#513 fix(ci): a pre-main merge produces a downloadable macOS Silicon staging build

[Anonymous]

Originally created by: adityaharishch

Merging to pre-main was supposed to cut a downloadable staging build. It wasn't: release-prepare created an empty draft release and no build ran. Three distinct failures, all fixed here.

1. The build never fired (token recursion guard)

semantic-release pushed the version tag with the checkout's default GITHUB_TOKEN. GitHub does not re-trigger workflows for refs pushed with GITHUB_TOKEN, so release-build.yml (whose only trigger is push: tags: v*-staging* - it lives only on pre-main, unreachable by dispatch/workflow_run) never woke. Fix: persist GH_TOKEN (org PAT) as the checkout credential so the tag push is user-attributed and fires the build.

2. The build didn't compile (tauri/custom-protocol)

The compile step's single-invocation trick (-- -p meridian --bin meridian) collided with the --features tauri/custom-protocol Tauri injects - cargo applied it to the daemon scope, which has no tauri dep. Every platform died with the package 'meridian' does not contain this feature. Fix: two cargo invocations (daemon, then tray).

3. Even fixed, it couldn't publish (all-3-platforms gate)

Publish hard-required darwin-x86_64 + windows-x86_64. Made staging Apple-Silicon-only - same call as CI: dropped the x86_64 matrix leg and the Windows job; relaxed the publish completeness check and compose-updater-manifest.py REQUIRED to darwin-aarch64. One-line restorable.

Result

Merging this to pre-main runs the fixed release-prepare (PAT tag push) → fires the fixed release-build → produces the signed/notarized macOS Apple Silicon DMG, published to the staging release + updater-staging channel, automatically on this and every future merge.

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Ticket changed by: adityaharishch

• status: open --> closed