From 5fa3a35d2790c62ff86187bf290c66533489fcf3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kin Agent <kin@baton>
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2026 09:17:06 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] =?UTF-8?q?fix:=20add=20ExecStartPre=20pip=20install=20to?=
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Fixes BATON-FIX-015: email-validator was installed manually as root because
deploy process had no pip install step. Added ExecStartPre to run
pip install -r requirements.txt on every service start/restart.
---
 deploy/baton.service | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/deploy/baton.service b/deploy/baton.service
index 141d6b6..ec8be1f 100644
--- a/deploy/baton.service
+++ b/deploy/baton.service
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ Type=simple
 User=www-data
 WorkingDirectory=/opt/baton
 EnvironmentFile=/opt/baton/.env
+ExecStartPre=/opt/baton/venv/bin/pip install -r /opt/baton/requirements.txt -q
 ExecStart=/opt/baton/venv/bin/uvicorn backend.main:app --host 127.0.0.1 --port 8000
 Restart=on-failure
 RestartSec=5s