makepkg always exports CARCH, so PKGBUILDs may branch on it at file
scope. Every place the tooling sourced a PKGBUILD did so without CARCH,
taking the wrong branch or aborting partway, and check-versions turned
the resulting empty pkgver/pkgrel into the version '-', which never
matches a published version and queues an endless rebuild.
package_pkgbuild_var reads one variable the way makepkg would see it,
for the architecture being checked, and reports whether the source
succeeded. check-versions, sync-rebuilds and omarchy-pkgs use it.
check-versions now warns and skips a package whose pkgver or pkgrel is
empty instead of comparing a partial version. A self-test covers a
PKGBUILD that branches on CARCH before assigning its version.
pkgs.omarchy.org sits behind Cloudflare, and right after a sync the
plain db URL keeps serving the previous file from the edge cache
(observed: a cache HIT with age 900s+ returning the pre-release db).
That made status report the old version, wait_for_published poll a
frozen file for its full timeout, and would let RC auto-numbering
count from last release's versions. A unique query string per fetch
skips the cached entry.
The published-db marker also exists on any workstation that once ran a full
local release, so --host / OMARCHY_REPO_HOST / .repo-host are now checked
before on_repo_host everywhere (triggers, advances, doctor). README documents
the detection, the caveat, and the .repo-host tie-breaker.
Release commands now work from anywhere: on_repo_host (the published database
living in this checkout) routes build triggers, advances, and promotion to
local execution; other machines go over ssh to the configured destination.
The host setting is any ssh destination — root@<ip>, root@<hostname>, or an
~/.ssh/config alias — resolved from --host, OMARCHY_REPO_HOST, then the
one-line .repo-host file. doctor reports which mode applies, and the README
documents the format and precedence. All host connections are plain ssh.
A release train has three human moments, each one command: start (release
branch on basecamp/omarchy + notes staging PR + edge→rc advance for
minor/major), rc (pin both PKGBUILDs to the branch head as X.Y.ZrcN on the
pkgs rc branch, trigger the rc channel build, wait for publish, optional RC
ISO), and ship (final pins → promote rc→stable → tag → pins to master → GitHub
release from the staging PR body → final ISO → website bump, each step
skip-if-done so a crashed run resumes).
Bare omarchy-release is the shepherd: it derives the train state from observed
reality (remote branches, rc-branch pins, published channel dbs, tags — no
state files) and offers the correct next step. Versions are inferred from
branch names (v4-0-2 ⇒ 4.0.2rcN ⇒ v4.0.2). ship refuses to promote a commit
no RC was cut from. pick is a multi-select over merged quattro PRs,
cherry-picking merge commits. doctor pre-flights every credential and
connection. self-test wired into CI.
bin/omarchy-pkgs stays as the pin engine, driven with its db URL pointed at
the rc channel and pins committed to the standing rc branch (rebuilt as
master + pins per cut and force-pushed; the server rc worktree follows with
reset --hard).
Builds now happen wherever the operator likes, so naming the destination after
building described the old arrangement rather than the current one. What the
push and deploy commands reach is the machine that serves pkgs.omarchy.org and
holds the signing key: the repository host. It also runs the scheduled builds,
which is why the trigger in omarchy-pkgs release points at the same place.
Resolution moves into helpers/host-helpers.sh, which all three commands now
share instead of repeating: --host, then OMARCHY_REPO_HOST, then .repo-host.
OMARCHY_BUILD_HOST and .build-host keep working as fallbacks, so existing
environments and checkouts are unaffected.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
deploy runs build then push, which is the whole workflow on a local build
machine. It resolves the build host before building so a missing --host fails
in a second rather than after a long compile.
--host now overrides $OMARCHY_BUILD_HOST and .build-host on deploy, push, and
the build trigger in omarchy-pkgs release, so a server can be named per
invocation without arming the release auto-trigger.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
One-command releases for the omarchy + omarchy-settings pair:
bin/omarchy-pkgs release v4.0.0 | latest | rc [--commit sha] [--base X.Y.Z]
Rewrites both PKGBUILDs in lockstep (same _tag/_commit/pkgver/sha256sums,
pkgrel reset to 1), normalizes upstream tag forms to the vercmp-safe
attached rcN convention, refuses downgrades against the published edge DB,
regenerates and verifies checksums from a cached mirror clone, commits and
pushes to master, and triggers the build host when OMARCHY_BUILD_HOST is
configured. RCs stay on edge; finals are promoted with bin/repo migrate.
Includes a self-test covering tag normalization and pacman ordering, and a
README runbook.
Ryan Hughes