fix(arcup): accept checksum files without a trailing newline

[osr21]

What

verify_checksum_file() decided whether a checksum file was empty from the exit status of:

read -r expected_checksum expected_name < "$checksum_path"

read returns a non-zero status when it reaches EOF before encountering a newline — even though it has already assigned the variables. So a .sha256 file whose single line has no trailing newline (valid, and produced by several non-GNU checksum tools or by manual editing) was rejected with Checksum file is empty, aborting an otherwise-correct install.

Fix

Decide emptiness from the parsed hash rather than from read's exit status:

read -r expected_checksum expected_name < "$checksum_path" || true
if [[ -z "$expected_checksum" ]]; then
    error "Checksum file is empty: $checksum_path"
fi

A genuinely empty file still produces an empty $expected_checksum and is still rejected, so the empty-file guard is preserved.

Repro

printf '%s  archive.tar.gz' "$(sha256sum archive.tar.gz | cut -d' ' -f1)" > archive.tar.gz.sha256  # no trailing newline
# before: aborts with "Checksum file is empty"
# after:  verifies normally

Tests

Extends test_checksum_validation in arcup/test_arcup.sh with two cases:

• a valid checksum file without a trailing newline now passes;
• a genuinely empty checksum file is still rejected.

Both fail on the current arcup and pass with this change. Full bash arcup/test_arcup.sh suite is green.

Notes

Current release .sha256 assets do end in a newline, so this is a latent-robustness fix in the checksum-verification path rather than an active break — but arcup shouldn't refuse a checksum file it verifies correctly simply because of a missing trailing newline.

[wolfgang1211]

Reviewed and ran this locally. The diagnosis is right: read returns
non-zero on EOF-before-newline while still populating the variables, so the
old if ! read conflated "file has no trailing newline" with "file is
empty". Deciding emptiness from $expected_checksum is the correct fix, and
|| true is necessary rather than defensive given the script runs under
set -euo pipefail.

Verified the tests actually pin the bug: restoring the pre-fix arcup/arcup
while keeping the new cases makes the no-trailing-newline assertion fail with
Checksum file is empty (exit 1). With the fix applied, the full suite passes
all 27 assertions (exit 0), including both new cases, and shellcheck stays
clean.

I also probed the nearby edge cases manually. A newline-only file and a
spaces-only file are both rejected as empty. A mismatched hash without a
trailing newline reaches the normal downstream comparison and is rejected
with Checksum verification failed, so the untested mismatch/no-newline
matrix entry is only a coverage nit, not a behavioral gap.

For sequencing context: these regression tests do not run in CI today because
nothing invokes arcup/test_arcup.sh. #247 wires that suite into a dedicated
job; the PRs are independent, but this coverage becomes continuously enforced
once that CI wiring lands.

[osr21]

Thanks for the thorough pass — restoring the pre-fix script against the new tests to confirm they actually pin the bug is exactly the verification this kind of change needs, and I appreciate you probing the newline-only/spaces-only edges manually.

Took the coverage nit as actionable rather than leaving it a nit: pushed 01694c4, which adds the missing matrix entry — a wrong hash with no trailing newline:

# A wrong hash without a trailing newline must still fail the comparison,
# not slip through the emptiness check.
printf '%s  %s' "0000...0000" "$archive_name" > "$checksum_file"
expect_fail "mismatched checksum without trailing newline fails" verify_checksum_file ...

As you observed, it was never a behavioral gap — the value flows to the normal comparison and fails there — but it's the one cell where a future regression in the emptiness check could theoretically have flipped an invalid file to accepted, which is the dangerous direction for a checksum verifier (the original bug only broke in the safe direction, rejecting valid files). Now all four newline×validity combinations are pinned: valid+newline (pre-existing), valid+no-newline and empty (this PR's originals), mismatch+no-newline (new). Suite is green at 28 assertions locally.

Agreed on sequencing with #247 — independent merges, and the coverage here becomes continuously enforced the moment that CI wiring lands. From this side there's nothing left pending; ready for maintainer review.

[wolfgang1211]

Nice — the asymmetry argument is the better framing; the original bug only
ever failed safe, so that cell was the one worth pinning. Matrix looks
complete now.

[osr21]

Pushed 363ded4: bumps ARCUP_INSTALLER_VERSION 0.2.0 → 0.2.1 per the in-file convention — an omission caught by the duplicate PR #262 (credited there). Full test_arcup.sh suite re-run after the bump: 28/28 pass, including the three no-trailing-newline cases this PR adds.

[osr21]

Hi @ZhiyuCircle — following up on this one, it's been open about a month with no CI run yet.

The fix and the test coverage got a thorough independent review in the thread above (including confirming the new tests actually pin the regression against the pre-fix script, and closing the one remaining edge case in the newline×validity matrix). It's been sitting at "ready for maintainer review" since Aug 9.

Could you take a look, or approve the pending Public CI / Build Docker workflow runs (currently action_required) so the suite actually executes? Happy to make any further changes if something's needed.

Thanks!

[ZhiyuCircle]

Hi @osr21,

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