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767e67ca's per-channel mechanics were correct; they were aimed at the wrong binary. Each one is restored here pointed at punktfunk-encode-worker, and every host-side removal from #136 stays verbatim. All grants remain best-effort — an uncapped worker still encodes, at default priority, so a failed setcap must never fail an install. * Arch: setcap in post_install AND post_upgrade (a replaced binary is a new inode). * RPM: %caps(cap_sys_nice=ep) in %files, never a %post setcap — %caps applies, restores and verifies, and covers Fedora as well as Bazzite via rpm-ostree layering. * Bazzite + Arch sysext: setcap on the staging tree before mksquashfs, which does record security.capability. The assertion is amended, not removed: host EMPTY is still a hard fail, and the worker must carry exactly cap_sys_nice=ep — missing is fine, anything else is not. * deb: setcap in postinst. * NixOS: security.wrappers for the WORKER plus PUNKTFUNK_ENCODE_WORKER in the unit. A file capability cannot live on a store path, and an ambient grant is right here precisely because nothing ever identifies the worker. The host's ExecStart stays on the store path. * Steam Deck: setcap the worker; the .desktop the script writes stays valid this time. Four things the plan's channel table missed: * packaging/arch/build-sysext.sh had no capability handling at all, and a sysext can never run a pacman scriptlet — the SteamOS image would have shipped the lever permanently inert. * scripts/steamdeck/update.sh had none either. It rebuilds both binaries, so a new inode drops the grant, and it is the documented steady-state path: the lever would have died on the first update. It also never healed a Deck already capped by 0.26.0-1. * A capped worker is AT_SECURE, and glibc drops $ORIGIN-expanded RPATH entries for secure binaries unless they normalise into a trusted system dir. Copying the host's rpath under BUNDLE_FFMPEG=1 would have left the capped worker unable to find libavcodec on exactly the channel that bundles it. Absolute DT_RPATH instead. * Nix crane scopes by -p, so the worker would not have been built at all, and it needs its own addDriverRunpath. scripts/ci/assert-cap-matrix.sh mechanizes the lesson from 0.26.0-1 — verify the PACKAGE, never the board. It unpacks the built Arch package, the deb, the rpm and the mounted sysext raw and asserts one matrix: the host carries NOTHING (hard fail), the worker exactly cap_sys_nice=ep. The sysext reader first proves it can round-trip a capability through mksquashfs/unsquashfs at all, so an unreadable artifact fails rather than issuing a blind PASS, and --self-test red-teams the assertions themselves. Red-teaming the leg found a real bug: setcap originally ran BEFORE the assertion, so "the worker arrived carrying something unexpected" was unreachable and a stray %caps would have been silently overwritten. Both sysext scripts now assert, then grant, then assert again.
punktfunk-host — RPM (Bazzite / Fedora Atomic) via the Gitea registry
punktfunk-host is published as an RPM to Gitea's RPM package registry in the public unom
org (stable groups bazzite/fedora-44, canary groups bazzite-canary/fedora-44-canary), so
Bazzite / Fedora Atomic hosts layer and update it with rpm-ostree. CI (.gitea/workflows/rpm.yml)
builds and publishes on every push to main (a rolling <next-minor>-0.ciN.g<sha> build — the base
is derived from the latest stable tag by scripts/ci/pf-version.sh — to the *-canary
groups) and on vX.Y.Z tags (a clean X.Y.Z-1 to the base groups, plus attached to the unified
Gitea Release) — separate repos, so a stable box never jumps to a canary build (see
Release Channels). The baseurl below subscribes to the
bazzite stable group; use bazzite-canary for the latest main builds. The RPM is built in the
Fedora 43 image (ci/fedora-rpm.Dockerfile) so its auto-generated library Requires
(libavcodec.so.NN, …) match Bazzite's sonames; the NVIDIA driver lib (libcuda.so.1) is
excluded — NVENC/EGL come from whatever NVIDIA stack the host runs (a weak Recommends).
This is the same package as the COPR / bootc
paths — same spec (punktfunk.spec) — just self-hosted in Gitea instead of COPR, mirroring the
Debian/apt setup.
Install on a Bazzite host (one-time)
# Add the repo. Packages are GPG-signed (gpgcheck=1, the packages@unom.io key) AND the repo
# metadata is Gitea-signed (repo_gpgcheck=1); gpgkey lists both so dnf/rpm-ostree imports each.
sudo tee /etc/yum.repos.d/punktfunk.repo >/dev/null <<'REPO'
[gitea-unom-bazzite]
name=punktfunk (unom, Bazzite)
baseurl=https://git.unom.io/api/packages/unom/rpm/bazzite
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
repo_gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://git.unom.io/api/packages/unom/rpm/repository.key
https://git.unom.io/api/packages/unom/generic/punktfunk-keys/1/RPM-GPG-KEY-punktfunk
REPO
# Layer the host + the web console (pairing/status), then reboot into the new deployment.
# (punktfunk Recommends punktfunk-web; list it explicitly so it's pulled regardless of weak-dep
# settings. The registry carries punktfunk-web because CI builds the spec --with web; COPR can't.)
rpm-ostree install punktfunk punktfunk-web
systemctl reboot
If
rpm-ostreecan't complete the metadata GPG check non-interactively, setrepo_gpgcheck=0(TLS-only trust to the self-hosted registry).
Per-package signing (gpgcheck=1, active)
CI GPG-signs every RPM: packaging/rpm/sign-rpms.sh (run from rpm.yml between build and publish)
signs with the dedicated EdDSA key packages@unom.io (AF245C506F4E4763) and self-verifies
with rpmkeys --checksig before publishing, so an unsigned/bad build never reaches the registry.
The public key is served from the registry (the gpgkey= URL above) and committed at
packaging/rpm/RPM-GPG-KEY-punktfunk. (This is a GPG/OpenPGP key — a step-ca/X.509 cert can't
sign RPMs; step-ca is only for registry/console TLS.)
RPM_GPG_PRIVATE_KEYis an org-level secret onunom, not a repo secret — it will not show up under this repository's Actions secrets. Verify it end to end instead of by its absence there:curl -O <repo-url>/package/punktfunk-web/<ver>/x86_64/…rpm && rpm -qp --qf '%{RSAHEADER:pgpsig}\n'(orrpmkeys --checksig, which reportsNOKEYuntil you import the public key —NOKEYstill means signed, just by a key that box doesn't have yet).
On a v* tag build, a missing key fails the build: sign-rpms.sh will not publish unsigned
RPMs into a repo whose own instructions say gpgcheck=1, because every user's dnf upgrade would
then break on them. Non-release builds still fall through unsigned so forks and local builds work.
How it was set up (and how to rotate the key):
# 1. Generate a DEDICATED, passphrase-less signing key (separate from the Gitea metadata key).
gpg --batch --gen-key <<EOF
%no-protection
Key-Type: eddsa
Key-Curve: ed25519
Name-Real: punktfunk packages
Name-Email: packages@unom.io
Expire-Date: 0
%commit
EOF
gpg --armor --export-secret-keys packages@unom.io # -> the RPM_GPG_PRIVATE_KEY CI secret
gpg --armor --export packages@unom.io > packaging/rpm/RPM-GPG-KEY-punktfunk # public half
# 2. Add the armored PRIVATE key as the RPM_GPG_PRIVATE_KEY Gitea Actions secret, at the ORG level
# (git.unom.io/org/unom/settings/actions/secrets) so every repo's workflows inherit it. Commit
# the public half and publish it to the registry so the gpgkey= URL resolves:
curl --user "<user>:<write:package-PAT>" --upload-file packaging/rpm/RPM-GPG-KEY-punktfunk \
https://git.unom.io/api/packages/unom/generic/punktfunk-keys/1/RPM-GPG-KEY-punktfunk
Rotating the key means a new generic-registry version (bump punktfunk-keys/1 → /2 and the
gpgkey= URL), since the registry rejects re-uploading an existing file.
This key also signs the Bazzite sysext feed, and a third copy of its public half is baked into
packaging/bazzite/punktfunk-sysext.sh (FEED_KEY=) — that script is bootstrapped by curl on
machines that have nothing installed yet, so it can't fetch the key from the thing it's
authenticating. A rotation must update all three: the CI secret, this directory's
RPM-GPG-KEY-punktfunk (+ its registry upload), and FEED_KEY. publish-sysext-feed.sh compares
its signing key's fingerprint against FEED_KEY and refuses to sign on a mismatch, so forgetting
the third one fails the publish instead of stranding every Bazzite box in front of a feed it
can't verify.
After reboot, as the desktop user:
ujust add-user-to-input-group # virtual gamepads need /dev/uinput (re-login).
# Bazzite is atomic — use ujust, NOT `usermod -aG input`.
mkdir -p ~/.config/punktfunk
cp /usr/share/punktfunk/host.env.bazzite ~/.config/punktfunk/host.env # gamescope defaults
systemctl --user enable --now punktfunk-host
# Web console — enable it and read the auto-generated login password (then open https://<host-ip>:47992):
systemctl --user enable --now punktfunk-web
journalctl --user -u punktfunk-web-init | sed -n 's/.*password generated: //p'
(See ../bazzite/README.md for the full appliance walkthrough —
udev/group, host.env, the Steam session unit, firewall, verify.)
Updates
rpm-ostree upgrade # pulls the newest punktfunk with the system update
systemctl reboot # rpm-ostree changes apply on reboot
Layered packages are re-resolved against their repos on every rpm-ostree upgrade, so the box
tracks new builds automatically (Bazzite's auto-update timer does this for you). To pin or stop
tracking: rpm-ostree override / rpm-ostree uninstall punktfunk.
Build an RPM locally
PF_VERSION=0.0.1 bash packaging/rpm/build-rpm.sh # host + client
PF_VERSION=0.0.1 PF_WITH_WEB=1 bash packaging/rpm/build-rpm.sh # + punktfunk-web (needs bun on PATH)
# -> dist/punktfunk-0.0.1-1.fcNN.x86_64.rpm (+ punktfunk-web-0.0.1-1.fcNN.x86_64.rpm with PF_WITH_WEB=1;
# the web subpackage vendors a bun binary, so it's arch-specific, not noarch)
Run it inside the Fedora 43 builder image so the deps resolve and match Bazzite:
docker build -f ci/fedora-rpm.Dockerfile -t punktfunk-fedora-rpm ci
docker run --rm -v "$PWD:/src" -w /src punktfunk-fedora-rpm \
bash -lc 'git config --global --add safe.directory /src && PF_VERSION=0.0.1 bash packaging/rpm/build-rpm.sh'
A plain rpmbuild/COPR build with no pf_version/pf_release defines produces 0.3.0-1 (the
spec defaults).
aarch64 — the client RPM
The client builds for aarch64; the host does not (its encode stack is NVENC/QSV/AMF, all
x86). PF_WITHOUT_HOST=1 drops the host binary, the tray, the headless-session data, the
firewalld services and the main package's %files, leaving exactly one RPM: punktfunk-client.
Omitting the main %files is what keeps rpm from emitting an empty punktfunk next to it.
This is not a cross-compile — %build runs cargo for the host architecture, so run it on an
arm64 machine (or an emulated arm64 container, which is very slow):
docker build --platform linux/arm64 -f ci/fedora-rpm.Dockerfile -t punktfunk-fedora-rpm-arm64 ci
docker run --rm --platform linux/arm64 -v "$PWD:/src" -w /src punktfunk-fedora-rpm-arm64 \
bash -lc 'git config --global --add safe.directory /src && \
PF_VERSION=0.0.1 PF_WITHOUT_HOST=1 bash packaging/rpm/build-rpm.sh'
# -> dist/punktfunk-client-0.0.1-1.fcNN.aarch64.rpm
PF_WITHOUT_HOST=1 works on x86_64 too, if you only want the client RPM. The flag is orthogonal
to the architecture; it is just that aarch64 has no other option.