The first pins (quattro ee8ebf6, omasnap eb22bfe) date from 2026-09-21.
Edge has since published omarchy-dev from quattro 7b336b1 through a
manual rebuild, so merging the old pin would ship older code under a
higher version. Moved with the tracker's own code:
bin/sync-upstream --lane auto-merge (BYPASS_MIN_RELEASE_AGE=1)
Since publishing moved to CI on merge, a package whose PKGBUILD never
changes while its source moves was never rebuilt: omarchy-dev and
omarchy-settings-dev followed quattro through "#branch=" and a pkgver()
function, and nothing in this repository changed when quattro did. The
host timers that used to notice are off, so edge fell days behind.
The rule now: no git source without a commit or tag pin
(tests/pinned-sources.sh, run in CI). A package that has to follow a
branch declares a git_branch upstream watch, and the pin moves through
the same PR/build/publish path as every other version bump.
Watch (helpers/upstream-watch.py)
git_branch gains tag_pattern: the newest release tag in the pinned
commit's own history, exposed as {tag}/{version}/{distance}, so a
branch build is versioned <tag>.r<n>.g<sha>, above the release it
follows and below the next one. One blobless clone per branch per
run, shared by every package on it. min_release_age selects the
newest commit older than the window, so a push burst builds once.
Lane (helpers/package-metadata.sh, bin/sync-upstream --lane)
"auto_merge": true moves a package from the reviewed 6-hourly sync
PR to the unattended lane. Packages pinned from the same branch move
together: a failure on one restores the others and fails the group,
so the dev pair can never ship from two quattro commits.
Tracker (.github/workflows/track-branches.yml)
Every two hours: pin, open one PR with a GitHub App token, enable
auto-merge. Branch protection still gates the merge on result,
self-tests and build-isolation. A tip that fails to build stays an
open red PR until the next tick supersedes it. The App is required:
a PR opened with GITHUB_TOKEN has its checks held for approval and
its auto-merge would not fire publish.yml.
The reviewed workflows (sync-upstream, sync-rebuilds) open their PRs
with the same App so their builds start without a maintainer clicking
"Approve workflows to run"; without the App they fall back to
GITHUB_TOKEN and behave as before.
Recipes
The dev pair pins _commit and a real sha256sum, keeps the OMARCHY_SRC
override, and drops pkgver(). Its r-number stays the branch's total
commit count because the published history used it and pacman must
never see the version go down. omasnap-git is new: omacom/omasnap
main, versioned <tag>.r<distance>.g<sha>, provides/conflicts omasnap.
Moving omarchy-hw-platform from omarchy to omarchy-settings loses the file
when the dev pair installs in separate transactions, since omarchy-dev does
not pin omarchy-settings-dev's version. Settings now installs a copy beside
the guard script and omarchy keeps its detector, so no file changes owner.
The settings package's platform guard runs omarchy-hw-platform before the
omarchy runtime is installed. omarchy leaves the detector out of its bin/
loop and settings ships it, with the /usr/share/omarchy/bin link the Apple
predicate and the CLI router use, whenever the source has it.
The guard hook and the script it runs install together from omarchy-settings,
so they are resident before the runtime and hardware packages. Conditional, so
builds from sources without them are unchanged.
basecamp/omarchy#11653 added etc/udev/rules.d/60-omarchy-io-scheduler.rules. package() already ships the whole etc/ tree, so the rule lands on new installs with the next build; list it in backup= so pacman keeps a user's local edit of the rule across upgrades, like the other package-owned /etc drop-ins.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01EqYNBv5cERVom2zox5epyE
Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The Omarchy payload is architecture-independent, but the package is not.
On x86_64 omarchy pulls the Limine + mkinitcpio hook + Snapper boot stack;
on Apple Silicon the system boots through m1n1 + GRUB from the Asahi
packages on Arch Linux ARM's kernel, so that stack does not apply, and
Wi-Fi on the Broadcom parts needs the iwd backend. The shipped /etc tree
differs too: mkinitcpio reads every file under /etc/mkinitcpio.conf.d/,
so shipping omarchy_hooks.conf on aarch64 injects the Limine hooks into
the Asahi kernel's initramfs, and the zram/zswap/oomd drop-ins and the
zram-tuned vm.* sysctls belong to the x86_64 memory stack.
makepkg only honours depends_<arch> and optdepends_<arch> on
arch-specific packages, so arch=('any') becomes ('x86_64' 'aarch64').
backup=() has no arch-suffixed form, so the x86_64-only entries are
appended under CARCH and each of those paths is removed from the aarch64
package in package(). The x86_64 package keeps exactly the contents it
had; only its filename suffix changes.
The install scriptlet applies the hardened cups-files.conf on every
platform, then on Apple Silicon keeps the Arch Linux ARM system identity
(/etc/os-release stays the distribution's symlink) instead of the
etc-overrides. The -dev pair carries the same change so the pairs stay in
lockstep.
A package's .omarchy/package.json may now pin where it lives with
"channels": [...]. With the key present the package builds in each listed
channel except stable (stable is only fed by promotion); without it, today's
defaults hold (build for edge; fast-ring also builds stable directly).
package_moves_to_channel() is the advance/promote eligibility rule: a member
of the destination channel that is not built there natively.
The release pair (omarchy, omarchy-settings) is edge+rc+stable — edge stays
during the client-migration overlap window and drops later. The dev pair is
pinned to edge only.
Installs the upstream app.slice oomd drop-in so memory pressure kills an
app scope instead of the compositor session, and protects user edits to
etc/systemd/oomd.conf.d/10-omarchy.conf on upgrade.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The settings package now ships /etc/systemd/zram-generator.conf, so it needs
a backup entry to protect user edits across upgrades like every other file it
places in /etc, and an optdepends line pointing at the package that reads it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
omarchy moves fcitx5 off Hyprland's fire-and-forget autostart onto a
supervised systemd user service, so ~/.XCompose compose sequences stop
dying silently when it goes away. Ship the unit.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
omarchy-tailscale-receive.service was in default/systemd/user/ but never
installed, so `systemctl --user enable` found no unit for it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
omarchy renamed omarchy-update-user-notify to omarchy-migrate-notify and
dropped the .path watcher that fired during every package update.
Keep the old service name as a symlink onto the new unit. Existing users hold
an absolute graphical-session.target.wants symlink to the old path, and the
migration that repoints it only runs for users who run an update, which is the
opposite of who the notifier is for. Without the alias their symlink dangles
and they are never told about pending migrations.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
/etc/systemd/zram-generator.conf collided with the copy archinstall writes on
every ISO install. zram-generator.conf(5) reserves /etc for the local admin and
has vendors ship snippets under /usr/lib/systemd/zram-generator.conf.d/, where
drop-ins outrank the main config file.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LjeyQZsNBxqyYy9z8KaKm7
omarchy ships etc/systemd/logind.conf.d/20-inhibit-delay.conf, which raises
InhibitDelayMaxSec so the pre-suspend lock can finish securing the session
before logind stops honouring its inhibitor and suspends anyway.
package() already installs it along with the rest of the etc tree, so this
changes nothing about whether the file lands. Listing it here is what keeps
pacman from clobbering a user's edit to it on upgrade, matching every other
/etc path this package owns.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
