scripts/guibuild.py

@@ -381,6 +381,8 @@ def build_velopack(version: str) -> Path:
         setup = next(iter(sorted(releases_dir.glob(f"*{artifact_ext}"))), None)
     if setup is None:
         raise RuntimeError(f"vpk produced no *{artifact_ext} in {releases_dir}")
+    if sys.platform == "darwin":
+        force_macos_user_install(setup)
     artifact = (
         _REPO_ROOT
         / "build"
@@ -391,6 +393,46 @@ def build_velopack(version: str) -> Path:
     return artifact
 
 
+def force_macos_user_install(pkg: Path) -> None:
+    """Restrict the Velopack-generated pkg to per-user installs (~/Applications).
+
+    Velopack hardcodes two install domains (currentUserHome + localSystem) in
+    the distribution XML. System installs land in /Applications, which the
+    user may not own — Velopack's UpdateMac then cannot replace the .app on
+    auto-update. With a single domain, macOS Installer skips the Destination
+    Select page and installs to ~/Applications without admin rights.
+
+    Also drops the `sudo -u "$USER"` prefix from Velopack's postinstall
+    script: under a per-user install the script already runs as the
+    installing user, and sudo would fail for lack of a tty.
+    """
+    expanded = pkg.with_name(pkg.stem + "-expanded")
+    shutil.rmtree(expanded, ignore_errors=True)
+    # --expand-full also expands the component pkg, exposing its Scripts dir
+    subprocess.run(["pkgutil", "--expand-full", str(pkg), str(expanded)], check=True)
+
+    dist_xml = expanded / "Distribution"
+    xml = dist_xml.read_text()
+    new_xml, count = re.subn(
+        r"<domains [^>]*/>",
+        '<domains enable_anywhere="false" enable_currentUserHome="true" enable_localSystem="false" />',
+        xml,
+    )
+    if count != 1:
+        raise RuntimeError("Unexpected distribution.xml: <domains> not found")
+    dist_xml.write_text(new_xml)
+
+    postinstalls = list(expanded.glob("*.pkg/Scripts/postinstall"))
+    if len(postinstalls) != 1:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"Unexpected pkg layout: postinstalls={postinstalls}")
+    postinstall = postinstalls[0]
+    script = postinstall.read_text()
+    postinstall.write_text(script.replace('sudo -u "$USER" ', ""))
+
+    subprocess.run(["pkgutil", "--flatten", str(expanded), str(pkg)], check=True)
+    shutil.rmtree(expanded)
+
+
 def read_version() -> str:
     """Read version via setuptools_scm (same logic as hatch-vcs)."""
     return setuptools_scm.get_version(root=str(_REPO_ROOT))