Ship OpenClaw itself again until a release can seed it (#796)

This reverts f6b9267b (#651), at pkgrel 3 so it replaces 2026.9.6-2. OpenClaw rides the fast ring, so the seed package went straight to edge, rc and stable, where omarchy is still 4.0.4: nothing there seeds ~/.openclaw or moves an existing install, so every OpenClaw user lost the openclaw command on their next update while 4.0.4's --check went on calling it installed. The seed comes back with the Omarchy release that carries omacom/omarchy#13296.

pkgbuilds/openclaw/PKGBUILD

@@ -5,26 +5,20 @@
 # Contributor: Wuxxin <wuxxin@gmail.com>
 # Followed here straight from the npm registry (see .omarchy/package.json), since
 # upstream's release cadence outruns the AUR.
-#
-# This is the release Omarchy ships, not the OpenClaw that runs: a copy in /usr
-# belongs to pacman, and `openclaw update` refuses to write there.
-# omarchy-install-openclaw-cli seeds a copy under ~/.openclaw from this tarball
-# with the installer that came in it, and that copy updates itself.
 
 pkgname=openclaw
 pkgver=2026.9.6
-pkgrel=2
+pkgrel=3
 pkgdesc='Multi-channel AI gateway with extensible messaging integrations'
 arch=(x86_64 aarch64)
 url=https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw
 license=(MIT)
 
-# The installer brings its own Node, and git is the one thing it would
-# otherwise try to install with sudo.
-depends=(bash curl git)
+depends=('nodejs>=22')
+makedepends=(npm)
 optdepends=(
-    'omarchy: sets up the self-updating OpenClaw under ~/.openclaw'
     '1password-cli: 1password skill'
+    'curl: weather, openai-whisper-api skills'
     'ffmpeg: video-frames skill'
     'github-cli: github, gh-issues skills'
     'jq: session-logs, trello skills'
@@ -41,11 +35,38 @@ install=$pkgname.install
 noextract=($pkgname-$pkgver.tgz)
 
 package() {
-    install -Dm644 "$srcdir"/$pkgname-$pkgver.tgz "$pkgdir"/usr/share/$pkgname/$pkgname.tgz
+    export SHARP_IGNORE_GLOBAL_LIBVIPS=1
+    # npm 12 blocks install-time lifecycle scripts unless the package is
+    # allow-listed, and for a local tarball the allow-list key is the tarball's
+    # own file: spec, not the package name (arborist matches node.resolved).
+    # Upstream's postinstall prunes stale dist files and clears the
+    # .openclaw-lifecycle-pending marker the tarball ships with; without it,
+    # every openclaw invocation tries to finish that lifecycle itself and dies
+    # with EACCES on the root-owned install.
+    # That postinstall also migrates legacy state under whatever home it sees
+    # (pruning plugin-runtime-deps in ~/.openclaw and friends), so it gets a
+    # scratch home: a maintainer's own OpenClaw is not the build's to touch.
+    mkdir -p "$srcdir"/home
+    env -u OPENCLAW_HOME -u OPENCLAW_STATE_DIR -u OPENCLAW_CONFIG_PATH HOME="$srcdir"/home \
+        npm install --silent --global --cache "$srcdir"/npm-cache \
+        --allow-scripts="file:$srcdir/$pkgname-$pkgver.tgz" \
+        --prefix "$pkgdir"/usr "$srcdir"/$pkgname-$pkgver.tgz
+    if [[ -e "$pkgdir"/usr/lib/node_modules/$pkgname/.openclaw-lifecycle-pending ]]; then
+        error "openclaw's postinstall did not run; the package would fail on first use"
+        return 1
+    fi
 
-    bsdtar -xf "$srcdir"/$pkgname-$pkgver.tgz -C "$srcdir" \
-        package/scripts/install-cli.sh package/dist/control-ui/apple-touch-icon.png package/LICENSE
-    install -Dm644 "$srcdir"/package/scripts/install-cli.sh "$pkgdir"/usr/share/$pkgname/install-cli.sh
-    install -Dm644 "$srcdir"/package/dist/control-ui/apple-touch-icon.png "$pkgdir"/usr/share/$pkgname/$pkgname.png
-    install -Dm644 -t "$pkgdir"/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname "$srcdir"/package/LICENSE
+    cat > $pkgname <<'EOF'
+#!/bin/sh
+export SHARP_IGNORE_GLOBAL_LIBVIPS=1
+exec node /usr/lib/node_modules/openclaw/openclaw.mjs "$@"
+EOF
+    install -Dm755 -t "$pkgdir"/usr/bin $pkgname
+
+    cd "$pkgdir"/usr/lib/node_modules/$pkgname
+    install -Dm644 -t "$pkgdir"/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname LICENSE
+    install -Dm644 -t "$pkgdir"/usr/share/doc/$pkgname README.md CHANGELOG.md
+    for f in docs/*
+    do ln -s /usr/lib/node_modules/$pkgname/"$f" "$pkgdir"/usr/share/doc/$pkgname/
+    done
 }

pkgbuilds/openclaw/openclaw.install

@@ -1,17 +1,17 @@
 post_install() {
     printf "%s\n" \
-        "==> This is the release a self-updating OpenClaw starts from." \
-        "==> Set it up under ~/.openclaw: omarchy-install-openclaw-cli --now"
+        "==> Install gateway service: openclaw gateway install --force" \
+        "==> Perform onboarding once: openclaw onboard"
 }
 
 post_upgrade() {
-    # Earlier releases of this package were OpenClaw itself, under
-    # /usr/lib/node_modules/openclaw, and which of those a machine is leaving
-    # cannot be told from the version alone, since the upstream sync moves it.
-    # A root pacman hook has no session bus to move a user's OpenClaw, so
-    # Omarchy's migration does, and this says what happens either way.
+    # The gateway runs as a systemd user unit (openclaw-gateway.service in
+    # ~/.config/systemd/user), which a root pacman hook has no session bus
+    # to reach, so it cannot be restarted from here and keeps running the
+    # old code until the user restarts it.
     printf "%s\n" \
-        "==> OpenClaw runs from ~/.openclaw and updates itself: openclaw update" \
-        "==> This package only sets the release new installs start from;" \
-        "    omarchy update moves an OpenClaw still running from /usr there."
+        "==> Restart the gateway to apply updates:" \
+        "    openclaw gateway restart" \
+        "==> Run doctor to migrate configs, check gateway health, etc.:" \
+        "    openclaw doctor"
 }