fix: repack AppImages with correct relative .DirIcon symlink#203
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Workaround for tauri-apps/tauri#15110 where tauri-bundler bakes an absolute symlink for .DirIcon into the AppImage squashfs, causing app-manager and similar tools to fail installation. After tauri-action builds and uploads the AppImages, this step extracts each one, replaces .DirIcon with a relative symlink, repacks with appimagetool, and re-uploads the fixed file to the release. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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I'm not comfortable with the changes to the files which aren't related to the release workflow. Why are these included in this PR?
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those were to do with the pipeline not passing, I can revert if you prefer |
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Ah, sorry, it's just a formatting change, all good! I'll merge |
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Summary
.github/workflows/release.ymlthat extracts each Linux AppImage, replaces the broken absolute.DirIconsymlink with a relative one, repacks withappimagetool, and re-uploads to the releaseBackground
This is a workaround for tauri-apps/tauri#15110 —
tauri-bundlerbakes an absolute path (pointing to the CI runner's build directory) into the.DirIconsymlink inside the AppImage squashfs. Tools likeapp-managerfollow this symlink to extract the app icon during installation and fail because the path doesn't exist on the user's machine.Tracked in: #202
Test plan
app-manager install.DirIconinside the repacked AppImage is a relative symlink (Krillnotes.png)Notes
Once tauri-apps/tauri#15141 or #15404 is merged upstream, this workaround will be safe to keep — it will simply overwrite an already-correct symlink with the same value.
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