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A copy of somebody else's file goes stale without saying so. The
analytics script sat six upstream releases behind for sixteen months,
and what found it was somebody thinking to look. This looks weekly.

It would have caught the one we just found

Run against this branch's base, which still has the old copy:

$ nps verify.vendored
### `_assets/js/vendor/count.js`

Upstream: https://gc.zgo.at/count.js
Project: https://github.com/arp242/goatcounter

Ours is 9148 bytes, upstream is 9213.

first differs at line 6:
  ours:     if (window.goatcounter && window.goatcounter.vars)  // Compat…
  upstream: window.goatcounter = window.goatcounter || {}

To take what upstream serves:

  curl -fsSL https://gc.zgo.at/count.js -o _assets/js/vendor/count.js

$ echo $?
1

With #1864 applied it says matches and exits 0.

Why a comparison and not a version

A copy here is upstream's bytes and nothing else, so nothing needs to
record a version, and nothing drifts out of date except the file
itself. Watching another file is three lines of data:

{
  file: '_assets/js/vendor/count.js',
  upstream: 'https://gc.zgo.at/count.js',
  project: 'https://github.com/arp242/goatcounter',
}

Three decisions worth arguing with

Not renovate. Its custom managers rewrite version strings in a
file; they cannot fetch a file and replace its contents. It would tell
you a release exists while count.js sat unchanged.

Not in verify/. Everything in that directory runs on every pull
request, and this reaches the network. An upstream that is slow, moved
or unreachable would fail changes that have nothing to do with it.
verify-pull-request.mts sits outside it for the same kind of reason,
and this one keeps it company. Confirmed verify.all does not pick it
up.

An issue, not a pull request — and this is where I changed my mind
after checking. A pull request raised with GITHUB_TOKEN does not
start the checks, so the queue could never land it: it would sit there
with no status for ever. Using the landing app's credentials would work
but stretches what that app is for. And a file fetched from the
internet is worth a person reading before it arrives, which is the same
reason Socket, Semgrep and DeepSource are on this repository at all.

One issue at a time — a weekly comment on a report nobody has acted on
yet adds nothing.

Two defects found reviewing this, now fixed

An outage would have filed a false report. The task wrote the reason
it could not reach an upstream to stderr, and the workflow keeps only
stdout. A 404 or a timeout exited 1 like drift does, so a five-minute
GoatCounter outage on a Wednesday would have opened an issue headed
"a vendored file has drifted from upstream" with an empty body.

Drift and could-not-check now exit differently — 1 and 2 — and every
reason goes to stdout. An outage leaves a red run and no issue.

A missing vendored file crashed. An entry whose file had been
removed threw a raw ENOENT stack trace and exited 1, which is the
same false report by another route. It is caught and reported now.

And a latent one: the check for an existing report used
gh issue list --search, which reads an index that lags behind what
was just written, so two runs close together could file two reports. It
matches on the open issues themselves now.

Verified

Both of the workflow's shell blocks were extracted from the YAML and
run here against each outcome, with gh replaced by a stand-in that
cannot reach the API:

state exit issue run
in sync 0 none green
drifted, nothing reported 1 filed green
drifted, already reported 1 none, says so green
upstream unreachable 2 none red
vendored file missing 2 none red
drifted and unchecked 3 filed red

The exit code carries both answers as bits, so neither hides the other:
a file nobody can reach cannot hold back a report about one that
drifted, and a drift report cannot pass off an incomplete comparison as
a complete one.

Also checked:

  • the workflow parses, its cron is clear of the other two scheduled
    runs, and the label it applies exists
  • a scheduled and a hand-started run cannot file the same report twice
  • the task imports only what node ships with, so the workflow needs no
    install step
  • verify.all does not pick the task up
  • nps test passes

Refs #1548

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added automated checks to compare bundled files with their upstream sources.
    • Added scheduled and manually triggered monitoring for outdated bundled content.
    • Reports the first detected difference and provides an update command.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Clearly distinguishes content differences from unavailable or unreadable sources.
    • Prevents repeated issue creation when the same update is detected.
  • Chores

    • Added a dedicated command for running bundled-content verification.
    • Reports incomplete comparisons separately and fails verification when checks cannot be completed.

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Adds a vendored-file comparison task, exposes it through package scripts, and runs it weekly or manually in GitHub Actions. The workflow reports drift through a deduplicated issue and fails when upstream sources are unreachable.

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Vendored synchronization

Layer / File(s) Summary
Vendored comparison task
build/tasks/check-vendored.mts
The task fetches configured upstream files, compares exact content, reports the first difference, and distinguishes drift from unreachable sources with exit codes.
Verification command
package-scripts.yml
The verify.vendored script runs the network-dependent comparison task separately.
Scheduled drift reporting
.github/workflows/vendored-sync.yml
The workflow runs weekly or manually, captures the comparison report, fails on unreachable sources, and creates at most one labeled issue for open drift.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

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The PR adds weekly vendored-file drift detection and issue reporting; the duplicate-report concern is addressed and the documented outcomes are verified. No actionable merge-blocking risk remains beyond normal checks and review.

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  participant GitHubActions
  participant VerifyVendored
  participant CheckVendored
  participant GitHubIssues
  GitHubActions->>VerifyVendored: Run vendored verification
  VerifyVendored->>CheckVendored: Compare vendored files with upstream
  CheckVendored-->>GitHubActions: Return status and comparison report
  GitHubActions->>GitHubIssues: Create issue when drift exists without an open duplicate
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Inline comments:
In @.github/workflows/vendored-sync.yml:
- Around line 69-70: Update the open-issue lookup in the workflow to paginate
through all open issues instead of stopping at 100, then apply the existing
TITLE match against the complete result before allowing issue creation. Preserve
the current number extraction and empty-result behavior.

In `@build/tasks/check-vendored.mts`:
- Around line 149-150: Update the process.exitCode assignment to evaluate
unchecked.length before drifted.length, so any unchecked files produce UNCHECKED
even when drifted files also exist; retain MATCHED only when both collections
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A copy of somebody else's file goes stale without saying so. The
analytics script sat six upstream releases behind for sixteen months,
and what found it was somebody thinking to look.

A copy here is upstream's bytes and nothing else, so the check is a
comparison and needs no version recorded anywhere. Adding another file
to watch is three lines of data.

Weekly rather than on every pull request: it reaches the network, and
`verify.all` runs everything in its directory, so an upstream that is
slow or moved would fail changes that have nothing to do with it. It
sits beside `verify-pull-request.mts`, out of that directory for the
same kind of reason.

It opens an issue rather than a pull request. One raised with
`GITHUB_TOKEN` does not start the checks, so the queue could never land
it; and a file fetched from the internet is worth a person reading
before it arrives, which is why the dependency scanners are here.

Drift and an upstream nobody could reach are separate bits of the exit
code, so neither hides the other: an outage leaves a red run and no
issue rather than a report headed "has drifted" with nothing under it,
and a file nobody can reach cannot hold back a report about one that
drifted.

Signed-off-by: Derek Lewis <DerekNonGeneric@inf.is>
Assisted-by: Claude-Code:claude-opus-5
Refs: #1548
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Both taken, though the second one differently than suggested — and the
first for a different reason than given. Thank you, they were worth
having.

The open-issue lookup. The reasoning cites a web result saying gh issue list cannot paginate and --limit is a hard cap on one request.
That is not what it does — it pages until it has as many as asked for:

$ gh issue list --repo cli/cli --state open --limit 100 --json number --jq 'length'
100
$ gh issue list --repo cli/cli --state open --limit 250 --json number --jq 'length'
250

So there was nothing to add pagination to. The bound was still real,
just for the other reason: --limit 100 truncates once more than a
hundred issues are open, and the report could fall outside the window.
It asks for 1000 now, which gh pages to reach and this repository
will not approach.

Unchecked versus drifted. Agreed that one must not hide the other,
but making unchecked win swaps which one is hidden: an upstream that
stays unreachable would then suppress a real drift report about a
different file for as long as it stayed down.

So neither wins. The exit code carries both as bits — 1 drifted, 2
unchecked, 3 both — and the workflow acts on each independently. The
issue is filed first, then the run is failed, so a file nobody can
reach cannot hold back a report about one that drifted.

Run against all four states, with gh replaced by a stand-in that
cannot reach the API:

state exit issue run
matched 0 none green
drifted 1 filed green
unchecked 2 none red
both 3 filed red

That last row is the case you raised, and it now reports both things
rather than either one.

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