Packages

Leaving the Omarchy repository

Omarchy ships its own binary repository, added to /etc/pacman.conf:

[omarchy]
Server = https://pkgs.omarchy.org/stable/$arch

Thirty-one installed packages came from it. blob-repo-migrate moves off it. Run it dry first; it changes nothing without --apply:

blob repo-migrate
blob repo-migrate --apply

It refuses to run if the stock linux package is not installed, because it removes linux-omarchy.

What happens to each package

Removed (15)

Omarchy's own software, plus one hardware helper this machine has no use for:

omarchy, omarchy-keyring, omarchy-settings, omarchy-nvim, omacalc, omacut, omawrite, tensaku, tobi-try, cliamp, herdr, ttfx, linux-omarchy, linux-omarchy-headers, asdcontrol.

linux-omarchy was installed but not booted - the running kernel is stock core/linux, so the machine is not relying on it. asdcontrol sets brightness on Apple Studio Displays and is reachable only from blob-brightness-display-apple.

Replaced (2)

From	To	Where
`ttf-jetbrains-mono-nerd-basic`	`ttf-jetbrains-mono-nerd`	official `extra`
`hyprland-preview-share-picker`	`hyprland-preview-share-picker-git`	AUR

The first is Omarchy's trimmed build of a font Arch ships in full.

Kept, from the AUR (14)

aether, limine-mkinitcpio-hook, limine-snapper-sync, localsend, minecraft-launcher, mise-bin, spotify, ttf-ia-writer, tzupdate, ufw-docker, visual-studio-code-bin, xdg-terminal-exec, yaru-icon-theme, yay.

All exist in the AUR under the same name. Once the repository is gone, pacman treats them as foreign and yay picks them up, so blob update rebuilds them from source. The first update after migrating therefore takes noticeably longer than usual.

Two are worth knowing about:

xdg-terminal-exec is load-bearing. Every TUI launcher's Exec= line calls it, so if its AUR build ever fails, TUI shortcuts stop opening.
aether is in the AUR at a version newer than the one the repository shipped.

quickshell never came from the Omarchy repository - it is in official extra.

Updating

blob update

Refreshes the keyring, runs pacman -Syu, runs yay -Sua when the AUR is reachable, prunes orphans, and sends a notification. blob update-available prints the pending count that the bar's update indicator reads.

This replaces 27 upstream scripts of channel, migration, and version-pinning machinery. There are no release channels: there is one repository set, which is Arch plus the AUR.

After migrating

pacman -Qtdq        # orphans the removals left behind
pacman -Qm          # everything now AUR-managed

blob-repo-migrate backs up /etc/pacman.conf to pacman.conf.bak.<epoch> before editing, and prints the path.

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