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fix(tools): enforce exact Helm version pin in check-tools/setup-tools - #2702

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Summary

Make Helm version checking exact rather than major-version-only, so make tools-check and make tools-setup actually catch and fix the drift that pkg/oci's OCI-chart tests already treat as a hard failure.

Motivation / Context

TestHelmPinnedVersionExplicitVersionPull requires the exact Helm version pinned in .settings.yaml, but tools/check-tools compared Helm by major version only, so a patch-version mismatch (v4.2.4 installed vs. v4.3.0 pinned) showed a passing checkmark right before that same drift failed the test. tools/setup-tools had the matching gap on the install side: it only checked for Helm's presence, so a stale Homebrew install was never upgraded to the pin.

Fixes: N/A
Related: N/A

Type of Change

  • Bug fix (non-breaking change that fixes an issue)
  • New feature (non-breaking change that adds functionality)
  • Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to change)
  • Documentation update
  • Refactoring (no functional changes)
  • Build/CI/tooling

Component(s) Affected

  • CLI (cmd/aicr, pkg/cli)
  • API server (cmd/aicrd, pkg/server)
  • Recipe engine / data (pkg/recipe)
  • Bundlers (pkg/bundler, pkg/component/*)
  • Collectors / snapshotter (pkg/collector, pkg/snapshotter)
  • Validator (pkg/validator)
  • Core libraries (pkg/errors, pkg/k8s)
  • Docs/examples (docs/, examples/)
  • Other: tools/check-tools, tools/setup-tools (dev tooling)

Implementation Notes

check-tools's Helm entry switches match_strategy from major to strict_exact. setup-tools now reads the installed Helm version up front, compares it against HELM_VERSION, and on macOS runs brew upgrade helm when a stale install is found instead of skipping straight past it because command_exists helm was true. It re-checks the version after install/upgrade and errors out with guidance if Homebrew's current stable release still doesn't match the pin, since Homebrew can't install an arbitrary older Helm release.

Testing

# Commands run (prefer `make qualify` for non-trivial changes)
make qualify

make qualify passed. Also ran the hermetic script tests directly:

bash tools/check-tools-version_test.sh
bash tools/setup-tools_test.sh

Both pass, including the new Helm strict_exact cases (accepts-exact-helm, rejects-mismatched-helm, rejects-unreadable-helm, rejects-missing-helm) and the setup-tools regression guard for the version-compare/brew upgrade behavior.

Risk Assessment

  • Low — Isolated change, well-tested, easy to revert
  • Medium — Touches multiple components or has broader impact
  • High — Breaking change, affects critical paths, or complex rollout

Rollout notes: N/A. Dev-tooling scripts only; no runtime or CI-pipeline behavior changes for anyone whose local Helm is already on the pinned version.

Checklist

  • Tests pass locally (make test with -race)
  • Linter passes (make lint)
  • I did not skip/disable tests to make CI green
  • I added/updated tests for new functionality
  • I updated docs if user-facing behavior changed
  • Changes follow existing patterns in the codebase
  • Commits are cryptographically signed (git commit -S) — GPG signing info

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The change enforces exact Helm version matching in check-tools. Helm setup detects installed versions, selects the correct Homebrew action, and validates the pinned version after installation. Tests cover matching, mismatched, unreadable, invalid, and missing Helm states.

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Helm setup and validation now enforce the configured exact version, including stale Homebrew installations and post-install verification. No current merge-blocking risk was identified.

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In `@tools/setup-tools`:
- Line 421: Update the Helm version-mismatch diagnostic in the platform-specific
installation flow so the Homebrew/current-stable explanation is emitted only for
macOS; in the Linux branch, use a generic message instructing manual
installation of the pinned HELM_VERSION. Keep the existing mismatch validation
and version references unchanged.
- Line 398: Update the Helm setup logic around installed_helm_version to
determine Homebrew ownership with brew list --versions helm, selecting brew
upgrade only when a Homebrew Helm record exists and brew install otherwise;
retain PATH version handling separately. Add a hermetic macOS regression case
covering a stale manually installed helm binary with no Homebrew Helm record.

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In `@tools/setup-tools_test.sh`:
- Around line 90-102: The Helm test currently verifies only source text rather
than runtime behavior. Replace or supplement the grep-only checks in the test
with hermetic mocked helm and brew scenarios that exercise the setup decision
logic: assert stale Homebrew-managed Helm invokes brew upgrade helm, stale
unmanaged PATH Helm invokes brew install helm, and a post-install version
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In `@tools/setup-tools`:
- Around line 206-208: Make both Helm version-mismatch branches in install_helm
return non-zero after log_error, and update the related setup-tools test to
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Comment thread tools/setup-tools
check-tools compared helm by major version only, so a patch-version
mismatch against the .settings.yaml pin (e.g. v4.2.4 installed vs
v4.3.0 pinned) reported a false pass while pkg/oci's OCI-chart tests
still fail on that same drift. Switch helm's match_strategy to
strict_exact.

setup-tools only checked for helm's presence before installing, so a
stale Homebrew install was never upgraded to the pinned version and
setup-tools reported success without noticing the drift. Compare the
installed version against HELM_VERSION before and after the install
step, and use brew upgrade when a stale Homebrew install is found.

Return non-zero from install_helm on a post-install version mismatch
instead of just logging: setup-tools calls it unguarded, so with
set -euo pipefail this now aborts setup instead of reporting success
with an incompatible Helm. Fix the matching test gap: the mismatch
case's failure was invisible to run_install_helm's own set -e because
it ran as the tested command of an if in the caller, and bash ignores
-e for the full extent of a compound command under test that way --
including nested subshells that re-enable it themselves. Capture the
exit code explicitly instead. Also replace the Helm version literals
used across these tests with obviously-fake values (e.g. 9.9.9)
instead of numbers that happen to match the real .settings.yaml pin,
so a future Helm bump doesn't look like it needs a matching test edit.

Signed-off-by: Mike Cook <micook@nvidia.com>
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mikecook force-pushed the fix/check-tools-helm-strict-pin branch from c8c9c45 to 88aee1b Compare September 11, 2026 23:08
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mikecook marked this pull request as ready for review September 11, 2026 23:34
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mchmarny merged commit 48892db into NVIDIA:main Sep 12, 2026
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