Quad4 Arch

Unofficial pacman repository for Quad4 software. Hosted at arch.quad4.io.

Install

Append this to /etc/pacman.conf after the official [core] and [extra] blocks, or copy conf/pacman-quad4.conf:

[quad4]
SigLevel = Optional TrustAll
Server = https://arch.quad4.io/$arch
Server = https://github.com/Quad4-Software/arch/releases/download/repo-$arch

Then:

sudo pacman -Syu
sudo pacman -S reticulum-go meshchatx

The first Server is arch.quad4.io. The second is a rolling GitHub Release named repo-$arch.

Packages are unsigned until a key is placed at keys/quad4.gpg. Keep SigLevel = Optional TrustAll until then. After packages and the database are signed, switch to SigLevel = Required and import the public key.

Packages

Package	Description
reticulum-go	Reticulum-Go, prebuilt GitHub release (x86_64, aarch64, armv7h)
reticulum-go-git	Reticulum-Go built from master
meshchatx	MeshChatX AppImage (x86_64, aarch64)
meshchatx-git	MeshChatX built from master

reticulum-go conflicts with reticulum-go-git. meshchatx conflicts with meshchatx-git.

Development

On Arch, makepkg and repo-add run on the host. Elsewhere, scripts use the pinned archlinux:base-devel image from conf/ci-pins.env.

make check
make build
make repo
make pages

Bump a binary package after an upstream release:

sh scripts/bump-binary.sh reticulum-go v1.0.2
sh scripts/bump-binary.sh meshchatx v4.8.2

Scaffold a new package:

sh scripts/new-pkg.sh other-tool --kind binary --github Quad4-Software/other-tool --tag v0.1.0
sh scripts/new-pkg.sh other-tool-git --kind git --github Quad4-Software/other-tool

Edit package() in the new PKGBUILD, then add matrix rows in .github/workflows/ci.yml and publish.yml.

Rebuild from another Quad4 repository (needs actions: write on this repo):

gh api repos/Quad4-Software/arch/dispatches -f event_type=quad4-rebuild

License

PKGBUILDs, scripts, and CI are 0BSD.

Packaged software keeps its own license, recorded in each PKGBUILD license= field:

• Reticulum-Go: Apache-2.0
• MeshChatX: 0BSD, with upstream MIT