alarm is short for arch linux ARM, it's enabled by default on the ARM pacman.conf on arch. you're right, it contains mostly bootloaders, board-specific tools, anything that doesn't make sense in core/extra/community. Many of those packages are actually blacklisted, and we (used to?) package replacements for some.
-A On Sep 24 23, bill-auger wrote: > does anyone known what the 'alarm' repo is for? - it is not listed in the > default pacman.conf; but it is imported > > at first glance it appears to be board-specific tools, firmwares, and > applications (eg: ffmpeg-rpi, kodi-rpi, and VLC-rpi) - probably some, > many, or most of those are non-free; and probably none are on the blacklist > > gnutoo - maybe you can quickly identify some by name? > https://repo.parabola.nu/alarm/os/armv7h/ > > as it is not listed in the default pacman.conf, presumably we do not need > anything in it, so i suppose it could be safely deleted, rather than to filter > it > _______________________________________________ > Dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.parabola.nu/mailman/listinfo/dev -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ my GPG Public Key: https://files.grapentin.org/.gpg/public.key ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.parabola.nu/mailman/listinfo/dev
