openclaw-bun-upgrade

OpenClaw Bun Upgrade

Purpose

Move an authorized Linux OpenClaw service to one verified Bun artifact while preserving its deployment owner, application source, state and active work. Keep source synchronization, build publication and runtime promotion as separate outcomes.

When to use

• Updating an OpenClaw Bun fork or selecting a daily build for a service.
• Building and qualifying a pinned Bun artifact for staged host promotion.
• Auditing how a service selects Bun, or preparing its runtime rollback.

The build and service recipes below cover Linux ELF and systemd deployments. For macOS or Windows, report the missing platform-specific qualification and service-owner route; do not apply Linux commands to those hosts. Source ancestry and immutable artifact selection principles still apply.

An audit does not authorize deployment. A runtime upgrade does not authorize an OpenClaw update, state migration, service-owner migration or automatic scheduler.

Workflow

1. Bind scope and coordination. Name the hosts, deployment order, exact source, requested actions and completion conditions. Read each host's current owner instructions. If another recovery thread owns the host, exchange active command, lease and reservation status; wait for its explicit release before host commands or relay use. A release resolves coordination, not admission.
2. Audit actual selection. Resolve service UID/GID and NSS home, native versus external owner, unit plus drop-ins, effective executable and live PID/start identity, application source/build, config revision and schema. Inspect native runtime pins, update runs and rollback custody. Shell bun --version, PATH, an old current link or a campaign label is not running-service proof.
3. Freeze source and artifact. Read Build qualification. Reuse qualified objects and one artifact. Preserve upstream ancestry with a normal merge when requested; verify reachability rather than judging the PR's displayed diff. Freeze the full commit/tree before building. A newer daily candidate does not invalidate work on an already selected commit.
4. Qualify the candidate. Match CPU baseline and ELF requirements to every target. Test the changed Bun bug class and actual OpenClaw consumers, with candidate identity inside workers. Scope carried proof to unchanged inputs. A successful build or generic smoke test alone is insufficient.
5. Prepare promotion. Read Native promotion. Stage a versioned artifact, verify hash/ownership as the service account and establish rollback through the same deployment owner. Check the directory that must permit atomic replacement, not only the selected file. Do all expensive build and preflight work before acquiring a short maintenance lease.
6. Admit and activate once. Use the deployed owner's native preserving admission, operation lock and service lifecycle. Live work blocks promotion unless that owner's exact durable continuation contract proves otherwise. Do not generalize a previously safe paused task or reuse another host's waiver. Lease, process or configuration drift stops activation. Uncertain mutation means reconcile the existing attempt; do not replay it.
7. Verify the successor. Prove its actual executable hash, UID/cgroup and new process identity; unchanged application/config/schema when only Bun changed; restored admission; preserved task generations, payloads and bindings; health and an affected real consumer. Inspect relevant new-process errors. Report synthetic proof separately from live delivery or a naturally observed GC cycle.
8. Promote the next host only after the first passes. Each host gets fresh ownership and admission proof; artifact compatibility may be reused. If blocked, report the precise failed gate and release command/lease/reservation custody. Preserve another owner's recovery material. Do not keep polling after a bounded check or retry an unchanged failure.
9. Close out. Report source sync, artifact qualification, per-host deployed identity, remaining blockers and checkout disposition separately. Release the task's builder and child processes. Keep the previous runtime while rollback needs it, and the candidate while another authorized rollout remains unfinished. Dispose of task scratch through its owner when no unfinished work needs it.