Compatibility check for installers apparently not detecting forked builds

[grahampugh]

🐞 Description

Hey folks, it looks like mist-cli is not detecting the compatibility of forked Tahoe builds:

$ mist list installer --compatible
┌──────────────────┐
│ INPUT VALIDATION │
└──────────────────┘
  ├─ Search only for latest (first) result will be 'false'...
  ├─ Include betas in search results will be 'false'...
  ├─ Only include compatible installers will be 'true'...
  ├─ Output type will be 'ascii'...
┌────────┐
│ SEARCH │
└────────┘
  ├─ Searching for macOS Installer versions...
  └─ Found 20 macOS Installer(s) available for download

┌────────────┬───────────────┬─────────┬─────────┬──────────┬────────────┬────────────┐
│ IDENTIFIER │ NAME          │ VERSION │ BUILD   │ SIZE     │ DATE       │ COMPATIBLE │
├────────────┼───────────────┼─────────┼─────────┼──────────┼────────────┼────────────┤
│ 093-49299  │ macOS Tahoe   │ 26.0.1  │ 25A8364 │ 14.39 GB │ 2025-10-20 │ True       │
│ 093-50844  │ macOS Tahoe   │ 26.0.1  │ 25A362  │ 16.95 GB │ 2025-09-29 │ True       │
│ 082-71738  │ macOS Tahoe   │ 26.0    │ 25A8353 │ 14.39 GB │ 2025-10-18 │ True       │
│ 093-37779  │ macOS Tahoe   │ 26.0    │ 25A354  │ 16.95 GB │ 2025-09-15 │ True       │

Compare with native mode in erase-install:

$ sudo ./erase-install.sh --list --native 
...
2025-10-20 20:16:40 | v39.1 | [list_installers_from_json] Listing stable installers only.
2025-10-20 20:16:40 | v39.1 | [list_installers_from_json] Available installers:
┌────────────┬──────────────────┬─────────┬──────────┬──────────┬────────────┬────────────┐
│ PRODUCT ID │ TITLE            │ VERSION │ BUILD    │ SIZE GB  │ DATE       │ COMPATIBLE │
├────────────┼──────────────────┼─────────┼──────────┼──────────┼────────────┼────────────┤
│ 093-49299  │ macOS Tahoe      │ 26.0.1  │ 25A8364  │ 13.39    │ 2025-10-16 │ False      │
│ 093-50844  │ macOS Tahoe      │ 26.0.1  │ 25A362   │ 15.78    │ 2025-09-29 │ True       │
│ 082-71738  │ macOS Tahoe      │ 26.0    │ 25A8353  │ 13.39    │ 2025-10-18 │ False      │
│ 093-37779  │ macOS Tahoe      │ 26.0    │ 25A354   │ 15.78    │ 2025-09-15 │ True       │

✅ Expected Behaviour

When I run this on my machine, I would expect the forked builds to show up as incompatible on devices they are not intended for

macOS Version

macOS Tahoe 26

mist-cli Version

• Yes, I am using the latest version of mist-cli.

ℹ️ Additional Context

No response