repository update: ingest base-files into the package storage

[igorpecovnik]

One half of chaining the weekly stable build into the repository update (armbian/ci counterpart: see below).

Problem

armbian/ci builds base-files in a separate pipeline (build-base-files.yml) and uploads them to incoming/base-files/, deliberately decoupled so they publish even when no package build ran — armbian/build#9476.

Nothing consumes that directory. The Copy operations case handles cron/ and falls through to a no-op *) for everything else, base-files/ included. The debs just accumulate:

drwxrwsr-x 3 base-files   Aug 14      <- never ingested
drwxrwsr-x 3 community    Aug 14      <- never ingested
drwxrwsr-x 3 cron         Aug 18      <- the only consumed target
drwxrwsr-x 3 images       Aug 17      <- never ingested
drwxrwsr-x 3 nightly      Aug 10      <- never ingested
drwxrwsr-x 3 stable       Aug  9      <- never ingested

cron is recent precisely because it is the only branch that does real work and deletes its source afterwards.

Change

Copy incoming/base-files/{debs,debs-beta} into STORAGE_PATH — the directory repo.sh reads (INPUT_DIR="\${STORAGE_PATH}/\${REPO_NAME}") — on every run, whatever target triggered it. Same treatment external packages already get.

Copied, not moved: these are small and versioned, rsync skips identical files, and keeping the source means a failure later in the pipeline can't lose them.

Scope

Only base-files. stable/, nightly/, community/ and apps/ are still unwired — including the stable/ branch, which currently runs copy-kernel-packages.sh in DRY_RUN=true against incoming/nightly/debs-beta/ writing to /tmp/x. Those need a policy decision per target and are deliberately left for a separate change.

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Walkthrough

The Copying job now synchronizes .deb files from incoming/base-files/debs and incoming/base-files/debs-beta. The workflow preserves directory structure, skips missing source directories, and records rsync transfer failures in the workflow summary.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 27f58

The workflow now copies base-files packages into package storage, but transfer failures can be treated as success and allow a partial repository to be published. This merge-readiness risk should be fixed before merging.

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Check name	Status	Explanation
Description check	✅ Passed	The description clearly explains why and how the change ingests base-files packages and defines the intentional scope limits.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly summarizes the main change: ingesting base-files packages into package storage during repository updates.
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In @.github/workflows/infrastructure-repository-update.yml:
- Around line 197-204: Update the rsync command in the infrastructure repository
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[igorpecovnik]

Fixed the error handling on the new copy — the finding was right, and the problem was worse than it looked.

The block was written as:

rsync ... 2>&1 | tee -a "$GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY" || echo "Warning: ... (code 23)"

With the pipe, $? is tee's status, not rsync's, and this step sets no pipefail — so the || branch is effectively unreachable and every rsync failure was silent, not just code 23. Copying would go green, prepare-repos → update-repository would run, and repo.sh would publish a storage tree missing those packages to every mirror.

Now it reads PIPESTATUS[0] and branches:

rsync exit	behaviour
0	continue
23	warn and continue — expected, since --no-perms/--no-group on the shared-group storage means some attributes genuinely don't transfer
anything else	::error:: + exit 1, stopping the run before the partial copy can be published

Verified all three paths behave as described. update-repository is reachable only through Copying → prepare-repos → fix-permissions → prepare-beta, so failing this step does block publication.

Not changed: the pre-existing cron/ and external rsyncs in the same step have the identical | tee ... || echo pattern and the same blind spot. I left them alone to keep this PR to base-files ingest — happy to fix them in a follow-up, though cron/ is the one that matters most since it rm -rfs its source afterwards.

[igorpecovnik]

Switched from copy to move, as requested.

Done with rsync --remove-source-files rather than a trailing rm -rf, because the two differ exactly where it matters: rsync removes only the files it confirmed on the receiving side, so a partial transfer (exit 23, which this step tolerates) leaves whatever didn't land in place for the next run. A blanket rm -rf after a 23 would delete packages that never reached storage.

--remove-source-files only removes files, so emptied directories are pruned with find -type d -empty -delete, then the drop box itself with a plain rmdir — a no-op while anything remains, which keeps a partial transfer visible instead of hiding it.

Verified on a fixture:

before                                   after
in/base-files/debs/trixie/*.deb   →      st/debs/trixie/*.deb        (moved, structure kept)
in/base-files/debs-beta/pkg.deb   →      st/debs-beta/pkg.deb        (moved, dir removed)
in/base-files/debs/README.txt     →      stays                       (never matched the filter)

The README case is the intended behaviour: anything the --include='*.deb' filter didn't transfer is left alone, and its directory survives with it.