68c46fa07f fix(updater): install macOS orca serve updates instead of waiting on Squirrel forever (#27466)
* fix(updater): let supervised macOS serve installs stage Squirrel during install

Supervised `orca serve` keeps autoInstallOnAppQuit off, so electron-updater's
MacUpdater hands the download to Squirrel.Mac only inside quitAndInstall. The
updater, however, held the status at "downloading 100%" and gated quitAndInstall
on Squirrel having already staged the bundle. Neither could happen first, so
every macOS serve update stalled at macos_waiting_for_squirrel, remote installs
failed with remote_update_not_downloaded, and a local install request timed out
and quit without installing.

In supervised serve mode, report the download as installable and let the install
proceed to the handoff and native quitAndInstall. The install commits and arms
the exit watchdog when Squirrel signals it has staged the bundle; a staging
failure still recovers through the existing pre-commit error path.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(updater): hold destructive install prep until Squirrel stages the serve bundle

The supervised macOS install now calls electron-updater's quitAndInstall before
Squirrel has staged anything, and that staging completes asynchronously. Three
consequences needed handling:

- PTY cleanup and close-listener removal ran before staging, so a Squirrel
  failure recovered the server with its in-process sessions already killed.
  They now run when Squirrel reports the bundle staged, together with the
  commit and exit watchdog.
- Any updater 'error' during staging (for example a background check) failed
  the handoff while MacUpdater's pending listener would still quit and install.
  While staging is awaited, only Squirrel's native error ends it.
- Nothing bounded a Squirrel that never answers. After two minutes the install
  recovers through the existing pre-commit failure path and the server keeps
  serving.

isMacStagingDeferredToInstall is now darwin-only, so Linux supervised installs
keep their immediate commit.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(updater): report a slow Squirrel staging instead of abandoning the install

Recovering the install on the staging timeout reset Orca's state and failed the
supervisor handoff, but electron-updater's MacUpdater keeps its own completion
listener. A Squirrel that finished after the timeout still quit the app and
installed, now with a failed handoff, so the supervisor skipped the replacement
spawn.

The timeout now only reports a non-retryable error status and records the slow
staging; the handoff and in-flight install stay live so a late staging commits
and relaunches normally.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(updater): commit a staged serve install before its session cleanup

Squirrel's update-downloaded listeners run in registration order, and Orca's
runs before the one MacUpdater adds to quit the app. The staged-install commit
ran PTY cleanup first, so a throwing cleanup callback skipped the commit, the
exit watchdog, and MacUpdater's quit, leaving the install stuck in progress.

Commit and arm the watchdog first, then run cleanup under the same
post_commit_cleanup_failed handling performQuitAndInstall already uses.

The tests now register MacUpdater's persistent quit listener per unstaged
install, so a retried install is followed through completion.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test(updater): pin the MacUpdater staging behavior supervised serve installs rely on

The supervised macOS serve install assumes electron-updater's MacUpdater starts
Squirrel staging only inside quitAndInstall when autoInstallOnAppQuit is off,
and quits the app once staged when autoRunAppAfterInstall is off. Every updater
suite mocks electron-updater, so run the installed MacUpdater methods directly;
an upgrade that changed either behavior now fails here instead of silently
restoring the deadlock.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test(updater): adapt the serve staging tests to current main

Main's macOS quit-guard test predates the staging callbacks this change
adds, so it now passes them, and the new install test builds its window
without a type assertion.

Co-authored-by: jbamlee <dev.jbam@gmail.com>

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Co-authored-by: jbamlee <dev.jbam@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-authored-by: m4air <m4air@Mac.localdomain>
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