Explore the Holo Core aarch64 preview, with early binaries, sources, and containers for an Arch Linux-based Arm port backed by reproducible CI tooling.
It doesn’t appear to rely on ALARM, does it? I haven’t dug through the sources thoroughly yet, but I haven’t see anything there that indicates they’re using ALARM stuff.
Yeah, they jumped straight into reinventing the wheel for some reason. Alarm forums may be dead but the project and repos are still getting updates. Why spin your own shit?
The existing stuff needs to be adapted, not reinvented. In my time as packaging some software for my own use under openSUSE I barely seen software that needed adaptions in the package spec file for other CPU architectures. Emulators were the most common exceptions I encountered and even that changed a lot since then thanks to upstreams porting those to Android and Apple M processors. Collabora lists as main challenges the ability to access the upstream source codes for reproducibility, not “repositories, recipes, and support paths”.
It doesn’t appear to rely on ALARM, does it? I haven’t dug through the sources thoroughly yet, but I haven’t see anything there that indicates they’re using ALARM stuff.
Yeah, they jumped straight into reinventing the wheel for some reason. Alarm forums may be dead but the project and repos are still getting updates. Why spin your own shit?
What’s there to reinvent? Upstream Linux software already builds for ARM.
Package repositories, recipes, and support paths
The existing stuff needs to be adapted, not reinvented. In my time as packaging some software for my own use under openSUSE I barely seen software that needed adaptions in the package spec file for other CPU architectures. Emulators were the most common exceptions I encountered and even that changed a lot since then thanks to upstreams porting those to Android and Apple M processors. Collabora lists as main challenges the ability to access the upstream source codes for reproducibility, not “repositories, recipes, and support paths”.
Did ALARM have reproducible builds? They go into that in the article.