Seafile discontinued linux-clients.seafile.com: it resolves but accepts
no connections on 80 or 443, and the official docs no longer mention APT
at all. Every `docker build` has failed since. Upstream now ships the CLI
as an AppImage, so install 9.0.19 from the download site.
The AppImage is unpacked rather than executed. Running one needs FUSE and
so a privileged container, and its self-extraction also fails when the
build host cannot execute the payload's architecture. Unpacking the
appended squashfs directly avoids both.
Also add the bundled seafile/pysearpc bindings to the venv path. The APT
package installed them system-wide, where `venv --system-site-packages`
picked them up; dsc imports seafile directly for RPC, not only through
seaf-cli, so it broke when that implicit dependency went away.
Drops apt-key, pins the version, and verifies a SHA256 before unpacking.
Build-time smoke checks assert the seaf-cli subcommands and the app's own
imports.
Note: the AppImage is x86_64-only, and upstream publishes no digest or
signature, so the pinned checksum is trust-on-first-use.
The list-form environment syntax in the README passed quote characters
through as part of the value, so LIBRARY_ID was read as '"<id>"' and no
matching library was found. Switch to mapping syntax, where YAML strips
the quotes.
- Pin the example to a versioned image instead of implicit latest
- Add a checked-in compose.example.yaml
- Validate it with `docker compose config` in CI
- Link the Docker Hub image from the README
Implement automatic retry with exponential backoff (up to 30 attempts)
for 502/503/504 errors. Prevents container crash-loop during server
outages, reducing kernel log spam from repeated restarts.
Add dynamic column width alignment for library names up to 30 chars.
Prevents excessive whitespace when library names vary significantly
in length while maintaining readability for typical names.
Please add some escaping in password env, I have password similar "xxxx&zzzz", and "&" broke syncing:
```
2023-10-16 12:50:04,655 Listing local libraries: seaf-cli list
2023-10-16 12:50:05,108 Syncing library btsync: seaf-cli sync -l 3XX2-XXX-2eXXea -s https://xxxxxxxx.xx -d /dsc/seafile/btsync -u xxx@xx.xx -p ********
-bash: line 1: zzzz: command not found
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/seaf-cli", line 1023, in <module>
main()
File "/usr/bin/seaf-cli", line 1019, in main
args.func(args)
File "/usr/bin/seaf-cli", line 675, in seaf_sync
token = get_token(url, username, password, tfa, conf_dir)
```
Maxim Shulga
snegov
Maks Snegov
dependabot[bot]
subvillion