How are omarchy's repo packages updated?

[timmo001]

Cursor for example, is much newer on aur, and the omarchy mirror has not updated in a while.

Is this automated in some way? Can we trigger updates on more "bleeding edge" packages like this one?

I have switched to the edge repo to see if this is different but it is still on a much older version:

omarchy/bin ➜ cat /etc/pacman.conf                                                                                            master
# See the pacman.conf(5) manpage for option and repository directives

[options]
Color
ILoveCandy
VerbosePkgLists
HoldPkg = pacman glibc
Architecture = auto
CheckSpace
ParallelDownloads = 5
DownloadUser = alpm

# By default, pacman accepts packages signed by keys that its local keyring
# trusts (see pacman-key and its man page), as well as unsigned packages.
SigLevel = Required DatabaseOptional
LocalFileSigLevel = Optional

# pacman searches repositories in the order defined here
[core]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

[extra]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

[multilib]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

[omarchy]
SigLevel = Optional TrustAll
Server = https://pkgs.omarchy.org/edge/$arch
omarchy/bin ➜ yay -Ss cursor-bin                                                                                              master
aur/banana-cursor-bin 2.0.0-1 (+0 0.00)
    The banana mouse cursor
omarchy/cursor-bin 2.1.39-1 (42.8 MiB 181.2 MiB) (Installed)
    AI-first coding environment
aur/cursor-bin 2.1.49-1 (+65 4.73) (Installed: 2.1.39-1)
    AI-first coding environment
omarchy/bin ➜                                                                                                                 master

The current workaround is to install the package with aur specified (this is not a good solution as updates still have to be ran manually to override omarchy/*)

Example:

yay -S aur/cursor-bin

[marcoscannabrava]

I'd love to understand more about this as well since it causes some issues. I opened a bug ticket here that is a direct consequence of this.

[Hexoplon]

Things like cursor, discord, vscode and chromium are all updated quite frequently, with both bug fixes and new features. Chromium especially is particularly important that remains up to date, as there are constant security fixes.
Will packages like these be better maintained?

I have also encountered issues where discord has a new update, and it will not start until the update gets installed. That means I would be stuck without discord until omarchy decides to update its mirrors

[Chase78712002]

Yeh, I'm facing the same issue. I've installed discord, but it asks me to download updates when I launch it. I'm not sure what's the current workaround is. I tried to replace the downloaded update in the opt/discord/ folder, but that broke things. AI also says not to do that. Instead, AI suggests me to use flatpak, is that truly the better way?

[Chase78712002]

Okay, here's the best workaround specifically for Discord that I can find so far. It works for me. solution in the link as well.

Discord asks for an update not yet available in the repository

Discord will refuse to launch if there is an update available, and the following message will be shown >"Must be your lucky day, there's a new update!". If the updated version is not yet available in the official >repos, you can build and install the updated package using the Arch build system.

To disable the update check, add the line "SKIP_HOST_UPDATE": true to ~/.config/discord/>settings.json. If the file does not exist, create it and add the following:

~/.config/discord/settings.json

{
  "SKIP_HOST_UPDATE": true
}

Note that if the file exists, you will need to add an extra comma after the WINDOW_BOUNDS object >due to JSON requirements, i.e.:

{
  "IS_MAXIMIZED": true,
  "IS_MINIMIZED": false,
  "WINDOW_BOUNDS": {
    "x": 2240,
    "y": 219,
    "width": 1280,
    "height": 720
  },
  "SKIP_HOST_UPDATE": true
}

In case the above method still asks for an update a quick temporary alternative is to extract the new >discord-0.0.x.tar.gz file into e.g. /opt/discord-temporary/, change the name of the newly extracted >discord.desktop, and symlink it into your ~/.local/share/applications/ folder, preferably also changing the >Name inside the new discord.desktop file in order to differentiate it from your system discord client.

[derluke]

Cursor is on a month old version now. What exactly are the omarchy-specific changes? Is it just the theming support?

[timmo001]

I think this is all done in this repo via replace commands, so the omarchy one should just be a prebuilt version with no changes.

https://github.com/basecamp/omarchy/blob/master/bin/omarchy-theme-set-cursor
https://github.com/basecamp/omarchy/blob/master/bin/omarchy-theme-set-vscode

[Patolord]

Same question, can we update it manualy?