feat(slots): add a retirement workflow and a drift check

Retiring a slot means three separate things in three separate places, and
nothing tied them together.
Alpine 3.22 is what that costs: it was removed from `local.rpkgs_slots` in
`cdn.tf` at some point, so the edge stopped routing it, but it kept a matrix
row in twelve pipelines, six cron jobs on the Crow server and ~50000 objects in
the bucket.
Nightly builds kept producing binaries nobody could reach, and because an
unrouted slot serves the flat index to every client, R 4.4 and R 4.6 users got
`LOAD_FAILED` rather than nothing.

This change will:

- Add `local/check-slots.R`, which fails when any `.crow/*.yaml` still targets
  a slot missing from `local.rpkgs_slots`. Run it with `just check-slots`.
- Add `local/retire-slot.R`, which strips a slot from the pipeline matrices and
  deletes its objects from the bucket. Dry run by default, and it refuses any
  slot still listed in `cdn.tf`, so it cannot be pointed at a live slot.
- Add `.crow/retire-slot.yaml`, which runs the asset half in CI where the B2
  credentials exist.
- Document the ordering in README, including the cron jobs, which live on the
  Crow server and cannot be removed from here.

The check is one-directional on purpose.
A pipeline targeting an unpublished slot is an error; a published slot missing
from *some* pipeline is only reported, because several pipelines cover a subset
deliberately.

Verified against the tree as it stood before #213: the checker names exactly the
twelve files that PR edited by hand, and `retire-slot.R --config-only` reproduces
that commit's structural changes byte for byte across all 18 pipeline files.
The only differences are two prose lines, a usage example and a dropdown
`description:`, which the script leaves alone because rewriting free text
automatically is guesswork.
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### Fail when a pipeline still targets a slot the edge does not route.
#
# Usage:
# Rscript local/check-slots.R
#
# A slot is only reachable by clients if it appears in `local.rpkgs_slots` in
# `cdn.tf`. That list feeds the `UNION_SLOTS` variable, and
# `edge/rpkgs-router.ts` gates all per-R-minor index rewriting on it. A slot
# missing from it is not merely unadvertised: every request falls through to
# the flat index, which holds a single build per package, so clients on any R
# minor other than the one the slot was built against die at dyn.load().
#
# Alpine 3.22 sat in that state for months. It was built nightly, its per-minor
# indexes were correct, and it was never routed. `verify_routing=all` found it
# only because the run happened to include it: 1056 of 1056 checks passed on
# the 16 published slots and every failure in the run was alpine322, on both
# architectures, identical across all three URL forms.
#
# The check is deliberately one-directional. A pipeline targeting an unpublished
# slot is an error, because it spends build capacity on binaries nobody can
# reach and turns `verify_routing=all` permanently red for a reason that is not
# a defect. A published slot missing from *some* pipeline is only reported:
# several pipelines cover a subset on purpose (archive-missed-packages has no
# ubuntu rows, weekly-rebuild-missing has no alpine-324 rows), and the coverage
# a pipeline needs is its own business.
#
# The website's `DistroId` union in `src/src/data/repos.ts` must agree with
# `cdn.tf` too, but it lives in another repository so it cannot be checked here.
options(error = function() {
cat("ERROR:", geterrmessage(), "\n", file = stdout())
q(status = 1)
})
# `cdn.tf` is the source of truth, so read it rather than restating the list.
# The shape this depends on is the second string array inside the
# `rpkgs_slots` local, i.e. the distro list of the setproduct:
#
# rpkgs_slots = [
# for pair in setproduct(
# ["amd64", "arm64"],
# ["resolute", "noble", ...]
# ) : "${pair[0]}/${pair[1]}"
# ]
published_codenames <- function(path = "cdn.tf") {
if (!file.exists(path)) {
stop(
sprintf("%s not found; run this from the repository root.", path),
call. = FALSE
)
}
lines <- readLines(path, warn = FALSE)
start <- grep("rpkgs_slots\\s*=", lines)
if (length(start) != 1L) {
stop(
"Could not find exactly one `rpkgs_slots` local in cdn.tf.",
call. = FALSE
)
}
block <- paste(lines[start:min(start + 10L, length(lines))], collapse = "\n")
arrays <- regmatches(block, gregexpr("\\[[^]]*\\]", block))[[1L]]
# The first array is the setproduct's arch list, the second is the distros.
if (length(arrays) < 2L) {
stop(
"The `rpkgs_slots` local no longer has the two-array setproduct shape this parser expects. Update local/check-slots.R alongside cdn.tf.", # nolint
call. = FALSE
)
}
codenames <- regmatches(arrays[[2L]], gregexpr('"[^"]+"', arrays[[2L]]))[[1L]]
codenames <- gsub('"', "", codenames)
if (length(codenames) == 0L) {
stop(
"Parsed an empty distro list from cdn.tf; refusing to report every pipeline slot as unpublished.",
call. = FALSE
)
}
codenames
}
# Pipelines name a slot `<os>-<version>`, the edge and the bucket name it by
# codename. The ubuntu half of this mapping is also in `edge/rpkgs-router.ts`
# (UBUNTU_CODENAMES) and `local/build-all.R`.
UBUNTU_CODENAMES <- c(
resolute = "ubuntu-2604",
noble = "ubuntu-2404",
jammy = "ubuntu-2204"
)
as_pipeline_os <- function(codename) {
ifelse(
codename %in% names(UBUNTU_CODENAMES),
UBUNTU_CODENAMES[codename],
ifelse(
grepl("^rhel[0-9]+$", codename),
sub("^rhel", "redhat-", codename),
ifelse(
grepl("^alpine[0-9]+$", codename),
sub("^alpine([0-9])([0-9]+)$", "alpine-\\1\\2", codename),
NA_character_
)
)
)
}
# Structural lines only, so a codename mentioned in a comment is not a finding.
# Three shapes carry a slot: a matrix row (`- OS: alpine-323`), a continuation
# key (`CODENAME: alpine323`), and a dropdown option (`- alpine-323-amd64`).
slots_in_pipeline <- function(path) {
lines <- readLines(path, warn = FALSE)
hits <- character(0)
row <- regmatches(
lines,
regexec("^\\s*-?\\s*(OS|CODENAME|OS_ID):\\s*(\\S+)\\s*$", lines)
)
hits <- c(
hits,
vapply(row, function(m) if (length(m) == 3L) m[[3L]] else NA_character_, "")
)
opt <- regmatches(
lines,
regexec("^\\s*-\\s*([a-z0-9]+-[a-z0-9]+)-(amd64|arm64)\\s*$", lines)
)
hits <- c(
hits,
vapply(opt, function(m) if (length(m) == 4L) m[[2L]] else NA_character_, "")
)
hits <- hits[!is.na(hits)]
# `OS: alpine` (build-all-versions' bare image name) is not a slot.
unique(hits[grepl("^(alpine|redhat|ubuntu)-?[0-9]", hits)])
}
codenames <- published_codenames()
published_os <- unname(as_pipeline_os(codenames))
if (anyNA(published_os)) {
stop(
sprintf(
"Unrecognised codename(s) in cdn.tf: %s",
paste(codenames[is.na(published_os)], collapse = ", ")
),
call. = FALSE
)
}
# A slot is written either way depending on the file, so accept both spellings.
published <- unique(c(published_os, codenames))
cat(sprintf(
"Published slots (cdn.tf): %s\n\n",
paste(sort(published_os), collapse = ", ")
))
files <- sort(list.files(".crow", pattern = "\\.yaml$", full.names = TRUE))
findings <- list()
for (f in files) {
found <- slots_in_pipeline(f)
stale <- setdiff(found, published)
if (length(stale) > 0L) {
findings[[f]] <- stale
cat(sprintf(
"%-45s targets unpublished: %s\n",
f,
paste(sort(stale), collapse = ", ")
))
}
}
covered <- unique(unlist(lapply(files, slots_in_pipeline)))
uncovered <- setdiff(published_os, covered)
if (length(uncovered) > 0L) {
cat(sprintf(
"\nNote: %s appear(s) in no pipeline at all. That is a gap, not necessarily a bug.\n",
paste(sort(uncovered), collapse = ", ")
))
}
if (length(findings) == 0L) {
cat("All pipeline slots are published and routed.\n")
quit(status = 0)
}
cat(sprintf(
"\n%d file(s) target a slot the edge does not route. Retire it with:\n just retire-slot <codename>\n",
length(findings)
))
quit(status = 1)