand and
risking it drifting out of step.
An optional --volumes/-v flag also removes the codeman-node-modules/
codeman-dist named volumes, the scripted form of the "Resetting the build
artefacts" procedure docs/docker-self-update.md already documents by hand.
Safe: those two are the only named volumes this stack declares; application
data and case workspaces are host bind mounts, never touched by
`docker compose down` either way.
Docs updated: a "Major updates" section in docker/README.md, and a pointer
from docs/docker-self-update.md's existing "Resetting the build artefacts"
troubleshooting entry.
Tests: extended test/docker-entrypoint.test.ts (the existing home for
Start-Codeman.sh's own static checks) with a bash -n parse check, the
down-before-build-before-handoff ordering, the --volumes flag's effect,
unrecognised-argument handling, and byte-for-byte agreement with
Start-Codeman.sh's own override-file resolution logic (so `down` here and
`up` there can never target different Compose files).
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codeman-node-modules and codeman-dist (docker-compose.yaml) are seeded
from the image only while empty, so a rebuilt image's fresh dist/
node_modules sat unused behind old volume content until something
cleared it. The in-app self-updater never hit this (it rebuilds INSIDE
the running container, into the very volume already in use), but a
`docker compose build` triggered from outside it — Start-Codeman.sh,
after a manual `git pull` — did: the container came back up looking
unchanged, serving stale compiled routes against current source.
Start-Codeman.sh now compares the checkout's HEAD commit and
package-lock.json hash against a recorded marker
(docker-build-source.json) and clears just the affected volume(s)
before its own --build when either moved.
The in-place self-update path writes that same marker after a
successful build, so the two mechanisms agree on what the volumes
currently reflect — without it, the next plain Start-Codeman.sh run
would see the HEAD self-update just checked out, not recognise it as
already accounted for, and wipe the volumes self-update just correctly
rebuilt right back to the older baked image.
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#373 restarts the Compose container by exiting the server, which is right for
the shipped deployment: `restart: unless-stopped` relaunches it. The updater
verified that policy through the Docker socket and, when it could not (no
socket mounted), failed open and exited anyway. Failing open is the correct
choice for the GATE, where refusing would block every install without a
socket, but not for the kill: a container the daemon does not restart goes
down for good, with no UI left to recover it from. That is exactly the case a
plain `docker run` of this image without `--restart` produces, and the image
sets CODEMAN_IN_CONTAINER=1 itself, so it takes the container path.
The decision now happens server-side, where both the socket and the Compose
env are reachable, and rides down to the script as `--restart-by-exit 0|1`.
It is 1 when the Compose file declared `CODEMAN_RESTART_BY_EXIT=1` (added there
and only there, since that file is what sets the restart policy; the image ENV
deliberately does not) or when the daemon confirmed an auto-restart policy.
Otherwise the build still lands, the status becomes
`completed-needs-manual-restart` with the `docker restart` hint, and the
server keeps running. The shipped deployment is unchanged in effect: with the
socket it was already confirmed, and without it the declaration now covers it.
Also: a root-run `Start-Codeman.sh` (common on Unraid) created the
fingerprint baseline's `.codeman` directory before the container's first start
and left it root-owned, which the unprivileged server could then never write
its own state into. It is chowned to PUID:PGID when running as root.
Verified with a real image build of the merged tree (classic builder; this
box's BuildKit lacks buildx): runs as uid 1000, tsc/esbuild and the toolchain
present, the four CLIs at their pins, docker/.env absent, and `docker inspect
$HOSTNAME` returns the restart policy through the mounted socket as that user.
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Codeman running under docker/docker-compose.yaml lost the ability to update
itself from App Settings -> Updates. The image had no .git (excluded by
.dockerignore), so the install reported as "unknown"; there was no init system
for detectSupervisor() to find; the runtime stage had neither devDependencies
nor a build toolchain; and a pull into the baked /opt/codeman would have landed
in the container's writable layer and been discarded by the next `up`.
Restore it through configuration rather than a second updater, so the release
channel, auto-stash, status file and boot reconcile are all reused unchanged:
- The checkout Compose builds from is bind-mounted over /opt/codeman, so the
update's git checkout and rebuild land on the host and survive recreation.
- The restart is the server exiting; `restart: unless-stopped` relaunches the
container on the new dist/. This is the one supervisor whose updater does NOT
outlive the restart, which is safe only because the terminal "restarting"
marker is written first.
- node_modules and dist are named volumes over the bind mount, so
container-compiled native modules never enter the host checkout.
- The runtime image keeps devDependencies and gains python3/make/g++, since
`npm run build` is tsc + esbuild and node-pty has no Linux prebuild.
An in-place container update applies code only, because a restart reuses the
existing image and config. evaluateEnvironmentGate() reads the target release's
own files with `git show <tag>:<path>` and refuses when server.Dockerfile or
docker-compose.yaml changed, when .env.example gained keys the user's .env
lacks, or when the restart policy would not bring the container back. The
missing-key check matters most: Compose resolves an unset ${VAR} to the empty
string and starts anyway, so a new required setting would otherwise arrive as a
silently blank variable. Every unknown fails open, and the gate is re-evaluated
server-side on POST /api/system/update.
The four global agent CLIs are pinned, because an unpinned CLI bump is the one
environment change no diff-derived gate can see; pinning turns it into a
Dockerfile change the gate already detects.
Adds test/docker-compose-env-parity.test.ts as the merge-side guard (every
compose ${VAR} has an .env.example entry and the reverse) and
test/docker-self-update.test.ts for the pure gate decisions.
Documented in docs/docker-self-update.md.
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