zram-generator creates no device at all when nothing configures one, so the
/etc copy is the only thing holding up swap until the vendor drop-in lands.
Removing it early costs a machine its zram entirely, not just its tuning.
The update pipeline installs packages before it runs migrations, so a packaged
machine always has the drop-in by then. A dev checkout does not: omarchy-update-dev
pulls migrations from a release the installed package has never seen, and no
ordering of the pipeline can produce a file that has not been built yet.
Checking for the drop-in is what makes the removal safe rather than well
sequenced.
The tests pinned the drop-in path to a fixture as well. Left at the real path
they would pass or fail on whether the machine running them happened to carry
the packaged copy.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
pacman checks file conflicts during transaction prepare, so the --overwrite
entry added alongside /etc/systemd/zram-generator.conf never got to run: the
copy of omarchy-update-system-pkgs driving the upgrade is the one already on
disk. Every machine carrying archinstall's copy aborted the transaction.
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. Nothing collides, and the tuning wins whether or not
archinstall's file is still around.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LjeyQZsNBxqyYy9z8KaKm7
