D1's activation half (design/client-deep-links.md §4.1). The client already had a `--connect` CLI, but nothing claimed the scheme, so nothing outside a terminal could start a stream: no browser prompt, no xdg-open, no double-clickable shortcut. The `.desktop` entries gain `MimeType=x-scheme-handler/punktfunk;` and `Exec=… %u`, and the rpm scriptlet joins deb and arch in running `update-desktop-database` — an entry nothing indexes claims nothing. (nix substitutes the Exec line by prefix, so `%u` survives; flatpak's exported entry is renamed to the app id by the standard mechanism.) In the app, `HANDLES_OPEN` plus a positional-URL argv is the whole mechanism, and the second half is the interesting one: argv stays withheld from GApplication as before EXCEPT when it carries a URL, and then GIO's own single-instance forwarding delivers it to the running window over D-Bus. Clicking a link with Punktfunk already open reuses that window instead of racing a second instance, and we wrote no IPC to get it. A URL that lands during a cold start (before the model exists) is parked rather than dropped — silently losing a link is the one outcome that would make the feature untrustworthy. Routing is four lines of translation, because the decisions are the brain's: parse, resolve the host, resolve the profile, refuse. A link that resolves becomes exactly the message a card click raises — the same wake, trust gate, and error surfaces — so there is no second connect path to keep in sync. A link to a host we don't know, or know but never pinned, opens the ordinary PIN ceremony seeded with what the link claimed, which is how "a URL may never pair or trust on its own" stays true while still being useful. Never preempting a live session is checked here, since only this layer knows one is running. Verified on .21 under Xvfb against hand-authored stores: `connect/Bound%20Box?launch=` resolved the host by name, carried the launch id through the trust gate, and spawned the session; `punktfunk://pair/1234` and an unknown `profile=` both refused before any dial. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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.)
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. 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.
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.