Support Arch Linux ARM

[Necoro]

As requested by @df8oe on AUR (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/arch-log#comment-935275), support for ARM port would be a nice to have.

What I know currently:

• general package info can be requested from https://archlinuxarm.org/packages (the search function uses HTTP POST underneath)
• with the result, one can lookup detail infos from the Arch ARM Github (https://github.com/archlinuxarm/PKGBUILDs)
• package detail pages on archlinuxarm.org also exist -- but the provided links for changes and sources no longer work (example: https://archlinuxarm.org/packages/armv7h/zstd)

What I'm planning:

• no support for architecture
• addtional option --arm to prefer ARM repos over vanilla Arch and AUR
• similar to aur/, provide the pseudo repo arm/. Opposed to --arm this forces the package to be part of ARM repos
• so far, no support for sub-repos in ARM (core, extra, aur, alarm) is planned. @df8oe: If you'd find it useful, please say so :)
• log will be similar to AUR, as ARM also does not provide tag information

[df8oe]

Hi,
thank you for thinking about that. I know arm ist different. But I think it can be done more precise... There is a package "downgrade" which works perfectly with arm architecture. It uses this url - I think you do not know it: http://tardis.tiny-vps.com/aarm/ There you can extract infos for repos like e.g. extra and multiple arm architectures. Sadly there is no changelog as I see but using this can make things better and easier... Raspberry Pi and similar are often used headless for home automation and small home server tasks and so often are maintained via ssh. arch-log is a perfect tool for maintaining the system.

[Necoro]

Hi @df8oe,
the information downgrade uses and the information arch-log needs, are disjoint: downgrade operates on the built packages, while arch-log uses the PKGBUILD information (and the SCM repository where they reside). That's also why I ran into problems in #4: on the source level, the Arch repo structure does not exist.

[Necoro]

Development happens on branch feature/arm

[df8oe]

Thanks for clarification. So your approach is the best what is possible.

[df8oe]

Thanks! If you want I can build it from the sources and do beta testing ;)