Ask Dev Updater for the checkout, not for the app inside it

Dev Updater's unit is a project -- a directory in a checkout -- that
produces components, so this declaration belongs at the repository root
where it can say where each half lives. `cwd` is how a component says
that, and it is what the old file was working around: sitting in `app/`,
it reached the backend with `../server/Cargo.toml` and `../server/service`,
which described the layout backwards.

So the file says what this repository produces: the backend, built and
serviced in `server/`, and then the APK, built in `app/`. The order is
unchanged and still the point -- a failing APK build leaves the phone the
APK it already had rather than half of a matched pair.

The service script gains dev-updater's note about lingering. A user
service stops at logout unless `loginctl enable-linger` is set, which for
this one matters more than for a build server: the phone reaches ai-server
whether or not anyone is logged in at the desk.

**This changes the project path, so the phone's existing entry (at
~/repos/ai-app/app) has to be removed and the checkout root added
instead**, and its components accepted once.

Verified against dev-updater's current parser rather than by reading its
schema: the declaration loads, `cargo build --release` resolves into
server/, app/build-apk.sh into app/, the service script to an absolute
path, and APK discovery from the root still finds the built APK.
`./server/service status` prints not-installed and exits 0.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017xn8nHw1tw1R6PtiY1eEtw
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// Read by Dev Updater. Structured as the body of the config: no outer
// parentheses, so nothing here is indented for the sake of a wrapper.
//
// This file sits at the checkout root because the project Dev Updater
// serves is the whole repository -- one checkout producing two things.
// Each component says where it lives with `cwd`, relative to this
// directory, rather than one of them reaching out of the other with `../`.
// What to call this project before there is a build to read a label from.
// A built APK wins: it is the authority on what will actually install.
label: "AI Sessions",
// Walked in order, and the order is the point: the backend is built and
// delivered first, so a failing APK build leaves the phone the APK it
// already had rather than half of a matched pair.
components: [
Server(
name: "backend",
build: "cargo build --release",
cwd: "server",
// Installs into whichever user-service manager is here, and is how
// ai-server is started, stopped and asked about. See the script.
service: "server/service",
),
Apk(
name: "app",
// Resolved against this directory, and run in `app/` -- the script
// cds to its own directory anyway, so the cwd is here to say where
// the app is rather than because the build needs it.
build: "app/build-apk.sh",
cwd: "app",
),
],
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// Read by Dev Updater. Structured as the body of the config: no outer
// parentheses, so nothing here is indented for the sake of a wrapper.
label: "AI Sessions",
// The server is built and delivered before the APK: if the APK build then
// fails, the phone keeps being offered the one it already had rather than
// half of a matched pair.
components: [
Server(
name: "backend",
build: "cargo build --release --manifest-path ../server/Cargo.toml",
// Installs into whichever user-service manager is here, and is how
// this server is started, stopped and asked about. See the script.
service: "../server/service",
),
Apk(
name: "app",
build: "./build-apk.sh",
),
]
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# drive from the phone -- and for you to drive by hand, which is the same
# thing.
#
# Declared as the Server component of this checkout in `.dev-updater.ron`
# at the repository root, so the card drives it like any other project's.
# One button is worth knowing about before pressing it: on a phone that
# reaches ai-server through the tunnel rather than through Dev Updater,
# Stop leaves this server down until someone starts it again here.
#
# ./service install | uninstall | start | stop | restart | status
#
# `status` prints exactly one of `running`, `stopped` or `not-installed`
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# with a message telling you to run it yourself once instead.
#
# User services on purpose: a system unit needs root to install, and a
# build machine's own account is where a dev server belongs.
# build machine's own account is where a dev server belongs. Note that a
# user service stops at logout unless lingering is enabled
# (`loginctl enable-linger $USER`), which you want for this one: the phone
# reaches this server whether or not anyone is logged in at the desk.
set -eu
SCRIPT_DIR=$(cd "$(dirname "$0")" && pwd)