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src/components/ReleasePanel.svelte

@@ -25,6 +25,21 @@
   /** The short version of a row's state, for the column that has room for three words.
       NOT called `state`: that shadows the `$state` rune in this file, and everything
       declared with it silently stops being reactive. */
+  // The refresh is its own press, with its own password: it dumps a database operators are
+  // using, so it must not be reachable by the same click that ships a code change.
+  let refreshOpen = $state(false);
+  let pgPassword = $state("");
+  let tileRoot = $state("");
+  const canRefresh = $derived(
+    password.trim().length > 0 && (pgPassword.trim().length > 0 || tileRoot.trim().length > 0),
+  );
+
+  async function refresh() {
+    if (!canRefresh || busy) return;
+    await launcher.refreshRun(password, pgPassword, tileRoot);
+    pgPassword = "";
+  }
+
   /** `20260921T125618Z` -> `21 Sep 2026`; anything else is shown as it came. */
   function stamped(snapshot: string | null): string {
     if (!snapshot || snapshot.length < 8) return snapshot ?? "unknown";
@@ -36,6 +51,13 @@
     return `${d} ${MONTHS[m - 1] ?? "?"} ${y}`;
   }
 
+  /** `20260423` -> `Apr 2026`. The vintage of the extract, not an age. */
+  function monthOf(stamp: string): string {
+    const MONTHS = ["Jan", "Feb", "Mar", "Apr", "May", "Jun", "Jul", "Aug", "Sep", "Oct", "Nov", "Dec"];
+    const m = Number(stamp.slice(4, 6));
+    return `${MONTHS[m - 1] ?? "?"} ${stamp.slice(0, 4)}`;
+  }
+
   function aged(days: number | null): string {
     if (days === null) return "";
     if (days <= 0) return "today";
@@ -97,10 +119,55 @@
           <div class="payload-row">
             <span class="payload-name">Map tiles</span>
             <span class="payload-val mono">{d.tile_sets} sets</span>
-            <span class="payload-age" class:stale={(d.tiles_age_days ?? 0) > 90}>{aged(d.tiles_age_days)}</span>
+            <!-- Deliberately NOT an age. Nothing records when tiles were baked, and the only
+                 date available is the upstream extract's, which said "161 days old" about
+                 work that is three weeks old. -->
+            <span class="payload-age" class:stale={(d.basemap_vintage_days ?? 0) > 365}>
+              {d.basemap_vintage ? `map data ${monthOf(d.basemap_vintage)}` : ""}
+            </span>
             <span class="payload-size mono">{formatBytes(d.tile_bytes)}</span>
           </div>
           <span class="payload-foot mono">{d.tile_datasets.join(" · ")}</span>
+          <span class="payload-foot">
+            Tiles record no bake date, so only the source extract's vintage is known.
+          </span>
+          <div class="payload-act">
+            <button class="btn-link" onclick={() => (refreshOpen = !refreshOpen)}>
+              {refreshOpen ? "Never mind" : "Bring up to date…"}
+            </button>
+          </div>
+          {#if refreshOpen}
+            <div class="refresh">
+              <p class="refresh-why">
+                This rebuilds the seed from the live database and re-indexes the tiles. It
+                <strong>publishes nothing</strong> — it prepares the inputs, and the console says how to cut a
+                version from them.
+              </p>
+              <input
+                class="input"
+                type="password"
+                autocomplete="off"
+                placeholder="database password (Data PC) — leave empty to skip the seed"
+                bind:value={pgPassword}
+                disabled={busy}
+              />
+              <input
+                class="input"
+                type="text"
+                autocomplete="off"
+                spellcheck="false"
+                placeholder="tile folder laid out as style\dataset — leave empty to skip the tiles"
+                bind:value={tileRoot}
+                disabled={busy}
+              />
+              <div class="row">
+                <span class="refresh-note">
+                  The seed is minutes of load on a database people are using. Uses the node password above.
+                </span>
+                <button class="btn" disabled={!canRefresh || busy} onclick={refresh}>Refresh</button>
+              </div>
+            </div>
+          {/if}
           {#if !d.is_live}
             <span class="payload-foot">Read from this PC's {d.version}, which is not what the DHP serves.</span>
           {/if}
@@ -189,6 +256,33 @@
   .payload-age.stale {
     color: var(--warn);
   }
+  .payload-act {
+    margin-top: 6px;
+  }
+  .refresh {
+    display: flex;
+    flex-direction: column;
+    gap: 6px;
+    margin-top: 8px;
+    padding-top: 8px;
+    border-top: 1px solid var(--line);
+  }
+  .refresh-why,
+  .refresh-note {
+    margin: 0;
+    color: var(--muted);
+    font-size: var(--text-xs);
+    line-height: 1.5;
+  }
+  .refresh .row {
+    display: flex;
+    align-items: center;
+    gap: 10px;
+  }
+  .refresh .row .refresh-note {
+    flex: 1;
+  }
+
   .payload-foot {
     margin-top: 4px;
     color: var(--muted);

src/lib/backend.ts

@@ -75,6 +75,7 @@ function createTauriBackend(): Backend {
     releasePlan: () => invoke<ReleasePlan>("release_plan"),
     releaseRun: (password, withApi, withMcp) => invoke<void>("release_run", { password, withApi, withMcp }),
     releaseConsole: (since) => invoke<ReleaseConsoleTail>("release_console", { since }),
+    refreshRun: (password, pgPassword, tileRoot) => invoke<void>("refresh_run", { password, pgPassword, tileRoot }),
     onTileSyncProgress: (handler) => subscribe<TileSyncProgress>("tile-sync-progress", handler),
     onRemoveProgress: (handler) => subscribe<RemoveProgress>("remove-progress", handler),
     onStack: (handler) => subscribe<StackEvent>("stack", handler),

src/lib/launcher.svelte.ts

@@ -469,6 +469,20 @@ class Launcher {
     }
   }
 
+  /** Rebuild the pack's data payload. Streams into the same console as a release. */
+  refreshRun(password: string, pgPassword: string, tileRoot: string) {
+    return this.run("release", async () => {
+      await backend.refreshRun(password, pgPassword, tileRoot);
+      this.releaseOpen = false;
+      this.consoleLines = [];
+      this.consoleTotal = 0;
+      this.consoleExit = null;
+      this.consoleRunning = true;
+      this.consoleOpen = true;
+      this.pollConsole();
+    });
+  }
+
   /** Reopen it after it was closed; a finished release keeps its output to be read. */
   showConsole() {
     this.consoleOpen = true;

src/lib/mock.ts

@@ -825,7 +825,8 @@ class MockBackend implements Backend {
         tile_sets: 8,
         tile_bytes: 102_650_000_000,
         tile_datasets: ["protomaps_20260423", "planet_heightmap"],
-        tiles_age_days: 161,
+        basemap_vintage: "20260423",
+        basemap_vintage_days: 161,
       },
     };
   }
@@ -854,6 +855,25 @@ class MockBackend implements Backend {
     })();
   }
 
+  async refreshRun(password: string, pgPassword: string, tileRoot: string): Promise<void> {
+    await this.wait(300);
+    if (!password.trim()) throw "The node's sudo password is needed: the dump runs there.";
+    if (!pgPassword.trim() && !tileRoot.trim()) throw "Nothing to refresh: give the database password, a tile folder, or both.";
+    this.consoleLines = ["=== Database seed ==="];
+    this.consoleDone = null;
+    const rest = pgPassword.trim()
+      ? ["live version : 0.75.0", "dumping odian from 192.168.1.13 ...", "snapshot : 20261001T090000Z  (was 20260921T125618Z)",
+         "tables   : 302   bytes: 15.40 GB", "Refresh finished. Nothing is published yet."]
+      : ["=== Tile indexes ===", "re-indexing 8 sets...", "Refresh finished. Nothing is published yet."];
+    void (async () => {
+      for (const line of rest) {
+        await this.wait(600);
+        this.consoleLines.push(line);
+      }
+      this.consoleDone = 0;
+    })();
+  }
+
   private consoleLines: string[] = [];
   private consoleDone: number | null = 0;
 

src/lib/types.ts

@@ -314,8 +314,10 @@ export interface ReleaseData {
   tile_sets: number;
   tile_bytes: number;
   tile_datasets: string[];
-  /** Age of the oldest dated dataset; undated sets (heightmap) are not counted. */
-  tiles_age_days: number | null;
+  /** The upstream extract the basemap was drawn from, `YYYYMMDD`. NOT a bake time: tiles
+   *  record none anywhere, so there is no "how old are our tiles" to show. */
+  basemap_vintage: string | null;
+  basemap_vintage_days: number | null;
 }
 
 export interface ReleasePlan {
@@ -412,6 +414,8 @@ export interface Backend {
   releasePlan(): Promise<ReleasePlan>;
   releaseRun(password: string, withApi: boolean, withMcp: boolean): Promise<void>;
   releaseConsole(since: number): Promise<ReleaseConsoleTail>;
+  /** Rebuild the pack's data payload. Prepares inputs only; it publishes nothing. */
+  refreshRun(password: string, pgPassword: string, tileRoot: string): Promise<void>;
   /** What the operator has to decide, oldest first. */
   getSyncConflicts(): Promise<SyncConflict[]>;
   /** Records one decision; resolves with what is left to decide. */