feat(archsetup): back up system files before in-place edits

Add a backup_system_file helper that snapshots a pre-existing file to <path>.archsetup.bak before archsetup edits it in place, so a botched edit to fstab, mkinitcpio.conf, or sudoers is recoverable. It is idempotent: it never overwrites an existing backup, so the pristine original survives repeated edits within a run and across re-runs. It uses cp -p to preserve mode and ownership.

Only the in-place sed and append edits to pre-existing files route through it (locale.gen, makepkg.conf, pacman.conf, sudoers, wireless-regdom, geoclue.conf, pacman-contrib, fstab, mkinitcpio.conf, vconsole.conf). The brand-new drop-in files archsetup fully owns are skipped: there is no prior state to save, and recovery is just deleting them.

Covered by tests/backup-system-file/ (Normal, Boundary, Error cases, including mode preservation and the no-overwrite guarantee).

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+"""Tests for the backup_system_file helper in the archsetup installer.
+
+backup_system_file snapshots a pre-existing system file to
+`<path>.archsetup.bak` before archsetup edits it in place, so a botched
+in-place edit (fstab, mkinitcpio.conf, sudoers, ...) is recoverable. It is
+idempotent: it never overwrites an existing backup, so the pristine original
+survives repeated edits within a run and across re-runs of the installer. It
+no-ops (success) when the target does not exist.
+
+These tests exercise the REAL function body, extracted from the `archsetup`
+script at run time (not a copy), so the production code path is what runs.
+Edits run against real temp files the test creates and tears down.
+
+Run from repo root:
+    python3 -m unittest tests.backup-system-file.test_backup_system_file
+"""
+
+import os
+import shutil
+import stat
+import subprocess
+import tempfile
+import unittest
+
+
+REPO_ROOT = os.path.abspath(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "..", ".."))
+ARCHSETUP = os.path.join(REPO_ROOT, "archsetup")
+
+
+class BackupHarness(unittest.TestCase):
+    """Source backup_system_file out of the real archsetup script and invoke it."""
+
+    def setUp(self):
+        self.tmp = tempfile.mkdtemp(prefix="backup-system-file-test-")
+        # A bash wrapper that extracts just the backup_system_file function from
+        # the real installer and invokes it with the test's arg. Sourcing the
+        # sed-extracted function means we test the production code path, not a
+        # reimplementation. The helper is self-contained (prints its own
+        # warnings), so no logger stub is needed.
+        self.wrapper = os.path.join(self.tmp, "run.sh")
+        with open(self.wrapper, "w") as f:
+            f.write(
+                "#!/bin/bash\n"
+                'ARCHSETUP="$1"; shift\n'
+                "source <(sed -n '/^backup_system_file() {/,/^}/p' \"$ARCHSETUP\")\n"
+                'backup_system_file "$@"\n'
+            )
+        os.chmod(self.wrapper, 0o755)
+
+    def tearDown(self):
+        # Restore writability in case a test made a dir read-only.
+        for root, dirs, _ in os.walk(self.tmp):
+            for d in dirs:
+                os.chmod(os.path.join(root, d), 0o755)
+        shutil.rmtree(self.tmp, ignore_errors=True)
+
+    def run_backup(self, target):
+        return subprocess.run(
+            ["bash", self.wrapper, ARCHSETUP, target],
+            capture_output=True, text=True, timeout=10,
+        )
+
+    def write(self, name, content, mode=None):
+        path = os.path.join(self.tmp, name)
+        with open(path, "w") as f:
+            f.write(content)
+        if mode is not None:
+            os.chmod(path, mode)
+        return path
+
+
+# -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Normal cases
+# -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+class TestBackupNormal(BackupHarness):
+
+    def test_existing_file_is_backed_up_with_same_content(self):
+        target = self.write("fstab", "UUID=abc / ext4 defaults 0 1\n")
+        result = self.run_backup(target)
+        self.assertEqual(result.returncode, 0, msg=result.stderr)
+        backup = target + ".archsetup.bak"
+        self.assertTrue(os.path.isfile(backup), "backup should be created")
+        with open(backup) as f:
+            self.assertEqual(f.read(), "UUID=abc / ext4 defaults 0 1\n")
+
+    def test_backup_preserves_mode(self):
+        # sudoers ships 0440; a restored backup must keep restrictive perms.
+        target = self.write("sudoers", "root ALL=(ALL) ALL\n", mode=0o440)
+        result = self.run_backup(target)
+        self.assertEqual(result.returncode, 0, msg=result.stderr)
+        backup = target + ".archsetup.bak"
+        self.assertEqual(stat.S_IMODE(os.stat(backup).st_mode), 0o440)
+
+
+# -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Boundary cases
+# -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+class TestBackupBoundary(BackupHarness):
+
+    def test_existing_backup_is_not_overwritten(self):
+        # The pristine original must survive a later edit + second backup call.
+        target = self.write("pacman.conf", "PRISTINE\n")
+        self.assertEqual(self.run_backup(target).returncode, 0)
+        # Simulate archsetup editing the file in place, then backing up again.
+        with open(target, "w") as f:
+            f.write("EDITED\n")
+        result = self.run_backup(target)
+        self.assertEqual(result.returncode, 0, msg=result.stderr)
+        with open(target + ".archsetup.bak") as f:
+            self.assertEqual(f.read(), "PRISTINE\n", "backup must stay pristine")
+
+    def test_missing_target_is_a_quiet_noop(self):
+        target = os.path.join(self.tmp, "never-existed.conf")
+        result = self.run_backup(target)
+        self.assertEqual(result.returncode, 0, msg=result.stderr)
+        self.assertFalse(os.path.exists(target + ".archsetup.bak"))
+
+    def test_second_call_same_run_is_a_noop(self):
+        # A file edited twice in one run (e.g. mkinitcpio MODULES then HOOKS)
+        # gets backed up once; the second call must not error or re-copy.
+        target = self.write("mkinitcpio.conf", "HOOKS=(base udev)\n")
+        self.assertEqual(self.run_backup(target).returncode, 0)
+        backup = target + ".archsetup.bak"
+        first_mtime = os.stat(backup).st_mtime_ns
+        result = self.run_backup(target)
+        self.assertEqual(result.returncode, 0, msg=result.stderr)
+        self.assertEqual(os.stat(backup).st_mtime_ns, first_mtime,
+                         "backup must not be rewritten on the second call")
+
+
+# -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Error cases
+# -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+class TestBackupErrors(BackupHarness):
+
+    def test_empty_target_is_refused(self):
+        result = self.run_backup("")
+        self.assertNotEqual(result.returncode, 0)
+
+    def test_copy_failure_returns_nonzero(self):
+        # Target exists but its directory is read-only, so the .bak can't be
+        # written. The helper must report failure rather than silently skip.
+        subdir = os.path.join(self.tmp, "ro")
+        os.makedirs(subdir)
+        target = os.path.join(subdir, "fstab")
+        with open(target, "w") as f:
+            f.write("data\n")
+        os.chmod(subdir, 0o500)  # r-x: owner cannot create the .bak here
+        try:
+            result = self.run_backup(target)
+        finally:
+            os.chmod(subdir, 0o755)
+        self.assertNotEqual(result.returncode, 0)
+        self.assertFalse(os.path.exists(target + ".archsetup.bak"))
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    unittest.main()