Second field report on 0.20.0's winget path, and independent of the conflict
abort in 37781a61: an INTERACTIVE install through UniGetUI dies before the
wizard with Inno's "Error creating log file: The filename, directory name, or
volume label syntax is incorrect."
`<LOGPATH>` is winget's own token and the only spelling it replaces — the
schema this manifest declares says so verbatim ("<LOGPATH> token can be included
in the switch value so that winget will replace the token with user provided
path"). We shipped `|LOGPATH|`, which is not a token, so winget passed the
literal string to Inno; `|` is not legal in a Windows filename, and Inno refuses
before doing anything else.
Worse than the conflict abort in two ways: it is not confined to silent installs
— it fires in EVERY mode for any caller that requests a log — and UniGetUI
requests one by default, so a GUI user cannot install at all. Confirmed against
the live source, which is serving the broken switch to everyone right now:
curl -s https://winget.punktfunk.unom.io/packageManifests/unom.PunktfunkHost
→ "Log": "/LOG=\"|LOGPATH|\""
Guarded by the suite that exists for exactly this class of defect (a wrong
response shape does not fail loudly — winget just says "no package found"). The
new check accepts an absent Log switch, requires <LOGPATH> when present, and
rejects any |TOKEN| spelling. Mutation-verified: restoring |LOGPATH| fails the
check naming the offending value, and the corrected manifest passes 29/29.
⚠ Fixing the template does NOT fix the live catalogue: it is derived from the
manifest trio attached to each release, so the corrected switch only reaches
users when a release carries it.
`winget install unom.PunktfunkHost` after adding the source, and `winget upgrade`
from then on. Windows had no update path at all before this — no self-update, no
package manager — so keeping a host current meant noticing a release and
re-running an installer by hand.
Ships the manifest trio in winget-pkgs' own format (so submitting upstream later
is a copy, not a rewrite) plus a release-time generator that substitutes only
version, URL, hash and release-notes link. Everything reviewable — the silent
switches, the agreements, the installation notes — stays in the checked-in
templates rather than buried in a generator.
Silent installs deliberately take the SAME task defaults the wizard shows: a
per-channel default is a support trap. The disclosures the wizard puts on screen
travel as manifest Agreements instead, shown before install and requiring
acceptance — VB-Audio's bundling grant wants the user to see VB-CABLE's origin
and donationware status, and a silent install shows them nothing otherwise. The
console password can only be pointed at, never printed: it is generated per
install and the notes are fixed at publish time.
Self-hosted rather than the community repo, which gates on Defender/SmartScreen
validation the self-signed installer cert would not clear today. The source is
three endpoints — /information, /manifestSearch, /packageManifests/{id}. The
reference implementation's other twenty are its admin API for mutating a
CosmosDB; a catalogue generated at release time has nothing to mutate.
It runs on unom-1 as a stock bun image with the two .mjs files bind-mounted, the
same shape as the flatpak server, so there is no image to build or pull. The
catalogue is derived from the RELEASES rather than local files: winget resolves
--version and upgrade against the version list, so a source that only knew the
newest release could neither pin an older one nor show an upgrade path from it.
That also leaves no state to drift — re-running the build reproduces it exactly.
NormalizedPackageNameAndPublisher is declared unsupported on purpose. winget
derives it client-side with its own normalization, and a near-miss silently
mis-correlates an installed host; ProductCode is exact and Inno gives us one.
28 checks drive the handler directly, and CI gates on them before anything
reaches the box — a wrong response shape does not fail loudly, it just makes
winget report "no package found".
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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