The fork takes its own name everywhere a user can see it: binaries
(voculinux, voculinux-gui), desktop entry, autostart, tray, D-Bus
namespace (com.voculinux.Voculinux, no alias for the old name),
config/data/cache dirs, single-instance lock, IBus engine identity,
tray icons, resource prefixes, VOCULINUX_* environment names, and the
update-checker user agent. The internal Python module stays vocalinux
and the distribution metadata keeps the upstream URLs as provenance.
On first run a previous Vocalinux install's config.json, custom
dictionary, and portal restore token are copied once into the new
locations (new config always wins, no merge, no write-back); models
re-resolve through the pinned-checksum download path. An offline
naming-sweep test proves no old-name strings remain on user-visible
surfaces outside the allowlist.
Refs #18
* fix(installer): add upgrade mode that keeps the existing configuration
Re-running install.sh on an existing install replayed first-time setup:
the mode menu offered only interactive or automatic, automatic mode
forced whisper.cpp regardless of the configured engine, and nothing said
config.json would be kept, even though docs/UPDATE.md promised the
installer updates in place and preserves configuration.
Detect an existing install early (venv activate + config.json) and offer
an upgrade path:
- The curl|bash mode menu gains 'Upgrade (keep current settings)' as the
default when an install is detected; the guided setup offers it first
too.
- A --upgrade flag runs the same path non-interactively for scripts, and
falls back to a normal automatic install when nothing is installed.
- Upgrade mode reads speech_recognition.engine from the existing
config.json instead of forcing whisper.cpp, reuses the venv, updates
that engine's dependencies, and rebuilds pywhispercpp only when the
installed version drifts from the pinned release or GPU support is
missing.
- config.json is never modified: every engine path that may rewrite it
(parakeet, faster_whisper, the whisper.cpp -> vosk fallback) goes
through a wrapper that is a logged no-op in upgrade mode, and
verify_configured_engine reports an unimportable configured engine
instead of repairing the file.
- The installer prints 'Existing configuration found at
~/.config/vocalinux/config.json - it will be kept.' when it detects
one.
Update docs/UPDATE.md with the upgrade behavior and add
tests/test_installer_upgrade.py covering detection, the mode menu
default, engine resolution from config, config immutability, the guided
offer, --upgrade parsing, and an end-to-end pty run of the piped
installer.
Fixes#1009
* test(installer): isolate the upgrade pty test from host changes
Skip system-dependency and model steps in the end-to-end installer run
so the only host-mutating calls are gated out entirely; the timed
interrupt is no longer the only thing between the marker and sudo.
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Co-authored-by: Jatin K Malik <jatinkrmalik@gmail.com>
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