Linux ARM processor - RPMs do not exist on cloudsmith.io mirror

[Greg Smethells]

Hello

I am looking to install erlang for rabbitmq-server using dnf on Rocky Linux 9 on an ARM processor but there appear to be no RPMs for erlang to be found on

https://yum1.novemberain.com/erlang/el/9/$basearch

when I following the instructions on https://www.rabbitmq.com/install-rpm.html and use the example RL9 /etc/yum.repos.d/rabbitmq.repo file provided there. Please help!

Thank you

Greg

[Arnaud Cogoluègnes]

You download them from the GitHub repository: https://github.com/rabbitmq/erlang-rpm/releases.

[Greg Smethells]

Thank you for the reply.

My concern with the suggested resolution is that that would then not keep up-to-date with any patches and, as the https://www.rabbitmq.com/install-rpm.html page says, it will "makes upgrades more difficult". 

Is there a reason why the RPMs for ARM are not also kept on the Cloudsmith mirror? Why is there a variant here for ARM?

[Michael Klishin]

The reason is quite simple: we are a small team and we do not have infinite resources to automate building and publishing RPMs and Debian packages of Erlang to three or four different sources, for 6 or so RPM distributions, and two architectures. The problem is solved for amd64, and we upload aarch64 packages to GitHub after building them in a different environment.

You can build your own aarch64 RPMs [1][2] and uploading them to your own PackageCloud or Cloudsmith accounts.

1. https://github.com/rabbitmq/erlang-rpm/

2. https://github.com/rabbitmq/erlang-rpm/blob/main/docker/build-packages.sh