fix(packaging): the hub unit can start, and nothing carries the migration path

`ExecStartPre` ran `alembic -c /opt/meshbay-hub/migrations/alembic.ini upgrade
head`. The build does stage that file, so the path existed and the contents
were wrong: `alembic.ini` resolves `script_location` with `%(here)s`, so the
copy pointed at `/opt/meshbay-hub/migrations/src/meshbay_hub/db/migrations` —
which nothing installs, because the migrations ship inside `meshbay_hub`, in
the shared venv.

`ExecStartPre` failing stops the unit. A hub installed from the RPM or the DEB
could not start at all, and nothing noticed because the one live deployment
was assembled by hand — the same shape as the node unit that carried `User=`
into the user unit directory.

The same `%(here)s` trap was already found once on the server, where a stray
`alembic.ini` resolved to a month-old snapshot of the tree. Twice is a trap
rather than an accident, so the fix is that the path is no longer written down
anywhere: `meshbay-hub migrate` asks the installed package where its own
migrations are, which is correct for the RPM, the DEB, a venv and a checkout.
The build stages no `alembic.ini`; the repo keeps its own for `alembic
revision` and for deploy scripts that already work.

`env.py` now prefers a URL the caller resolved over re-reading the environment
itself, so `migrate --config` connects with exactly the string the server
will — one resolution, not two that agree until they do not.

Six tests, three of which fail against the unit as it was. They read the
directives rather than the file, because searching the whole thing finds the
comment explaining a directive and calls that the directive.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01T4YmK41VsEURWFdop4EEeT

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diff --git a/docs/MESHBAY_DESIGN.md b/docs/MESHBAY_DESIGN.md
index 577612d..14ec5d3 100644
--- a/docs/MESHBAY_DESIGN.md
+++ b/docs/MESHBAY_DESIGN.md
@@ -2532,6 +2532,7 @@ had already been asked.
 | **AV12** | **Every list has an upper bound on `limit` and a floor under `offset`.** Including the ones that take no authentication at all — the public group directory and the content blocklist |
 | **AV16** | **A bound the operator can see and change, and that a restart does not forget.** The mail allowance lives in `mail_quota`, not in a module dict — a deploy used to hand out a fresh budget, and the hub is deployed often. The values are settings with defaults in `hub.toml` and a block in the admin panel, because the hour a budget runs out is not when anyone wants to edit a file and restart; `/v1/admin/mail` says how much of the hour is left, which was previously visible only as an absence of mail |
 | **AV17** | **A global ceiling being reached is an event, not an absence.** When the hourly budget runs out the administrators are notified — once per hour, because a flood is what spends it and one alert per refusal buries the message under its own cause — and the panel says which of the two ceilings fell: newcomers turned away, or somebody locked out of their account unable to get back in |
+| **AV19** | **Nothing carries the path to the migrations.** `meshbay-hub migrate` derives it from the installed package, so the RPM, the DEB, a venv and a checkout all agree. A unit naming `alembic.ini` names a file whose `%(here)s` stops being true the moment packaging moves it |
 | **AV18** | **The hub runs on exactly one worker, and says so at startup.** `_connected_nodes`, `_node_groups`, `_webrtc_answers` and the relay registry are per-process: a second worker makes a node intermittently unreachable for half its members, which is a symptom that describes something else entirely |
 | **AV14** | **MHP binds its audience, and the hub reads its own identity at call time.** A token is minted for one peer and accepted by that peer only. `federation.py` bound `_hub_id` and `_hub_sk_pem` at import, which is before `load_hub_keypair` runs, so it signed with `None` and called itself `meshbay.org` whatever the instance was named — and the verifier named no audience for the `aud` the issuer sets, which PyJWT refuses outright. MHP could not complete one authenticated request between two hubs |
 | **AV15** | **A hash is checked for shape before it is a key lookup**, on the unauthenticated blocklist endpoints a node consults |