omarchy-pkgs/pkgbuilds/omarchy-mac-boot

omarchy-mac-boot

Apple Silicon boot support for Omarchy: the Mac mkinitcpio drop-ins and initcpio hooks, in-place LUKS conversion in the initramfs, vendor firmware in early boot, first boot of a Mac image, the Limine activation gate and the boot check. The source is packages/omarchy-mac/boot/ in omacom/omarchy-mac, with its own tests. The recipe pins an exact omarchy-mac commit, copies that directory away from the surrounding desktop tree in prepare(), runs its test/all in check() and stages the package with its install script. The recipe itself holds only metadata, backup= and the pacman scriptlet.

It follows the fork recipe in maralcbr/omarchy-pkgs (asahi-quattro, pkgbuilds/omarchy-mac-boot at 20260921-10), which carried the payload as files in the recipe.

Scope

The package is aarch64-only and published to edge only. It widens to rc and stable only after M1 and M2 cold-boot qualification. It carries the Apple platform tag, groups=('omarchy-platform-apple-silicon'), which omarchy-settings' pacman platform guard uses to keep it off other machines once that guard ships (omacom/omarchy-mac#539, docs/platform-guard.md). Its only provides are the retired Apple-only names, and nothing generic depends on it or on them, so nothing generic can pull it onto non-Apple aarch64 machines. Its one Apple-only dependency, asahi-scripts, comes from the asahi-alarm repository that only the Apple profile configures.

It requires limine-mkinitcpio-hook 1.39.0-2 or newer: that is the first build whose hooks leave a Mac's /boot to mkinitcpio until Limine is activated. With an older hook, Limine's kernel hook replaces mkinitcpio's by name, and this package's limine-ready gate stops it on a Mac that still boots GRUB, so a kernel update would never reach /boot.

HOOKS baseline

From the source that drops the boot package's own Plymouth fragment (omacom/omarchy-mac#544), the Apple drop-ins build on omarchy-settings' HOOKS baseline, /etc/mkinitcpio.conf.d/00-omarchy-hooks.conf (omacom/omarchy-mac#536). With an older settings package the Mac initramfs loses Plymouth at the passphrase prompt. A settings version cannot express this: quattro candidate builds sort below stock releases, and omarchy pins its settings version exactly. So when the staged payload has no 93-omarchy-mac-plymouth.conf, package() adds a dependency on the name omarchy-mkinitcpio-hooks-baseline. Every settings package that ships the baseline on aarch64 (omarchy-settings, omarchy-settings-dev, candidate builds) must provide that name. Until one does, such a build of this package cannot be installed: it fails outright rather than silently booting without Plymouth.

Publish order

A new pin publishes on merge, so check what the pinned source needs first:

• Settings baseline. A pin that includes omacom/omarchy-mac#544 (no 93-omarchy-mac-plymouth.conf) needs omarchy-settings with the HOOKS baseline (omacom/omarchy-mac#542) published on aarch64, and providing omarchy-mkinitcpio-hooks-baseline. Publish that first; otherwise this build cannot be installed.
• Update verification. A pin that includes omacom/omarchy-mac#543 (/usr/lib/omarchy/mac-boot/update-verify) must publish before any runtime that carries #543. Otherwise that runtime blocks every update on Macs whose omarchy-mac-boot predates it.
• Reset and key-slot entrypoints. A pin that includes omacom/omarchy-mac#552 (reset-prepare, reset-verify, reset-commit, reset-rollback) and #553 (luks-slots) must publish before any runtime that carries them. That runtime's omarchy-lifecycle-dispatch requires them on Apple Silicon, so otherwise factory reset, owner setup and omarchy-drive-password on the system disk fail on Macs whose omarchy-mac-boot predates them.

Transition

• It provides, conflicts with and replaces omarchy-apple-boot and omarchy-first-boot. The scriptlet moves a pending omarchy-first-boot marker to omarchy-mac-first-boot, drops the replaced unit's dangling enable link and points at a customised 90-omarchy-asahi.conf.pacsave.
• pkgver is the UTC commit date of the pin, so any pin from 20260925 on upgrades the fork's 20260921-10 on mx-mac Macs. The files the fork shipped that the source no longer does (the image finalize tools, the upstream ARM repository key and the GRUB snapshot-menu hook) are removed by that upgrade.
• backup= covers every /etc file and /usr/lib/omarchy/initcpio. It includes /etc/default/update-m1n1, which pins update-m1n1's device-tree order to the C locale. On a Mac that already has its own unowned copy, pacman keeps it and installs the shipped one as .pacnew. The snapshot restore hooks in /etc/boot/hooks are symlinks to /usr/bin/omarchy-mac-snapshot-check, not files, so they stay out of it.

Updates

Updates are reviewed pins, never a branch:

1. Set _commit to the full omarchy-mac SHA and pkgver to its UTC commit date (TZ=UTC0 git show -s --format=%cd --date=format-local:%Y%m%d <sha>); prepare() checks both.
2. Reset pkgrel to 1 when pkgver changes; bump it for a second pin on the same date or a rebuild.
3. Refresh sha256sums with makepkg -g.