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https://entire.com/gh/jdx/mise/trails/978

mise prune no longer aborts with cannot safely prune: Python receipt … points to an unknown mise Python installation when a pypi tool's receipt reaches mise's own Python through a minor-version symlink.

mise install python@3.14
mise use -g "pypi:cowsay[python=3.14]"
mise prune --dry-run   # before: aborts; after: runs

The receipt can record the interpreter as installs/python/3.14/bin/python (3.14 -> ./3.14.9), while the identity names 3.14.9. prune compared the two with Path::starts_with, which does not follow symlinks, so the match failed and the whole prune bailed. prune now also resolves the receipt path's directory and accepts a match on either the recorded or the resolved path, so existing receipts keep working.

I did not change where the symlinked path gets written into the receipt; existing receipts like this are handled at prune time.

Validation: new unit test resolve_receipt_python_follows_the_minor_version_symlink. I did not run the reproducer above end to end.

Discussion: #14841

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Changes prune’s safety logic for retaining interpreters referenced by uv receipts; incorrect matching could prune needed Python or retain too much, though behavior is narrowed with explicit fail-closed rules and tests.

Overview
Fixes mise prune aborting when a pypi/pipx .mise-uv/python.json receipt points at mise Python via a minor-version symlink (e.g. python/3.14/bin/python while the runtime identity is 3.14.9). Matching no longer relies only on Path::starts_with, which ignores symlinks.

Prune now resolves the receipt interpreter path (resolve_receipt_python) and uses receipt_python_in_dir to treat a match on either the recorded or resolved path, including when the install tree is reached through symlinked directories. Identity-layout installs can also match when the install name equals the receipt version and the resolved path lives under that dir; legacy installs/python/<version> checks use the same helper.

The matcher is conservative when the python/3.14 link has moved to a newer patch: a receipt tied to an older patch through that link must not count as living in the old install dir. Missing paths are left unchanged instead of failing resolution.

Adds a Unix unit test for symlinked minor-version paths and the “link moved on” case.

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• Bug Fixes
  • Improved Python installation matching when receipt paths use minor-version symlinks or symlinked data directories.
  • Matching now accounts for moved symlinks and installations named after the receipt’s Python version, while checking that resolved paths belong to the installation.
  • Preserved matching behavior when a receipt’s parent directory cannot be resolved.

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Python receipt matching now checks interpreter paths both before and after resolving parent-directory symlinks. Identity-layout matching also accepts an install named for the receipt’s Python version when the path belongs to that install.

Changes: Python receipt path matching

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Resolve paths and match Python variants src/toolset/mod.rs	Identity-layout and legacy matching check the original interpreter path and the path resolved through its parent directory. Unix tests cover minor-version symlinks, symlinked data directories, moved links, and nonexistent paths.

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Summary

Makes mise prune recognize Python receipts that reach an installation through a minor-version symlink.

• Prune follows symlinked Python receipt paths to keep the named install.

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1422-1446: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add a caller-level regression test for symlinked Python receipts.

The new test only exercises resolve_receipt_python. It does not exercise keep_uv_python_variants, which uses the resolved path during prune.

Add a selected-Python receipt with python/3.14/bin/python, where python/3.14 links to python/3.14.9. Run the prune retention path and assert that the concrete Python installation remains needed and prune does not abort. Removing either caller's resolved check would fail this test, while the current helper test would still pass.

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Add a caller-level regression test for keep_uv_python_variants using a
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Instruction counts

benchmark	trend	instructions	Δ	wall (min)	Δ
env	▃▄▁▃▂█▇▄▅▃	30,972,107 → 30,947,421	-0.08%	21.25 → 21.16ms	-0.41%
hook-env	▁▃▁▁▂█▆▅▃▁	33,233,855 → 33,215,329	-0.06%	21.61 → 22.22ms	+2.78%
ls	▅▅▄▅▄▅█▃▇▁	35,360,982 → 35,308,008	-0.15%	22.74 → 23.49ms	+3.28%
registry	▁▁▁▁▄▃▆█▆▃	43,853,121 → 43,793,536	-0.14%	18.99 → 18.88ms	-0.57%
startup	▂▂▁▅▁▆█▄▆▅	12,088,639 → 12,084,525	-0.03%	12.51 → 12.86ms	+2.79%

No instruction-count regression above 1%.

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