A release published an image and nothing else, so there was nothing for a
host install to download -- the only way to get the binary was to pull the
image and copy it out, which makes "install without Docker" depend on
Docker.
Each release now carries inbuxa-linux-amd64.tar.gz, inbuxa-linux-arm64.tar.gz
and SHA256SUMS, named as stalwart-migrator's are.
They are taken out of the image this pipeline just pushed rather than
compiled again. A second Rust build per architecture is the slowest thing
here, and it would leave two artifacts that are meant to be the same build
and only probably are. Extracting makes that identity a fact: the binary in
the tarball is the file the image runs. `docker create` starts nothing, so
copying a file out of an arm64 image on an amd64 runner needs no emulation.
One thing the extraction cannot carry: the image grants the binary
cap_net_bind_service, and a tar archive does not keep that xattr. The
release body says so, and says what to do instead -- setcap, or
AmbientCapabilities in the unit -- because a server that cannot bind 25 and
does not say why is a bad first hour.
Checked by hand against v2026.9.23 before this landed: both architectures
extract to the right ELF, and the amd64 binary runs on a bare Debian 13 with
every library resolved and reports its own version.
publish.yml replaces .github/workflows/publish.yml: on a v* tag it checks the
tag equals v<brand_version!> and is on main, builds the linux/amd64+arm64
image in one buildx run (the Dockerfile already cross-compiles, so only its
final stage goes through QEMU), pushes :<version> and :latest to the
registry, links the package, and creates the tag's release if it has none.
weekly-release.yml ports .github/workflows/release.yml: bump brand_version!
through the contents API, then create the release and so the tag, which
starts publish.yml. It only dry-runs until RELEASE_LIVE=1 and a
RELEASE_TOKEN secret exist.
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