Make the installer timeout option work as documented - #4351
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SETUP_OPTS was assigned only inside install-base-charts but consumed by install-the-combine. Runs that begin at the Install-combine step, such as "update" or "start-at", skip install-base-charts, so the timeout option was silently dropped and Helm fell back to its 5 minute default. That default is too short for the update-cert-oneshot post-install hook when the combine_maint image still has to be pulled over a slow connection. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe installer now validates timeout and version options centrally. It persists timeout settings across resumed installations, restores them for installation flows, builds shared ChangesHelm timeout setup
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A missing value shifted past the end of the argument list, which under "set -e" aborted the installer with no output at all, and a non-duration value, such as the next option when the value was left out, was swallowed and not reported until helm rejected it several steps later. Both now fail immediately with a message naming the bad value. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Every helm command in the installer runs after the restart that the Pre-reqs step usually requires, so a timeout given on the first invocation was discarded before it could ever be used. Record it in the config directory and reuse it until the install finishes, which is when the state file is discarded as well. A timeout on the command line still wins, and "clean" drops the recorded value. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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HELM_TIMEOUT was never initialized, so a value exported by the caller bypassed the format check that the option itself now gets, and recording the timeout made that stickier by writing the unchecked value to the config directory for later invocations to pick up. Also state which of "restart" and "clean" keeps a recorded timeout, in the code and in the installer README. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
A timeout given on the same command line as "clean" is still applied and saved, so say "previously saved" to match the wording about the saved environment. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The comment said a finished install discards the recorded timeout, but the same path is reached by a finished uninstall; what holds in both cases is that the timeout lasts as long as the state does. The message printed when a timeout is in effect also claimed it was being used during invocations that run no helm command at all, such as the one that ends in the required restart. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Options take effect as they are parsed, and several of them record a new state for the install, so a bad value reported partway through the argument list left the install recorded as further along than it was. "update timeout bogus", for instance, recorded the Install-combine state before rejecting the timeout, and the next run then skipped the Base-charts step. The values are now checked in a pass of their own, before the first option is applied, and the checks were moved rather than copied, so each remains in one place. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The comment claimed the timeout lasts as long as the state does, which is not enforced: the state file is not written until the Pre-reqs step finishes, so a run that fails during that step leaves a recorded timeout and no state. That is deliberate, since the next run is a retry of the same install, so describe what the code does instead of implying the two are tied together. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The format check accepted zero-length durations such as "0s" and "0h0m0s", which helm treats as a deadline that has already passed, so the install failed at once instead of reporting the value as unusable. A duration is zero exactly when all of its parts are zero, since none of them can be negative here. Also check a timeout read back from the config directory, naming the file in the error, so an edited or damaged value reports where it came from rather than reaching helm unchecked. An empty file still leaves the timeout unset. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
An uninstall runs no helm command that takes a timeout, yet it recorded one that was given and, worse, aborted when the recorded value could not be used. That made a damaged record block the very command for getting out of a broken state. Runs that do reach helm still fail on an unusable value, since they need it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
An assignment takes the status of its command substitution, so an unreadable timeout file ended the install through "set -e" with only the message from cat to explain it, which reads as a crash rather than as a problem with one file. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
A recorded value that cannot be read or used stops every install and update run until it is gone, and "restart" is not what removes it, so those errors now name the file and say to delete it or use the clean option. The advice is carried by ERROR_HINT, which "error" prints on its own line, rather than by the message, which lets a value typed on the command line report the same fault without it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Without a value, the option shifted past the end of the argument list, which stopped the installer with no message and left an empty state file behind for the next run to reject. The step names themselves are still checked by the state machine, which reports one that it does not recognize. Also return success from check-opt-value explicitly, since it's called as a bare command and a check that ended in a test would stop the script on valid input. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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In `@deploy/scripts/install-combine.sh`:
- Around line 315-320: Update the timeout-file handling around HELM_TIMEOUT and
check-opt-value so an existing but empty saved timeout is treated as invalid and
triggers the existing ERROR_HINT recovery path; do not skip validation when
HELM_TIMEOUT is empty, while preserving normal validation for non-empty values.
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An empty file was accepted as "no timeout", which quietly gave the install the 5 minute default that the option exists to change. No path writes an empty record, so an empty one means the same as an unusable one, and the check that rejects an unusable value already rejects an empty one. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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timeoutoption did not work:SETUP_OPTSwas set insideinstall-base-chartsbut used byinstall-the-combine, so runs beginning atInstall-combine—update,start-at— dropped it and Helm fell back to its 5 minute default. Fixing that exposed several more ways the option failed.Changes
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