From fa17b5b69f709df1fee48cf40592083791b86bda Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Heinemeier Hansson <david@hey.com>
Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2026 15:19:29 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Use sudo keepalive to ensure that we don't get a sudo timeout
 on a long-running install

---
 bin/omarchy-pkg-aur-install |  3 ++-
 bin/omarchy-pkg-install     |  4 +++-
 bin/omarchy-sudo-keepalive  | 10 ++++++++++
 3 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
 create mode 100755 bin/omarchy-sudo-keepalive

diff --git a/bin/omarchy-pkg-aur-install b/bin/omarchy-pkg-aur-install
index 02c506b3..89340162 100755
--- a/bin/omarchy-pkg-aur-install
+++ b/bin/omarchy-pkg-aur-install
@@ -20,7 +20,8 @@ pkg_names=$(yay -Slqa | fzf "${fzf_args[@]}")
 
 if [[ -n $pkg_names ]]; then
   # Add aur/ prefix to each package name and convert to space-separated for yay
-  sudo -v
+  source omarchy-sudo-keepalive
+
   echo "$pkg_names" | sed 's/^/aur\//' | tr '\n' ' ' | xargs yay -S --noconfirm
   sudo updatedb
   omarchy-show-done
diff --git a/bin/omarchy-pkg-install b/bin/omarchy-pkg-install
index 09386161..8399da9c 100755
--- a/bin/omarchy-pkg-install
+++ b/bin/omarchy-pkg-install
@@ -17,7 +17,9 @@ fzf_args=(
 pkg_names=$(pacman -Slq | fzf "${fzf_args[@]}")
 
 if [[ -n $pkg_names ]]; then
-  # Convert newline-separated selections to space-separated for yay
+  source omarchy-sudo-keepalive
+
+  # Convert newline-separated selections to space-separated for pacman
   echo "$pkg_names" | tr '\n' ' ' | xargs sudo pacman -S --noconfirm
   omarchy-show-done
 fi
diff --git a/bin/omarchy-sudo-keepalive b/bin/omarchy-sudo-keepalive
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..c475198b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bin/omarchy-sudo-keepalive
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+# Prompt for sudo once and keep the credential alive in the background.
+# Source this script so the trap applies to the calling shell:
+#   source omarchy-sudo-keepalive
+
+sudo -v
+while true; do sudo -n true; sleep 60; done 2>/dev/null &
+SUDO_KEEPALIVE_PID=$!
+trap "kill $SUDO_KEEPALIVE_PID 2>/dev/null" EXIT