EDRDG's licence asks of a server showing its dictionaries that it update
them at least monthly. The instance now does it alone: a `dictionaries`
service in compose, built from the curator (halkyon_learn_curator/
Dockerfile, its own unprivileged user 10001, 1 GB at most), runs `curate
update --every 7`, downloading EDRDG's files of the day once its files are
a week old and replacing them in a volume the server mounts read-only.
The curator never enters the server's image or process (decided
2026-10-09: a container of its own, weekly). The server rereads the
folder daily at 04:07 (DictionaryReloadFutureCall), loading what changed,
and loads now run one at a time. redeploy.sh builds both images.
An operator who'd rather supply the files removes the service and mounts
deploy/dictionaries/ into the server, as compose.yaml says.
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They are the way back from a deploy, not backups: those go off-site (3c).
Every file people keep is in each dump, so fewer dumps leave room for more
files (decided 2026-10-02).
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Two of Serverpod's own conventions, as its v4 project template and roles have them.
CI now runs `serverpod generate` (CLI pinned to the server's Serverpod version, like
the template's workflow) and fails if the committed generated code differs from its
output, so a model or endpoint changed without regenerating can't reach main. Checked in
a clean clone: today's code passes, a committed stale generated file fails.
redeploy.sh now applies the migrations in a run of their own, with Serverpod's
maintenance role (--role=maintenance --apply-migrations), after the dump and before
switching to the new server. That run exits with 0 only if the migrations worked, and
each migration is one transaction, so a failing one stops the deploy while the old
server keeps serving; before, the new server applied them at start and would have
crash-looped. Tested on the local stack: a deploy through the new step, and a failing
run (wrong database password) that exits with 1 after six attempts. AGENTS.md says
migrations must keep the old server working until the switch.
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Pushes to main were deployed by hand. Now Forgejo Actions runs tool/check.sh on every
push, and a green main deploys learn.halkyon.eu by itself.
The runner (forgejo-runner v13.1.0) runs on sahaquiel as the unprivileged user `runner`,
with jobs directly on the host: containers would take Docker access, which is root on the
production server, and Forgejo warns that host jobs have no isolation from the runner's
user. So its systemd unit (deploy/runner/forgejo-runner.service) provides it: /home and
the Docker socket invisible, Docker's container networks unreachable, no capabilities,
two cores and 3 GB at most, lowest priority. It is registered to this repository only,
with the UUID and token of Forgejo's "Create new runner" (the old `register` is
deprecated); the token reaches it as a systemd credential. The configuration
(deploy/runner/config.yml) was dry-run against v13.1.0, the unit rates 1.8 in
`systemd-analyze security`. CI runs on pushes only: a pull request from a fork would run
its code on the production server.
The deploy job calls deploy/redeploy.sh as `deploy`, through a key that authorized_keys
pins to that script and to connections from sahaquiel itself. The script deploys the
commit CI checked while it is still main's tip, as a fast-forward, only if every new
commit is signed by a key in deploy/allowed-signers (as the deployed checkout lists
them), after dumping the database (the last ten are kept), and fails unless the server
answers afterwards; a failure puts the checkout back. Tested against the local stack:
refusals of a malformed argument, a stale commit, a forged unsigned commit and a
non-fast-forward, a real deploy with its dump, a repeat, and a failed build.
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