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package/NOTICE

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+CrewHaus Factory
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+(operating as StudioMax — https://studiomax.io) and contributors.
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package/README.md

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+# @crewhaus/tool-pkgmgr
+
+Deterministic system package-manager queries and installs, with no privilege escalation and a dry run that runs the real selection
+
+Part of [CrewHaus](https://github.com/crewhaus/factory). Most people install the CLI (`npm install -g crewhaus`) rather than this package.
+
+Which tools a spec can turn on, and how: [tools reference](https://github.com/crewhaus/docs/blob/main/TOOLS-REFERENCE.md).
+
+Requires [Bun](https://bun.sh) `>=1.3.14`; plain Node is not supported.
+
+[Source](https://github.com/crewhaus/factory/tree/main/packages/tool-pkgmgr)

package/dist/index.js

@@ -121,7 +121,8 @@ function factsJson(facts) {
 // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 export const packageQuery = buildTool({
     name: "PackageQuery",
-    description: 'Ask the system package manager whether a package is installed, at what version, and what its already-downloaded index says is available. Supports Homebrew, apt/dpkg, dnf/rpm, pacman, winget and chocolatey, detecting the manager from the platform unless you name one; a host with none of them is reported as unknown rather than guessed at. It makes NO network call: every answer comes from a local index, which is why winget and chocolatey report installed state only — their available version lives on a remote source. Nothing is ever defaulted: a manager that is not on this host, a probe that timed out, an empty dnf metadata cache or a winget row whose columns could not be split all come back as status "unknown" with the reason and the exact command that was run, never as "not installed". Read-only: it runs only query commands and changes nothing.',
+    operativeArgs: [{ field: "name", kind: "id" }],
+    description: 'Ask the system package manager whether a package is installed, at what version, and what its already-downloaded index says is available. Supports Homebrew, apt/dpkg, dnf/rpm, pacman, winget and chocolatey, detecting the manager from the platform unless you name one; a host with none of them is reported as unknown rather than guessed at. It asks for nothing over the network: every answer comes from a local index, which is why winget and chocolatey report installed state only — their available version lives on a remote source (winget may still refresh its own source cache when a list opens it; no source agreement is ever accepted for you). Nothing is ever defaulted: a manager that is not on this host, a probe that timed out, an empty dnf metadata cache or a winget row whose columns could not be split all come back as status "unknown" with the reason and the exact command that was run, never as "not installed". Read-only: it runs only query commands and changes nothing.',
     inputSchema: z.object({
         name: nameSchema,
         manager: managerSchema,
@@ -209,12 +210,16 @@ function refusal(fields) {
             }
             : {}),
         ...(fields.plan !== undefined ? { plan: fields.plan } : {}),
+        ...(fields.unknowns !== undefined && fields.unknowns.size > 0
+            ? { unknown: fields.unknowns.list() }
+            : {}),
         probes: probeJson(fields.probes),
     });
 }
 export const packageInstall = buildTool({
     name: "PackageInstall",
-    description: "Install a package through the system package manager, or report exactly what installing it would do. DESTRUCTIVE: an install can replace a version that is already working, so the plan names the versions currently on disk before anything runs. Pass dryRun to get that plan and install nothing — it is resolved by the same code the real install uses, and includes the transitive packages the manager says it would add (complete from apt and pacman, resolved-then-declined from dnf, derived from `brew deps` for Homebrew, which has no dry run). THIS TOOL NEVER ACQUIRES PRIVILEGE. It runs no sudo, doas, runas or pkexec and raises no UAC prompt. Homebrew needs no root and is the case that genuinely works unattended; apt, dnf and pacman need root, so they work only when this process is ALREADY root and are otherwise refused with the exact command an operator would run themselves; winget and chocolatey installs are refused outright, because both end in an elevation prompt. A version can only be pinned where the manager can express one — apt can, and every other manager here is refused with the reason rather than quietly installing latest. A package name beginning with '-' is refused, because a manager would read it as a flag.",
+    operativeArgs: [{ field: "name", kind: "id" }],
+    description: "Install a package through the system package manager, or report what installing it would do. DESTRUCTIVE: an install can replace a working version, so the plan names the versions on disk first. dryRun returns that plan and installs nothing; it runs the same code as the real install and lists the packages the manager would add. It never acquires privilege: no sudo, doas, runas, pkexec or UAC prompt. Homebrew needs no root; apt, dnf and pacman work only when this process is already root, and otherwise return the command to run yourself; winget and chocolatey installs are refused. Only apt can pin a version; the other managers refuse one rather than install latest. It never removes anything: a plan that would remove a package is refused, and apt must know the exact name (and version) asked for. A name beginning with '-' is refused.",
     inputSchema: z.object({
         name: nameSchema,
         manager: managerSchema,
@@ -226,7 +231,7 @@ export const packageInstall = buildTool({
         dryRun: z
             .boolean()
             .optional()
-            .describe("resolve and report the plan, and install nothing (default false). The plan is produced by the same code the real install runs"),
+            .describe("resolve and report the plan, and install nothing (default false). The plan is produced by the same code the real install runs; its added packages are complete from apt and pacman, resolved-then-declined from dnf, and derived from `brew deps` for Homebrew, which has no dry run"),
         timeoutMs: timeoutSchema,
     }),
     destructive: true,
@@ -293,8 +298,35 @@ export const packageInstall = buildTool({
         const operand = buildOperand(manager, input.name, requestedVersion ?? undefined);
         // ---- resolution: the same code for both paths -------------------------
         const facts = await queryPackage(ctx, manager, input.name, unknowns, true);
+        // apt reads an operand it has no exact package for as a pattern, and a
+        // version it does not list is stripped to one it does. Nothing is planned
+        // or installed until apt has answered about exactly this name (C021).
+        if (manager === "apt") {
+            const inexact = aptExactRefusal(input.name, requestedVersion, facts);
+            if (inexact !== undefined) {
+                return refusal({
+                    platform,
+                    manager,
+                    reason: inexact,
+                    probes: ctx.probes,
+                    dryRun,
+                    unknowns,
+                });
+            }
+        }
         const plan = await resolveInstallPlan(ctx, manager, input.name, operand, requestedVersion, facts, unknowns);
+        const removals = removalRefusal(plan);
         if (dryRun) {
+            // Stated on the dry run too, so a caller learns BEFORE it tries that
+            // the real call would be refused on this host, or for this plan.
+            const wouldRefuse = [
+                ...(spec.install.needsRoot && !isRoot()
+                    ? [
+                        `${spec.label} needs root to install and this process is not root; this tool does not acquire privilege`,
+                    ]
+                    : []),
+                ...(removals !== undefined ? [removals] : []),
+            ];
             return json({
                 tool: "PackageInstall",
                 platform,
@@ -304,12 +336,10 @@ export const packageInstall = buildTool({
                 installed: false,
                 plan,
                 before: factsJson(facts),
-                // Stated on the dry run too, so a caller learns BEFORE it tries that
-                // the real call would be refused on this host.
-                ...(spec.install.needsRoot && !isRoot()
+                ...(wouldRefuse.length > 0
                     ? {
                         wouldBeRefused: true,
-                        wouldBeRefusedReason: `${spec.label} needs root to install and this process is not root; this tool does not acquire privilege`,
+                        wouldBeRefusedReason: wouldRefuse.join("; "),
                         operatorCommand: spec.operatorCommand(operand),
                     }
                     : {}),
@@ -344,6 +374,17 @@ export const packageInstall = buildTool({
                 probes: probeJson(ctx.probes),
             });
         }
+        if (removals !== undefined) {
+            return refusal({
+                platform,
+                manager,
+                reason: removals,
+                operatorCommand: spec.operatorCommand(operand),
+                plan,
+                probes: ctx.probes,
+                dryRun: false,
+            });
+        }
         // ---- the one line that differs from the dry run ------------------------
         const installArgv = installCommand(manager, operand);
         const result = await run(ctx, manager, installArgv);
@@ -402,6 +443,37 @@ export const packageInstall = buildTool({
         });
     },
 });
+/**
+ * Why apt's answer does not license an install of exactly `name` (at
+ * `version`), or undefined when it does. `facts.versionTable` exists only
+ * when `apt-cache policy` answered with one stanza headed by this name.
+ */
+function aptExactRefusal(name, version, facts) {
+    const table = facts.versionTable;
+    if (table === undefined) {
+        return facts.knownToManager === false
+            ? `apt has no package named exactly ${JSON.stringify(name)} in its downloaded lists, so there is nothing to install`
+            : `apt did not answer about a package named exactly ${JSON.stringify(name)} — it read the name as a pattern, or its answer could not be read (see unknown) — and an install would act on whatever apt matched instead`;
+    }
+    if (version !== null && !table.includes(version)) {
+        const known = table.length === 0 ? "none" : table.slice(0, 5).join(", ");
+        return `apt's lists have no version ${JSON.stringify(version)} of ${JSON.stringify(name)} (listed: ${known}); apt would install a different version or fail, so nothing was run`;
+    }
+    return undefined;
+}
+/**
+ * The refusal for a plan whose simulation REMOVES something. This tool
+ * installs; an install that removes a package (a Conflicts swap, or an
+ * operand apt read as "remove") is a different decision, and the real
+ * install also runs with `--no-remove`, so apt would abort it anyway.
+ */
+function removalRefusal(plan) {
+    const removed = plan.removals ?? [];
+    if (removed.length === 0)
+        return undefined;
+    const names = removed.map((p) => p.name).join(", ");
+    return `the manager's simulation of this install REMOVES ${names}; this tool installs and never removes, so it refuses — run the operator command yourself if the removal is intended`;
+}
 /**
  * The install argv for a manager.
  *

package/dist/lib/managers.d.ts

@@ -61,10 +61,14 @@ export declare const MANAGER_IDS: readonly ManagerId[];
  *   - `pacman -S --print --print-format '%r/%n %v'` is pacman's dry run. It
  *     prints every target INCLUDING dependencies, with versions, and needs no
  *     root — the best dry run of the six.
- *   - `winget list --exact --query` with `--disable-interactivity` and
- *     `--accept-source-agreements`: without those two, winget can sit waiting
- *     for a keypress or for an agreement to be accepted, which on a pipe is a
- *     command that never exits.
+ *   - `winget list --exact --query` with `--disable-interactivity`, which is
+ *     what stops winget waiting on a pipe for a keypress: with it, a source
+ *     agreement nobody has accepted makes winget REFUSE (exit 0x8A150046)
+ *     instead of prompting. `--accept-source-agreements` is deliberately
+ *     absent. winget records that acceptance permanently — for msstore it is
+ *     consent to send the machine's region — and accepting a licence is the
+ *     operator's decision, never a side effect of a read. The refusal is
+ *     reported as unknown, with the command to run once by hand.
  *   - `choco list --limit-output` is chocolatey's documented machine-readable
  *     mode: `name|version`, one per line, no headers, no colour. The v1/v2
  *     split is real — `--local-only` was removed in Chocolatey 2.0 — so the

package/dist/lib/managers.js

@@ -34,10 +34,14 @@ export const MANAGER_IDS = Object.freeze([
  *   - `pacman -S --print --print-format '%r/%n %v'` is pacman's dry run. It
  *     prints every target INCLUDING dependencies, with versions, and needs no
  *     root — the best dry run of the six.
- *   - `winget list --exact --query` with `--disable-interactivity` and
- *     `--accept-source-agreements`: without those two, winget can sit waiting
- *     for a keypress or for an agreement to be accepted, which on a pipe is a
- *     command that never exits.
+ *   - `winget list --exact --query` with `--disable-interactivity`, which is
+ *     what stops winget waiting on a pipe for a keypress: with it, a source
+ *     agreement nobody has accepted makes winget REFUSE (exit 0x8A150046)
+ *     instead of prompting. `--accept-source-agreements` is deliberately
+ *     absent. winget records that acceptance permanently — for msstore it is
+ *     consent to send the machine's region — and accepting a licence is the
+ *     operator's decision, never a side effect of a read. The refusal is
+ *     reported as unknown, with the command to run once by hand.
  *   - `choco list --limit-output` is chocolatey's documented machine-readable
  *     mode: `name|version`, one per line, no headers, no colour. The v1/v2
  *     split is real — `--local-only` was removed in Chocolatey 2.0 — so the
@@ -56,9 +60,31 @@ export const PKGMGR_COMMANDS = Object.freeze({
         "-f=${binary:Package}\t${Version}\t${db:Status-Abbrev}\n",
         "--",
     ]),
-    aptCachePolicy: Object.freeze(["apt-cache", "policy", "--"]),
-    aptSimulate: Object.freeze(["apt-get", "install", "-s", "-y", "--"]),
-    aptInstall: Object.freeze(["apt-get", "install", "-y", "--"]),
+    // `-o APT::Cmd::Pattern-Only=true`: apt reads an operand as a package name
+    // or an explicit `?pattern`, never as the unanchored regex or glob it falls
+    // back to otherwise (`lib.+` matched 116 packages on Debian 12). The name
+    // gate already refuses pattern syntax; this is the belt. Older apt ignores
+    // a configuration key it does not know. `--no-remove` on the real install:
+    // apt aborts rather than remove anything, whatever the operand says.
+    aptCachePolicy: Object.freeze(["apt-cache", "policy", "-o", "APT::Cmd::Pattern-Only=true", "--"]),
+    aptSimulate: Object.freeze([
+        "apt-get",
+        "install",
+        "-s",
+        "-y",
+        "-o",
+        "APT::Cmd::Pattern-Only=true",
+        "--",
+    ]),
+    aptInstall: Object.freeze([
+        "apt-get",
+        "install",
+        "-y",
+        "--no-remove",
+        "-o",
+        "APT::Cmd::Pattern-Only=true",
+        "--",
+    ]),
     dnfVersion: Object.freeze(["dnf", "--version"]),
     rpmQuery: Object.freeze(["rpm", "-q", "--queryformat", "%{NAME}\t%{EVR}\t%{ARCH}\n", "--"]),
     dnfListAvailable: Object.freeze(["dnf", "--cacheonly", "--quiet", "list", "--available", "--"]),
@@ -70,14 +96,7 @@ export const PKGMGR_COMMANDS = Object.freeze({
     pacmanSimulate: Object.freeze(["pacman", "-S", "--print", "--print-format", "%r/%n %v", "--"]),
     pacmanInstall: Object.freeze(["pacman", "-S", "--noconfirm", "--"]),
     wingetVersion: Object.freeze(["winget", "--version"]),
-    wingetList: Object.freeze([
-        "winget",
-        "list",
-        "--exact",
-        "--disable-interactivity",
-        "--accept-source-agreements",
-        "--query",
-    ]),
+    wingetList: Object.freeze(["winget", "list", "--exact", "--disable-interactivity", "--query"]),
     chocoVersion: Object.freeze(["choco", "--version"]),
     /** Chocolatey 2.x: `choco list` is local by default. */
     chocoListV2: Object.freeze(["choco", "list", "--exact", "--limit-output"]),

package/dist/lib/names.d.ts

@@ -47,7 +47,11 @@ export type NameRule = {
  *     tap-qualified name adds two slashes (`homebrew/cask/firefox`). Upper
  *     case is allowed through because a tap's user segment can carry it.
  *   - apt: Debian policy §5.6.1 — `[a-z0-9][a-z0-9+.-]+`, plus an optional
- *     `:arch` qualifier (`libc6:i386`).
+ *     `:arch` qualifier (`libc6:i386`). Neither part may END in `-`: apt-get
+ *     reads a trailing `-` on an install operand as "remove this package"
+ *     (`apt-get install tzdata-` uninstalls tzdata), and no real package or
+ *     architecture name ends in one. A trailing `+` IS legal (`g++`), and apt
+ *     matches an exact name before it reads `+` as a modifier.
  *   - dnf: an rpm name is `[A-Za-z0-9._+-]`, and the whole NEVRA form
  *     (`kernel-5.14.0-427.el9.x86_64`) is spelled with the same characters,
  *     which is why a version is passed as part of the NAME for dnf rather

package/dist/lib/names.js

@@ -40,7 +40,11 @@
  *     tap-qualified name adds two slashes (`homebrew/cask/firefox`). Upper
  *     case is allowed through because a tap's user segment can carry it.
  *   - apt: Debian policy §5.6.1 — `[a-z0-9][a-z0-9+.-]+`, plus an optional
- *     `:arch` qualifier (`libc6:i386`).
+ *     `:arch` qualifier (`libc6:i386`). Neither part may END in `-`: apt-get
+ *     reads a trailing `-` on an install operand as "remove this package"
+ *     (`apt-get install tzdata-` uninstalls tzdata), and no real package or
+ *     architecture name ends in one. A trailing `+` IS legal (`g++`), and apt
+ *     matches an exact name before it reads `+` as a modifier.
  *   - dnf: an rpm name is `[A-Za-z0-9._+-]`, and the whole NEVRA form
  *     (`kernel-5.14.0-427.el9.x86_64`) is spelled with the same characters,
  *     which is why a version is passed as part of the NAME for dnf rather
@@ -62,8 +66,8 @@ export const NAME_RULES = Object.freeze({
         charset: "letters, digits and @ + . _ - , with at most two / segments for a tap-qualified name",
     },
     apt: {
-        pattern: /^[a-z0-9][a-z0-9+._-]*(:[a-z0-9][a-z0-9-]*)?$/,
-        charset: "lowercase letters, digits and + . _ - , with an optional :architecture suffix",
+        pattern: /^[a-z0-9](?:[a-z0-9+._-]*[a-z0-9+._])?(?::[a-z0-9](?:[a-z0-9-]*[a-z0-9])?)?$/,
+        charset: "lowercase letters, digits and + . _ - (not ending in -), with an optional :architecture suffix",
     },
     dnf: {
         pattern: /^[A-Za-z0-9][A-Za-z0-9._+-]*$/,
@@ -129,6 +133,12 @@ export function checkPackageName(manager, name) {
     if (/\s/.test(name)) {
         return "the package name contains whitespace; a package name is a single token";
     }
+    if (manager === "apt" && name.split(":").some((part) => part.endsWith("-"))) {
+        // Named before the charset check, because the reason is not the
+        // characters: apt-get reads `install tzdata-` as REMOVE tzdata, so an
+        // accepted name would turn an install call into an uninstall.
+        return `${JSON.stringify(name)} ends in "-", which apt-get reads as "remove this package", not as part of its name — no apt package or architecture name ends in "-"`;
+    }
     const rule = NAME_RULES[manager];
     if (!rule.pattern.test(name)) {
         return `${JSON.stringify(name)} is not a valid ${manager} package name — accepted: ${rule.charset}`;
@@ -170,5 +180,11 @@ export function checkVersionSyntax(version) {
     if (!DEBIAN_VERSION_PATTERN.test(version)) {
         return `${JSON.stringify(version)} is not a Debian version string — accepted: letters, digits and . + ~ : - , starting with a letter or digit`;
     }
+    if (version.endsWith("-")) {
+        // A Debian revision is never empty, so no real version ends in "-"; and
+        // apt-get reads `name=version-` as "remove name" (verified on apt 2.6:
+        // `install tzdata=2026b-0+deb12u1-` uninstalled tzdata).
+        return `${JSON.stringify(version)} ends in "-", which is never a Debian version and which apt-get reads as "remove this package"`;
+    }
     return undefined;
 }

package/dist/lib/parse.d.ts

@@ -100,6 +100,49 @@ export type AptPolicy = {
     readonly installed: string | null;
     readonly candidate: string | null;
 };
+/** One `<name>:` stanza of `apt-cache policy` output. */
+export type AptPolicyStanza = AptPolicy & {
+    /** The header without its trailing colon: `curl`, `libc6:i386`. */
+    readonly header: string;
+    /** Every version the version table lists, in apt's order. */
+    readonly versions: readonly string[];
+    /** Whether the Installed or Candidate label was found at all. */
+    readonly labelled: boolean;
+};
+/**
+ * Split `apt-cache policy` output into its stanzas. A stanza starts at an
+ * unindented `<name>:` line. apt prints one per package the operand matched,
+ * and an operand it read as a pattern matches many: `apt-cache policy
+ * 'lib.+'` printed 116 on a Debian 12 image.
+ */
+export declare function parseAptPolicyStanzas(stdout: string): AptPolicyStanza[];
+/** What `apt-cache policy <name>` said about exactly `name`. */
+export type AptPolicyMatch = 
+/** One stanza, headed by exactly this name. */
+{
+    readonly kind: "exact";
+    readonly stanza: AptPolicyStanza;
+}
+/** Nothing at all: apt has no package of this name (it prints nothing). */
+ | {
+    readonly kind: "none";
+}
+/** Stanzas, but not one headed by exactly this name: apt read it as a pattern. */
+ | {
+    readonly kind: "not-exact";
+    readonly headers: readonly string[];
+}
+/** A stanza for this name, but neither label: localised or changed output. */
+ | {
+    readonly kind: "unlabelled";
+};
+/**
+ * The stanza for exactly `name`, or why there is none. `name:arch` also
+ * matches a lone stanza headed by the bare name, which is how apt prints the
+ * native architecture (`libc6:amd64` on amd64 prints `libc6:`). More than one
+ * stanza is never an answer about `name`, whatever their headers say.
+ */
+export declare function matchAptPolicy(stdout: string, name: string): AptPolicyMatch;
 /**
  * `apt-cache policy <name>` under `LC_ALL=C`.
  *
@@ -115,8 +158,11 @@ export type AptPolicy = {
  * An unknown package produces an empty document (apt-cache prints nothing and
  * exits 0), which parses to `undefined` rather than to two nulls, so "apt has
  * never heard of this" cannot be confused with "apt has it, not installed".
+ * So does output with more than one stanza, or (given `name`) a stanza for a
+ * different name: that is apt answering about a PATTERN, and reading its last
+ * stanza as the answer reported another package's version (C021).
  */
-export declare function parseAptCachePolicy(stdout: string): AptPolicy | undefined;
+export declare function parseAptCachePolicy(stdout: string, name?: string): AptPolicy | undefined;
 export type AptSimulatedChange = {
     readonly action: "install" | "remove";
     readonly name: string;
@@ -279,14 +325,24 @@ export type WingetRow = {
  */
 export declare function parseWingetList(stdout: string): WingetRow[];
 /**
- * winget's "no installed package matched" exit code, 0x8A15002B as a signed
+ * winget's "no installed package matched" exit code:
+ * APPINSTALLER_CLI_ERROR_NO_APPLICATIONS_FOUND, 0x8A150014, as a signed
  * 32-bit integer.
  *
  * `winget list` exits with this rather than 0-and-empty, which makes presence
  * decidable from the EXIT CODE alone — the one part of winget's answer that
- * is neither localised nor column-aligned.
+ * is neither localised nor column-aligned. 0.7.0 had 0x8A15002B here, which
+ * is APPINSTALLER_CLI_ERROR_UPDATE_NOT_APPLICABLE (`winget upgrade` with
+ * nothing to do), so a package that was not installed came back unknown.
+ * Compare against `code | 0`: a runtime may report the DWORD unsigned.
+ */
+export declare const WINGET_NO_PACKAGES_FOUND = -1978335212;
+/**
+ * APPINSTALLER_CLI_ERROR_SOURCE_AGREEMENTS_NOT_ACCEPTED, 0x8A150046: with
+ * `--disable-interactivity`, a configured source whose agreement nobody has
+ * accepted makes `winget list` refuse outright instead of prompting.
  */
-export declare const WINGET_NO_PACKAGES_FOUND = -1978335189;
+export declare const WINGET_SOURCE_AGREEMENTS_NOT_ACCEPTED = -1978335162;
 /**
  * `choco list --limit-output` — `name|version`, one per line, no header.
  *