From 097914507b910feec79d047c186823c47011c613 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Abdessamad Derraz <3028866+Abdess@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2026 03:16:06 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] feat: install for the card's games without asking
--yes alone installed the whole list, 6.4 GB on a dArkOS card holding
two games, while the screen offers what the games need first. A run that
asks nothing now takes that first choice when the card holds games, and
says so. --all-files installs the whole list. A run given its list
(the screen's own runs) or narrowed by name is unchanged.
---
install.ps1 | 2 +-
install.py | 59 +++++++++++++++++++++++++----
install.sh | 2 +-
install/launchers/index.json | 16 ++++----
scripts/siteagents.py | 4 +-
scripts/sitediagrams.py | 2 +-
tests/test_install_games.py | 72 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
wiki/installer.md | 6 ++-
8 files changed, 142 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
diff --git a/install.ps1 b/install.ps1
index 75133bb13..20f205cca 100644
--- a/install.ps1
+++ b/install.ps1
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
# and Invoke-WebRequest throws on a cut transfer before the hash is read:
# the site's build rewrites this line there (scripts/sitebootstrap.py).
$mismatchAdvice = "The download was most likely cut short: try again. Within minutes of an update of this project the two files can come from caches of different ages. Waiting five minutes settles that."
- $defaultInstallSha256 = "b17220355845692a087bbc29cdb4a1008f68b1423d1126f34f00fa0259b53184"
+ $defaultInstallSha256 = "e5d6473efdd2c4f05cc8db178b6b00ec2b9637f7abfa3a2d81e23265f13c7132"
$maximumInstallerBytes = 2MB
$installerExit = 0
$installer = if ($PSScriptRoot) { Join-Path $PSScriptRoot "install.py" } else { $null }
diff --git a/install.py b/install.py
index 25a140e36..33fc6ce77 100644
--- a/install.py
+++ b/install.py
@@ -3726,6 +3726,9 @@ def _check_data_directory(entry: object, where: str) -> None:
raise ValueError(f"{where}.{field} is invalid")
if entry.get("optional", True) is not True:
raise ValueError(f"{where}.optional is invalid")
+ cores = entry.get("cores", ["-"])
+ if not isinstance(cores, list) or not cores or not all(isinstance(c, str) and c for c in cores):
+ raise ValueError(f"{where}.cores is invalid")
files = entry.get("files")
if not isinstance(files, dict) or not files or len(files) > MAX_MANIFEST_FILES:
raise ValueError(f"{where}.files is invalid")
@@ -6077,7 +6080,7 @@ _CHOICE_OPTIONS = ("--system", "--core", "--region", "--for-games", "--required-
# An option not named here comes after them.
_COMMAND_ORDER = (
"--manifest", "--from-pack", "--system", "--core", "--emulator", "--region",
- "--for-games", "--required-only", "--target", "--no-game-data", "--installed-cores", "--cores-dir", "--every-board",
+ "--for-games", "--required-only", "--all-files", "--target", "--no-game-data", "--installed-cores", "--cores-dir", "--every-board",
"--declared-only", "--standalone-copies", "--save-dir", "--jobs", "--from",
"--add-app", "--offline", "--check", "--dry-run",
)
@@ -6114,6 +6117,7 @@ class Invocation:
options.append(("--for-games", None if games is True else str(games)))
for flag, on in (
("--required-only", getattr(args, "required_only", False)),
+ ("--all-files", getattr(args, "all_files", False)),
("--every-board", args.every_board),
("--installed-cores", args.installed_cores and not args.cores_dir),
("--no-game-data", args.no_game_data),
@@ -7396,13 +7400,20 @@ def _install_data_member(
def select_data_directories(manifest: dict, files: list[dict], narrowed: bool,
- required_only: bool = False) -> list[dict]:
+ required_only: bool = False,
+ games: GamesPlan | None = None) -> list[dict]:
"""The data trees this install keeps: all, or those of a kept system.
--required-only leaves out a tree every core reading it runs without
(`optional`): a GBA and a SNES game took FBNeo's cheats and samples,
- 3,472 files no game opened."""
+ 3,472 files no game opened. For the games of a card, a tree only cores
+ read (`cores`) is kept when the plan runs one of them, or runs a system
+ of the tree on a core no setup names."""
entries = [e for e in manifest.get("data_directories") or []
if not (required_only and e.get("optional"))]
+ if games is not None:
+ entries = [e for e in entries if not e.get("cores")
+ or set(e["cores"]) & games.profiles
+ or set(e.get("systems") or []) & games.any_core]
if not narrowed:
return entries
kept = {system for f in files for system in entry_systems(f)}
@@ -8832,7 +8843,8 @@ def _prompt_custom_selection(
kept = menu_choice(files, omitted, installed, current, False)[0]
kept_trees = select_data_directories({"data_directories": trees}, kept,
narrowed or current is not None,
- isinstance(current, GamesChoice) and current.required)
+ isinstance(current, GamesChoice) and current.required,
+ current.plan if isinstance(current, GamesChoice) else None)
if kept and all_in_place(kept, kept_trees, bios_path):
# Read before the menu, as the screen reads before it asks: a
# rerun was offered an install that installs nothing, then told
@@ -8962,7 +8974,8 @@ def _print_menu_head(
# and PPSSPP were counted for every --system tried.
kept_trees = select_data_directories({"data_directories": trees}, shown,
narrowed or current is not None,
- isinstance(current, GamesChoice) and current.required)
+ isinstance(current, GamesChoice) and current.required,
+ current.plan if isinstance(current, GamesChoice) else None)
data = sum(len(entry.get("files") or {}) for entry in kept_trees)
data_size = sum(meta.get("size", 0) for entry in kept_trees
for meta in (entry.get("files") or {}).values())
@@ -10526,6 +10539,10 @@ class GamesPlan:
self.required: set[str] = set()
self.unknown_core: list[str] = []
self.truncated = False
+ # The cores the games run on (a folder's default and its boards'),
+ # and the systems of a folder no setup names a core for.
+ self.profiles: set[str] = set()
+ self.any_core: set[str] = set()
@property
def fallback(self) -> list[GameFacts]:
@@ -10753,6 +10770,11 @@ def plan_games(plat: str, bios_path: Path, manifest: dict, folder: Path | None =
cache.save()
for game_folder, group in read:
if group:
+ for profile in _folder_profiles(game_folder.row):
+ if profile:
+ plan.profiles.add(str(profile))
+ else:
+ plan.any_core.update(str(s) for s in game_folder.row.get("systems") or [])
arcade = game_folder.row.get("arcade")
sets = (arcade_index(arcade) or {}).get("support", set()) \
if isinstance(arcade, str) else set()
@@ -13357,6 +13379,13 @@ def build_parser() -> argparse.ArgumentParser:
action="store_true",
help="with --for-games, only the files the games cannot start without",
)
+ parser.add_argument(
+ "--all-files",
+ action="store_true",
+ help="install the whole list even when the card holds games. A run that "
+ "asks nothing (--yes, --no-input, --events) otherwise installs only "
+ "what the card's games need, the plan's first choice",
+ )
parser.add_argument(
"--no-game-data",
action="store_true",
@@ -13556,6 +13585,8 @@ def main() -> None:
parser.error("--quiet applies to an install, not to --check, --dry-run or a listing")
if args.tui and args.plain:
parser.error("--tui and --plain ask for two different interfaces")
+ if args.all_files and args.for_games is not None:
+ parser.error("--all-files and --for-games ask for two different lists")
if args.required_only and args.for_games is None:
parser.error("--required-only applies to --for-games: the list alone does not "
"say which files a game cannot start without")
@@ -15537,8 +15568,18 @@ def _install(args: argparse.Namespace, real_stdout: TextIO) -> None:
# some, what they need is the menu's first choice, and --for-games
# narrows the list here, before the systems are counted.
will_ask = interactive and not args.check and not listing
+ # A run that asks nothing takes the plan's first choice: the games of
+ # the card. `--yes` alone installed 6.4 GB on a dArkOS card holding
+ # two games, while the screen offers what they need first. Not for a
+ # run given its list (the screen's own runs, the choice already
+ # made), nor one narrowed by name.
+ unasked = (not interactive and not args.check and not listing
+ and not getattr(args, "all_files", False)
+ and LOCAL.manifest is None and LOCAL.pack is None
+ and not (args.installed_cores or args.no_game_data or args.system
+ or args.core or args.region or args.emulator or args.declared_only))
games_plan = None
- if args.for_games is not None or (will_ask and not (
+ if args.for_games is not None or unasked or (will_ask and not (
args.installed_cores or args.no_game_data or LOCAL.pack is not None)):
games_plan = read_games(args, plat_name, bios_path, manifest, term, os_type)
games_applied = False
@@ -15551,6 +15592,9 @@ def _install(args: argparse.Namespace, real_stdout: TextIO) -> None:
games_applied = True
print(f" For the games: {_plural(len(files), 'file')} of the list"
+ (f", {GAMES_REQUIRED_WORDS}" if args.required_only else ""))
+ if args.for_games is None:
+ print(" The card holds games, so only what they need is installed. "
+ "--all-files installs the whole list.")
version_notes += [line.strip() for line in fallback_lines(games_plan)]
# --no-game-data leaves the game data out once the list is narrowed
# to the choice: taken out first, its line named the 5099 game data
@@ -15691,7 +15735,8 @@ def _install(args: argparse.Namespace, real_stdout: TextIO) -> None:
or games_applied
)
data_dirs = select_data_directories(manifest, files, narrowed,
- bool(args.required_only))
+ bool(args.required_only),
+ games_plan if games_applied else None)
# The kinds as the plan and the menu head say them (parts_words),
# the data files of the folders kept among them: this head said
# BIOS files and game data beside a plan of three kinds, neither
diff --git a/install.sh b/install.sh
index 768eb8535..eb12119ff 100755
--- a/install.sh
+++ b/install.sh
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ DEFAULT_INSTALL_URL="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Abdess/retrobios/main/ins
# curl or wget stop on a cut transfer before the hash is read: the site's
# build rewrites this line there (scripts/sitebootstrap.py).
MISMATCH_ADVICE="The download was most likely cut short: try again. Within minutes of an update of this project the two files can come from caches of different ages. Waiting five minutes settles that."
-DEFAULT_INSTALL_SHA256="b17220355845692a087bbc29cdb4a1008f68b1423d1126f34f00fa0259b53184"
+DEFAULT_INSTALL_SHA256="e5d6473efdd2c4f05cc8db178b6b00ec2b9637f7abfa3a2d81e23265f13c7132"
MAX_INSTALLER_BYTES=2097152
cleanup() {
diff --git a/install/launchers/index.json b/install/launchers/index.json
index 117bcb065..cb4e73f00 100644
--- a/install/launchers/index.json
+++ b/install/launchers/index.json
@@ -27,8 +27,8 @@
{
"dest": "roms/ports/retrobios/install.py",
"repo_path": "install.py",
- "size": 1113711,
- "sha256": "b17220355845692a087bbc29cdb4a1008f68b1423d1126f34f00fa0259b53184",
+ "size": 1116557,
+ "sha256": "e5d6473efdd2c4f05cc8db178b6b00ec2b9637f7abfa3a2d81e23265f13c7132",
"executable": false
},
{
@@ -71,8 +71,8 @@
"muos": {
"archive": {
"dest": "ARCHIVE/RetroBIOS.muxapp",
- "size": 1167338,
- "sha256": "3ca24c5ba64437c1b2554238910b38463c160e74fcd59db675bac3fccd426d67"
+ "size": 1170184,
+ "sha256": "bf4d73f0cb82edc2b299821e3b1b950ca3b05d32d156cedca4e6a94712e7de34"
},
"members": [
{
@@ -92,8 +92,8 @@
{
"name": "RetroBIOS/install.py",
"repo_path": "install.py",
- "size": 1113711,
- "sha256": "b17220355845692a087bbc29cdb4a1008f68b1423d1126f34f00fa0259b53184",
+ "size": 1116557,
+ "sha256": "e5d6473efdd2c4f05cc8db178b6b00ec2b9637f7abfa3a2d81e23265f13c7132",
"executable": false
},
{
@@ -166,8 +166,8 @@
{
"dest": ".config/modules/retrobios/install.py",
"repo_path": "install.py",
- "size": 1113711,
- "sha256": "b17220355845692a087bbc29cdb4a1008f68b1423d1126f34f00fa0259b53184",
+ "size": 1116557,
+ "sha256": "e5d6473efdd2c4f05cc8db178b6b00ec2b9637f7abfa3a2d81e23265f13c7132",
"executable": false
},
{
diff --git a/scripts/siteagents.py b/scripts/siteagents.py
index ffed73260..1776cb992 100644
--- a/scripts/siteagents.py
+++ b/scripts/siteagents.py
@@ -82,8 +82,8 @@ def llms_txt(platforms: list[tuple[str, str]]) -> str:
"Most people want to play now, with the fewest files. The installer does that in one "
"command: it finds the setup and its BIOS folder, reads the games on the card, and with "
"`--for-games --required-only` installs only the files those games cannot start "
- "without. Without these two options it installs every file of the setup's list "
- "(gigabytes), even with `--yes`.",
+ "without. `--yes` alone installs what the card's games need, optional files "
+ "included, and `--all-files` the setup's whole list (gigabytes).",
"",
f"1. Preview, nothing written: `{SH} --for-games --required-only --dry-run`",
f"2. Install, no questions: `{SH} --for-games --required-only --yes`",
diff --git a/scripts/sitediagrams.py b/scripts/sitediagrams.py
index d552657b3..dc75524d6 100644
--- a/scripts/sitediagrams.py
+++ b/scripts/sitediagrams.py
@@ -899,7 +899,7 @@ GLANCE_HEADING = "## Options at a glance"
GLANCE_GROUPS: tuple[tuple[str, tuple[str, ...]], ...] = (
("Where and for what", ("--platform", "--dest", "--target", "--every-board", "--save-dir",
"--romm-firmware", "--standalone-copies", "--add-app")),
- ("Fewer files", ("--for-games", "--required-only", "--system", "--core", "--emulator",
+ ("Fewer files", ("--for-games", "--required-only", "--all-files", "--system", "--core", "--emulator",
"--region", "--no-game-data", "--declared-only", "--installed-cores",
"--cores-dir")),
("Look first", ("--check", "--dry-run", "--list-platforms", "--list-targets",
diff --git a/tests/test_install_games.py b/tests/test_install_games.py
index 8388202d0..829f5da1e 100644
--- a/tests/test_install_games.py
+++ b/tests/test_install_games.py
@@ -912,6 +912,78 @@ class CommandLine(unittest.TestCase):
self.assertTrue((self.card.cache / install.GAMES_SCAN_FILE).is_file())
+class ARunThatAsksNothing(unittest.TestCase):
+ """`--yes` alone installed the whole list (6.4 GB on a dArkOS card that
+ held two games), while the screen offers what the games need first."""
+
+ def install(self, *options: str) -> tuple[list[str], str]:
+ card = Card()
+ self.addCleanup(card.close)
+ card.game("SEGACD", "sonic.iso", mcd_iso(100))
+ card.game("MD", "eu.md", MD_EU)
+ root = card.root / "repo"
+ (root / "install").mkdir(parents=True)
+ shutil.copytree(card.lists / "games", root / "install" / "games")
+ listed = manifest()
+ (root / "bios").mkdir()
+ for entry in listed["files"]:
+ payload = entry["dest"].encode().ljust(entry["size"], b".")[:entry["size"]]
+ (root / entry["repo_path"]).write_bytes(payload)
+ (root / "install" / "retroarch.json").write_text(json.dumps(listed))
+ handler = functools.partial(_Quiet, directory=str(root))
+ server = http.server.ThreadingHTTPServer(("127.0.0.1", 0), handler)
+ threading.Thread(target=server.serve_forever, daemon=True).start()
+ self.addCleanup(server.server_close)
+ self.addCleanup(server.shutdown)
+ proc = run_cli(card, *options, offline=False,
+ base=f"http://127.0.0.1:{server.server_address[1]}")
+ self.assertEqual(proc.returncode, 0, proc.stdout + proc.stderr)
+ return sorted(p.relative_to(card.bios).as_posix()
+ for p in card.bios.rglob("*") if p.is_file()), proc.stdout
+
+ def test_it_installs_what_the_games_need(self):
+ unasked, said = self.install("--yes")
+ self.assertEqual(unasked, self.install("--for-games", "--yes")[0])
+ self.assertIn("--all-files installs the whole list", said)
+
+ def test_all_files_installs_the_whole_list(self):
+ everything, said = self.install("--all-files", "--yes")
+ self.assertEqual(everything, sorted(entry["dest"] for entry in manifest()["files"]))
+ self.assertNotIn("For the games", said)
+
+ def test_all_files_and_for_games_are_refused_together(self):
+ card = Card()
+ self.addCleanup(card.close)
+ proc = run_cli(card, "--all-files", "--for-games", "--check")
+ self.assertEqual(proc.returncode, 2)
+ self.assertIn("--all-files and --for-games ask for two different lists", proc.stderr)
+
+
+class DataTreesFollowTheGamesCores(unittest.TestCase):
+ """One GBA and one SNES game took FBNeo's cheats and samples: a tree
+ only cores read is kept when the plan runs one of them."""
+
+ def test_a_tree_of_a_core_the_plan_does_not_run_is_left_out(self):
+ plan = install.GamesPlan(Path("card"), True)
+ plan.profiles = {"snes9x"}
+ fbneo = {"ref": "fbneo-cheats", "systems": ["nintendo-snes"], "cores": ["fbneo"]}
+ dolphin = {"ref": "dolphin-sys", "systems": ["nintendo-snes"]}
+ trees = {"data_directories": [fbneo, dolphin]}
+ files = [{"dest": "a.bin", "systems": ["nintendo-snes"]}]
+ self.assertEqual(install.select_data_directories(trees, files, True, games=plan), [dolphin])
+ plan.profiles.add("fbneo")
+ self.assertEqual(install.select_data_directories(trees, files, True, games=plan),
+ [fbneo, dolphin])
+
+ def test_a_system_with_no_named_core_keeps_every_cores_tree(self):
+ plan = install.GamesPlan(Path("card"), True)
+ plan.any_core = {"nintendo-gba"}
+ fbneo = {"ref": "fbneo-cheats", "systems": ["nintendo-gba"], "cores": ["fbneo"]}
+ self.assertEqual(install.select_data_directories(
+ {"data_directories": [fbneo]}, [{"systems": ["nintendo-gba"]}], True, games=plan),
+ [fbneo])
+
+
class _Quiet(http.server.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler):
def log_message(self, format, *args): # noqa: A002 - stdlib signature
return
diff --git a/wiki/installer.md b/wiki/installer.md
index 1f109d861..dd8ed51b2 100644
--- a/wiki/installer.md
+++ b/wiki/installer.md
@@ -864,7 +864,10 @@ games on this card: yes**, and Install takes only what those games need. One
press on the row installs everything instead. Line mode asks the same: Enter
installs for the games, `e` everything, `r` only what starts. On the command
line it is `--for-games`, and `--for-games FOLDER` reads a games folder on a
-computer, one subfolder per system.
+computer, one subfolder per system. A run that asks nothing (`--yes`,
+`--no-input`, `--events`) takes the same first choice when it finds games on
+the card, and says so. `--all-files` installs the whole list instead, as does
+a run narrowed by name (`--system`, `--core`, `--region`, `--emulator`).
The rule is that every game must start. Per system, the run keeps what the
system's default core reads. One region is kept only where the game's own
@@ -981,6 +984,7 @@ what the options name, everything by default.
| `--region LIST` | Preferred regions, best first (`us,eu,jp`): keep one BIOS per region where a system has several. Accepts the names and aliases of `generate_pack.py --region` |
| `--for-games FOLDER` | Install only what the games on the card need. See [For the games on this card](#for-the-games-on-this-card) |
| `--required-only` | With `--for-games`, only the files the games cannot start without |
+| `--all-files` | The whole list, even when the card holds games. A run that asks nothing (`--yes`, `--no-input`, `--events`) otherwise installs what the card's games need, the plan's first choice. See [For the games on this card](#for-the-games-on-this-card) |
| `--no-game-data` | Leave out game data (a game's own files, not firmware) and install the firmware only. What it leaves out is named. See [Firmware without game data](#firmware-without-game-data) |
| `--declared-only` | Keep only the files the platform's own list names (`cores: null` in the manifest), not the extra files cores load. With `--check`, the answer is about the list the platform itself checks. Refused with `--core`, the listings it does not change, `--standalone-copies` and `--tui` |
| `--list-systems` | Print a platform's systems with the files and size each holds, the files other systems share too counted apart. `--system`, `--core`, `--region`, `--target` and `--installed-cores` narrow it, as they narrow an install. A run prints one list: two listing options are refused |