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fix(v3/updater): stage beside the target and copy across filesystems on Unix - #6200
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Included review availability: This review used your included allowance. Your plan provides up to 10 included reviews per hour; 8 remain after this review. WalkthroughThe updater stages downloads beside the resolved executable or macOS application bundle. On Unix, replacement handles cross-device rename failures by copying through a temporary sibling. Tests cover staging location, cleanup, and replacement failure cases. ChangesUpdater file replacement
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Change: Bug fix Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to The updater changelog accurately describes the change. No issue identified in this review prevents merging after normal checks. Security Architecture ReviewSecurity architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to The change improves cross-filesystem updates and preserves the previous application during ordinary copy failures. A failure after installing a new app bundle can leave rollback incomplete, although a separate backup normally supports recovery. No new attacker-controlled entrypoint or privilege expansion was established; deployment-specific permissions and interruption recovery remain uncertain. Retained concerns
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A failed intermediate cleanup can cause directory payloads to be merged with stale files before installation.
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What changed in this PR
Stages updater artifacts beside their target and adds Unix cross-filesystem copy fallback.
Changes:
- Resolve the executable or macOS bundle before staging.
- Copy, sync, and rename when Unix moves return
EXDEV. - Add regression tests and update documentation.
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v3/UNRELEASED_CHANGELOG.md |
Records the updater fix. |
v3/pkg/updater/updater.go |
Updates staging-field documentation. |
v3/pkg/updater/updater_test.go |
Tests target-adjacent staging and cleanup. |
v3/pkg/updater/spawn.go |
Adds shared target resolution. |
v3/pkg/updater/helper_unix.go |
Adds cross-device copy fallback. |
v3/pkg/updater/helper_unix_test.go |
Tests file and directory fallback. |
v3/pkg/updater/download.go |
Creates staging beside the update target. |
docs/mpress/content/guides/updater.md |
Documents staging permissions. |
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Review comments at @v3/pkg/updater/helper_unix.go:
- Around line 46-57: Update renameOrCopy to sync the parent directory of dst
after rename(tmp, dst), and return any directory open, sync, or close error
before removing src. Use filepath.Dir(dst) to identify the directory.
- Around line 41-45: Update renameOrCopy so the existing destination is kept
aside until the EXDEV copy and final rename succeed. Restore the aside
immediately if either operation fails, following the Windows implementation’s
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Description
Updates were staged in
os.MkdirTemp("")and the Unix helper did a plainos.Rename, which fails withEXDEVwhen/tmpis a tmpfs (the Fedora default), so the swap never completed.Updates now stage in a
wails-update-*directory beside the installed binary or.appbundle, and the Unix swap falls back to copy, fsync and rename onEXDEV, as Windows already does.Type of change
How Has This Been Tested?
Added unit tests for the EXDEV fallback in
helper_unix_test.go, and updated the staging-location assertions inupdater_test.go.cd v3 && go test ./pkg/updater/... && go vet ./pkg/updater/...pass on this branch alone;gofmt -lon the changed files is empty.Test Configuration
Fedora Linux 44 Workstation, amd64, GNOME on Wayland. Only the
pkg/updaterunit tests were run for this change, so nowails doctoroutput applies.Checklist:
website/src/pages/changelog.mdxwith details of this PR (v3 changelog entries are added automatically)An entry is added to
v3/UNRELEASED_CHANGELOG.mdand the updater guide is updated.Overlap with sibling PRs: this is one of three independent updater PRs from the same author (EXDEV staging, AppImage self-path,
OnUpdateApplied). Each branch is based on master and passes on its own. They touch the same files in a few places (spawn.go,helper.go,updater.go, the guide, and the changelog), including the smallresolveTargethelper that two of them also add, so whichever merges second may need a trivial textual rebase.The code and this description were written with an AI assistant (Claude). I reviewed the diff and ran the tests listed above.
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