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-#+TITLE: Fifth reinstall gap — machine-local .local.el config, and a general shape
-#+AUTHOR: Craig Jennings
-
-* Follow-up to this morning's handoff
-
-Sent you four gaps an hour ago
-([[file:2026-08-14-emacsd-velox-reinstall-gaps-1.org][the first report]]). Here is a fifth,
-found straight afterwards when I noticed calendar sync was dead on velox.
-
-* What was broken
-
-=calendar-sync.timer= was enabled and firing every fifteen minutes, and failing
-every time with exit 255:
-
-: calendar-sync: No calendars configured (set calendar-sync-calendars)
-
-The three output files sat at zero bytes. The cause is that
-=~/.emacs.d/calendar-sync.local.el= is gitignored, so the reinstall deleted it
-along with everything else untracked, and the module's loader treats a missing
-file as a *silent* no-op. So the config vanished quietly and the only symptom
-was a failing unit nobody was watching.
-
-Cheap to fix once found: the repo tracks =calendar-sync.local.el.example=, and
-that template already encodes the shape velox uses — feeds resolved by
-=:secret-host= against =authinfo.gpg= rather than inlined. The authinfo entries
-had survived, because =~/.authinfo.gpg= is a stow symlink into the dotfiles repo.
-So rebuilding was one copy, and all three feeds now sync clean and land
-byte-identical to ratio's.
-
-* The general shape, which is the part worth acting on
-
-This is the same failure as gap 1, one layer down, and it is worth stating
-generally because the install can act on it:
-
-- A tracked =*.local.el.example= template plus a gitignored =*.local.el= is a
-  deliberate pattern in this config, not a one-off. =.gitignore= lines 56-58
-  list three of them: =calendar-sync.local.el=, =signal-config.local.el=,
-  =google-keep.local.el=. Every one of those is gone on velox right now. I have
-  only repaired the calendar one.
-- Secrets held *by reference* survive a rebuild; secrets held *inline* do not.
-  The calendar config came back for free because the tokens were in
-  =authinfo.gpg=, which is stow-managed and therefore travels. Ratio's copy of
-  the same file inlines its URLs, and had ratio been the machine rebuilt, those
-  three feed tokens would simply have been gone.
-- The failure was silent by design. A missing local config is a no-op, which is
-  right for a machine that never configured the feature and wrong for one that
-  just lost it.
-
-* What the install could do
-
-- After a rebuild, enumerate every tracked =*.local.el.example= in a project and
-  report which have no corresponding =*.local.el=. That is a one-line find and it
-  turns a silent no-op into a visible checklist item.
-- Same for any =*.local.*= convention elsewhere in the fleet — the pattern is not
-  specific to Emacs.
-- Worth pairing with gap 2: a unit that is enabled and failing every fifteen
-  minutes for two days is its own signal. A post-rebuild pass over
-  =systemctl --user list-units --state=failed= would have caught this one
-  without knowing anything about calendars.
-
-That last one generalizes best. Of the five gaps I have sent you, three were
-things that *looked* fine — a stowed unit file, an enabled timer, a present
-clone — and were not.