add the offscale line, and fix a set -e bug the test exposed

The menu is one function now rather than being written out twice — it is shown
again after ? prints the long answer — and option 1 carries your line: offscale is
just tailscale and headscale, with our own sugar on top.

The bug it surfaced is the more useful half. load_answers used

    [[ -z "${MACHINE_ROLE:-}" ]] && MACHINE_ROLE="$value"

as the last statement in a while-read loop body. When the variable is already set
the test is false, the compound returns non-zero, and as the final statement in a
loop body under `set -e` that ends the script. The failure is silent about its
cause: the trap prints "Step: unknown" and a line number inside the library,
before pre-flight has run.

It needed both conditions to appear — an answers file on disk AND the variables
already set in the environment — which is why every earlier test missed it and
running with env overrides hit it immediately. Written as if/then now, and the
other lib files scanned for the same shape.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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co-authored by Claude Opus 5
parent 6a29c39b74
commit 4d478cc0f1
3 changed files with 26 additions and 17 deletions
@@ -55,6 +55,20 @@ tailscale_help() {
echo " lock you out of the machine, so there is always a second way in."
}
# The menu itself, in a function because it is shown twice — once to ask, and
# again after ? has printed the long answer, so the reader is not dropped back at
# a bare prompt having forgotten what the options were.
tailscale_network_menu() {
info "Which network should this machine join?"
echo ""
echo " [1] set up your own network (offscale)"
echo " offscale is just tailscale and headscale, with our own sugar on top"
echo " [2] use a network you already run (headscale, offscale)"
echo " [3] the easy route (tailscale.com)"
echo " [?] what are tailscale, headscale and offscale?"
echo ""
}
# The long answer, printed when somebody types ?. Covers all three names,
# because the menu offers all three and two of them are not words anyone outside
# this project would know.