Distribute Bloom via Pacman package, for Arch Linux users

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Distribute Bloom via Pacman package, for Arch Linux users

[maximevince]

Hey @navnavnav,

With pleasure.
On Arch, this is the way users can add support for a package, when it's not in the official binary repo's yet.
It's really a single command to install this, for every Arch user now: e.g. yay -S bloom-git.
The build from source procedure is what I've described in the "PKGBUILD" file (you can see it here: https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=bloom-git).
It's building and running fine using that PKGBUILD.

Arch is a rolling release with mostly "bleeding-edge" packages, so PHP is version 8.1.4 right now, for all Arch users. So that's not a problem either.

That being said, I agree that an official binary build would be even better!

[maximevince]

I created this: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/bloom-git
It's not an official Arch Linux package, but allows user to install through the AUR (Arch User Repository).

[navnavnav]

@maximevince Thanks for this!

Is that a "build from source" package? I'm not very familiar with package management on Arch Linux. The Debian and RPM packages are binary packages. They also include shared objects of some third-party libraries for various reasons (licensing, lack of availability in some package management systems, etc).

Hmm, I'm not sure if that PHP 7 dependency is quite right. PHP 8 is required to build Bloom (for the TDF validation scripts). Those validation scripts use PHP features that are only available in PHP 8.

Honestly, I wouldn't bother yourself with a "build from source" package. It would be a lot of pain. IMO it's a lot easier to ship pre-built binary packages.

BTW I hope to get an Arch Linux package sorted after the TargetController refactor work. I'm not sure when that will be, but will keep this ticket updated 👍🏽

[navnavnav]

Version 0.9.0 has just been released. This includes support for Pacman packages. See the Bloom download page (https://bloom.oscillate.io/download) to download the Pacman package. Closing this now.