opam: Fix some issues and improve loader implementation

This MR contains some fixes and improvements for the opam loader.

It should be reviewed on a per commit basis.

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Neat.

Thanks.

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mentioned in issue swh/infra/sysadm-environment#4971 (closed)

merged