The staging code added in 4a4b9e3 reads bin/<tool>.gz from the install root, with
DATA_DIR as a fallback; until now only the fallback was populated, by hand. The
payload carries them, so an update refreshes the media tools along with the server.
PAYLOAD ONLY. The boot zip is read by the OS's own zip reader before anything else
runs, and a 73MB one failed outright with "ZipArchive error" — it is ~64KB and stays
that way.
Stored rather than compressed (the archive is -0 throughout) because they are gzipped
already: 3.2MB in the package against 6.7MB of tmpfs once unpacked.
They live in brightsign/media-tools/ and are excluded from the wholesale brightsign/
staging, or the package would carry both copies. A missing file is a hard error, not
a warning: both are tracked, so absence means someone removed them, and the symptom
would otherwise be a player that silently stops making video thumbnails.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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