Package-manager hardening sweep from the repo audit — one Medium + four
Lows, all in src/packages/ (F-011 also renames across lua_bindings + tests).
F-005 (Medium) — install dirs are named by package basename and require
routes by basename, so two distinct packages `owner/magit` and
`other/magit` collapse to one dir with most-recent-install silently
winning. Reject a resolve plan that contains distinct names sharing a
basename: new ResolveError::BasenameCollision + find_basename_collision()
in into_plan (the one place holding every name at once). The loader's
*intended* cross-scope override (project- vs user-scope, most-recent-first)
is untouched — its test still passes. Namespace-preserving layout and
cross-resolve install-time detection are named-deferred.
F-009 (Low) — the fetch bare-mirror cache dir was keyed by 64-bit FNV-1a
of the (attacker-adjacent) repo URL — trivially collidable. Swap to
SHA-256 (sha2, already a dep for lockfile hashing). normalize_url still
folds equivalent URLs to one entry; only the digest changes (re-clones
once, it's a cache).
F-010 (Low) — on a git subprocess timeout, run_with_timeout returned
before joining the stdout/stderr drain threads (joined only on the normal
path), leaving detached readers. Restructure to break the wait loop with a
Result, reap the child on every path, and join both threads at one point
before propagating.
F-011 (Low) — ResolvedPackage.commit was documented "Full 40-character
commit hash" but commit_for_tag() puts a tag string there (the resolver
works against commit-ishes by design, deferring SHA resolution to the
installer/lockfile). Rename the field to `revision` + honest doc.
Compiler-driven rename hit exactly the ResolvedPackage sites; the
Lua-visible "commit" record key is unchanged.
F-012 (Low) — the topo sort built an indegree map, argued in comments it
was backwards, and rebuilt it. Delete the dead first block + the
meandering narration.
Framing/as-built: docs/package-manager-hardening-framing.md.
Validated: fmt clean; clippy --all-targets clean under both Lua flavors;
1436 lib unit tests pass (incl. new F-005/F-009 tests, the F-010 timeout
test, and the loader override test).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014TXbAwk27agwhrNNrhLi2U
Levi Neuwirth