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Converts rust from a v2 shell script to a TypeScript installer, still preferring the .xz archive over .gz, verifying it against its .sha256 and running its install.sh for cargo, rustc and the standard library. beta, nightly and nightly-YYYY-MM-DD versions are accepted, and the prepare step links ~/.cargo to the containerbase cache unless it already exists.

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  • New Features
    • Rust installation now supports stable releases and dated nightly versions on x86_64 and ARM64 systems.
    • Downloads are verified with SHA-256 checksums, and the installer uses available compressed archives.
  • Documentation
    • Updated Rust download examples to use .tar.xz archives, added stable-release checksum links, and included an x86_64 nightly example.

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@viceice viceice changed the title feat/rust typescript feat: convert the rust tool to a typescript installer Sep 25, 2026
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Rust preparation and installation now use the standard CLI service bases. The installer selects and verifies Rust archives, installs Rust components, and links and tests cargo and rustc. Tests and documentation cover the updated service behavior and archive examples.

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Rust CLI services

Layer / File(s) Summary
Rust service preparation
src/cli/tools/rust.ts, src/usr/local/containerbase/tools/v2/rust.sh, src/cli/tools/rust.spec.ts
Rust preparation uses the standard service base and initializes and links the cached .cargo directory only when the home path does not exist. The legacy Rust shell tool is removed. Tests cover preparation, including repeated preparation.
Rust archive installation and validation
src/cli/tools/rust.ts, src/cli/tools/rust.spec.ts, docs/custom-registries.md
The installer selects archives by architecture and version, prefers .xz when a checksum file exists, verifies downloads with SHA-256, and installs cargo, rustc, and the target standard library. It links and tests cargo and rustc. Tests cover installation, checksum errors, linking, version checks, and version validation. The documentation examples use .tar.xz archives, checksum URLs, and a dated nightly archive.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Refactor

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 7d5dc

Failed Rust installations may leave extracted archives in temporary storage. Resolve or explicitly accept that risk before merging.

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Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 7d5dc

The new installer keeps the download host fixed and verifies the selected archive before running it. Its failure and retry behavior merits review because installation writes to the final tool path before the whole operation succeeds.

Retained concerns

  • Low · reliability · inferred: The new Rust installer writes into the final versioned directory before installation succeeds and removes its extraction directory only on success. Failure, interruption, or overlapping attempts can therefore leave partial installation state or extracted files; the common error handler removes the version directory but does not repair links. Whether the legacy Rust path had stronger recovery guarantees is unresolved.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The visible impact is confined to Rust tool installation, its cached .cargo path, and the cargo and rustc wrappers. The examined flow does not establish a remotely accessible caller or a cross-tenant path; runtime privileges and filesystem ownership outside the shown helpers remain unverified.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Version input reaches a fixed-host download only after validation. The downloaded archive is checksum-checked before its extracted install.sh is executed; checksum retrieval from the same host is not independent proof of upstream provenance.
  • observed — Preparation preserves an existing user-home .cargo path without checking its target or ownership. Its existence helper follows symlinks, so a dangling symlink does not count as an existing path. The prior Rust preparation behavior could not be compared directly.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • inferred — In-place installation and success-only temporary cleanup leave recovery dependent on the common caller. A thrown error triggers partial rollback, but interruption does not run that handler, and link repair is not part of its rollback.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Stage each installation outside its final versioned path, publish it only after successful installation, and guarantee extraction-directory cleanup on failure. Coordinate attempts for the same version if concurrent invocation is supported.
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- Line 74: Wrap the Rust archive extraction and install.sh execution after tmp
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- Line 96: Restrict the nightly-version branch in validate to accept only values
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`--prefix=${path}`,
`--components=cargo,rust-std-${target},rustc`,
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await fs.rm(tmp, { recursive: true, force: true });

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Remove the extraction directory when installation fails.

If extraction or install.sh fails after mkdtemp, execution skips fs.rm. Outside Docker builds, the install lifecycle does not clean that directory. Repeated failures can fill temporary storage with extracted Rust archives. Put extraction and installation inside a try block, and remove tmp in finally. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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In `@src/cli/tools/rust.ts` at line 74, Wrap the Rust archive extraction and
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Skipping this here: the other installers that use a temp folder, like node, clean it up the same way, and the shell script this replaces didn't remove it on failure either. Cleaning up temp folders on failure would be a separate change across all of them.

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if (
version === 'beta' ||
version === 'nightly' ||
version.startsWith('nightly-')

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Path Traversal

Reachability: External
Exploitability: Difficult
CWE: CWE-22 — Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

Restrict dated nightly versions before constructing paths. The install command accepts the version as an argument. validate accepts any value beginning with nightly-, while versionedToolPath joins the raw version to the Rust tool directory. A value such as nightly-X/../../../dist/2024-01-01 can escape that directory, and install passes the resulting path as --prefix. Restrict this branch to nightly-YYYY-MM-DD.

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+      /^nightly-\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2}$/.test(version)
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In `@src/cli/tools/rust.ts` at line 96, Restrict the nightly-version branch in
validate to accept only values matching the dated nightly format,
nightly-YYYY-MM-DD, rather than any value beginning with nightly-. Keep
versionedToolPath and install using the validated version unchanged.

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viceice force-pushed the feat/rust-typescript branch from b1cff9e to 4e0175b Compare September 25, 2026 10:17
viceice and others added 5 commits September 25, 2026 12:22
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CI failed: Test suite failure from exit code 1 and a docker build timeout during apt package installation in the test-distro job.

Overview

Two distinct failure patterns were found across 3 logs: a build/test failure with exit code 1, and an infrastructure timeout during docker buildx bake execution.

Failures

Test Suite Failure (confidence: medium)

  • Type: test
  • Affected jobs: 108028719392, 108045030177
  • Related to change: yes
  • Root cause: The build / test-success job failed with exit code 1, which indicates a test suite failure or status check failure introduced or revealed in the PR changes.
  • Suggested fix: Run the test suite locally to identify and fix the failing test or assertion.

Docker Build Timeout (confidence: high)

  • Type: infrastructure
  • Affected jobs: 108035535497
  • Related to change: no
  • Root cause: The test-distro docker build job consistently timed out during apt package installation inside the container build due to an infrastructure or network bottleneck, causing all attempts to be cancelled.
  • Suggested fix: Investigate network proxy or apt mirror performance during docker builds, or increase the timeout limit for the docker buildx bake step if necessary.

Summary

  • Change-related failures: 1 test suite failure (job IDs 108028719392, 108045030177)
  • Infrastructure/flaky failures: 1 docker build timeout (job ID 108035535497)
  • Recommended action: Investigate and fix the failing test assertion locally while monitoring the infrastructure build timeout separately.
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🟡 Medium risk · The Rust installer changes downloads, version handling, linking, and tool setup.

Converts the Rust tool from a v2 shell script to a TypeScript installer, maintaining support for .xz archives with SHA-256 verification, beta/nightly versions, and the install.sh workflow. Cargo home is linked to the containerbase cache during prepare. No issues found.

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