record Monitor-side installs and dedupe config by file

AppImage/scripts/changes_journal.py

@@ -148,6 +148,43 @@ def read_object(digest: str) -> Optional[str]:
         return None
 
 
+def record_install(packages: str, source: str = "monitor",
+                   function: str = "monitor") -> bool:
+    """Record a package the Monitor installed on the host, so it appears in the
+    installed-packages section like anything the scripts install. The Monitor
+    is Python and cannot use the bash primitives, so it drops a spool entry in
+    the same shape they write; ingest() picks it up and dedupes it by package.
+    """
+    packages = (packages or "").strip()
+    if not packages:
+        return False
+    entry = {
+        "recorded_at": int(time.time()),
+        "class": CLASS_INSTALLATION,
+        "operation": "install_package",
+        "source": source,
+        "function": function,
+        "function_version": "1.0",
+        "target": packages,
+        "installed": packages,
+        "before": "",
+        "after": "",
+        "capture": "created",
+        "revert": "purge",
+        "exactness": "none",
+        "result": "ok",
+    }
+    try:
+        SPOOL.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+        path = SPOOL / f"{entry['recorded_at']}-{os.getpid()}-{os.urandom(4).hex()}.json"
+        tmp = path.with_suffix(".json.tmp")
+        tmp.write_text(json.dumps(entry), encoding="utf-8")
+        os.replace(tmp, path)
+        return True
+    except OSError:
+        return False
+
+
 def ingest(limit: int = 5000) -> int:
     """Move what the scripts wrote into the table.
 

AppImage/scripts/flask_server.py

@@ -10268,6 +10268,17 @@ def _ensure_smart_tools(install_if_missing=False):
             except Exception as e:
                 install_errors.append(f"nvme-cli: {str(e)}")
     
+    # A package installed on the host belongs in the change journal, whoever
+    # installed it — here the Monitor rather than a script.
+    _just = [pkg for pkg, ok in (('smartmontools', installed.get('smartctl')),
+                                 ('nvme-cli', installed.get('nvme'))) if ok]
+    if _just:
+        try:
+            import changes_journal
+            changes_journal.record_install(' '.join(_just), 'monitor', 'install_smart_tools')
+        except Exception:
+            pass
+
     return {
         'smartctl': has_smartctl, 
         'nvme': has_nvme,
@@ -11594,6 +11605,14 @@ def api_smart_tools_install():
                     if not success:
                         all_success = False
 
+                _ok = [pkg for pkg, r in results.items() if r.get('success')]
+                if _ok:
+                    try:
+                        import changes_journal
+                        changes_journal.record_install(' '.join(_ok), 'monitor', 'install_smart_tools')
+                    except Exception:
+                        pass
+
                 tools = _ensure_smart_tools()
 
                 return jsonify({