Make package ownership the Quattro update boundary - #9070
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Why
#8655 exposed a dangerous rollback boundary in the automatic Pacman file-conflict recovery. #9053 made that recovery safer, but kept the wrong long-term model: an ordinary update still tried to move unexpected root paths out of Pacman's way.
This supersedes both approaches. The 3.x to Quattro upgrade is the ownership boundary. It adopts the known legacy files once; after that, ordinary updates trust Pacman's package database and fail on unexpected filesystem state instead of rewriting it.
What changed
omarchy-upgrade-to-quattrouses exactly one--overwrite='*', scoped to theomarchy-settingsinstall that adopts the known 3.x configuration paths. No other Quattro install uses overwrite.omarchy-update-system-pkgsperforms a normalpacman -Syuwith no overwrite, quarantine, root-path moves, or filesystem-conflict retry.backup=()entries.Proof
From this checkout, with the companion package repository checked out on its linked branch:
To reproduce the package-level proof against the actual built payload:
The focused suite passes. The aggregate CLI suite passes, and 216/219 shell test files pass. The remaining three failures reproduce unchanged on the base branch: an IPC-handler timing flake, an installed-helper ambient-environment test, and a
/homemount-namespace assumption.Release order
omarchyandomarchy-settingsare pinned together.master,rc, anddevbootstrap PRs.The legacy bootstrap PRs must not merge before v4.0.2 is published, or 3.x users could adopt the older 4.0.1 payload.
From the package repository, the release commands are:
bin/omarchy-release pick 9070 bin/omarchy-release rc # After validating the release candidate: bin/omarchy-release shipFor a machine already on the vulnerable Quattro 4.0.1 updater, the safe first hop after v4.0.2 is published is:
Companion PRs