Installing armv7h chroot

[evand]

I've got Arch isntalled and running on an ODROID C2.

Thought I'd give this a try again to see whether issues I'd encountered previously have been resolved so I can run an armv7h package on the C2.

Using a custom pacman.conf that specifies:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'Architecture = armv7h')

I've done the following as root:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '
pacman -S devtools
mkdir ~/chroot
CHROOT=$HOME/chroot
mkarchroot -C ./pacman.conf $CHROOT/root base base-devel
')

Right at the end of mkarchroot running I get this:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', ':: Running post-transaction hooks...
(1/3) Updating the info directory file...
(2/3) Updating udev Hardware Database...
(3/3) Rebuilding certificate stores...
cp: cannot stat '/etc/pacman.d/gnupg': No such file or directory
setarch: armv7h: Unrecognized architecture
')

Any ideas how/why armv7h is an "Unrecognized architecture"?

[WarheadsSE]

Your best bet for this is to actually use the pacman.conf for armv7h, out of the repositories.

[evand]

Thanks WarheadsSE, I since extracted pacman.conf from ArchLinuxARM-odroid-c1-latest.tar.gz of a few months back and reran the above only to get an identical outcome:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', ':: Running post-transaction hooks...
(1/3) Updating the info directory file...
(2/3) Updating udev Hardware Database...
(3/3) Rebuilding certificate stores...
cp: cannot stat '/etc/pacman.d/gnupg': No such file or directory
setarch: armv7h: Unrecognized architecture
')

FWIW, trying to gdownload the latest C1 build yields an error:$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '# wget http://os.archlinuxarm.org/os/ArchLinuxARM-odroid-c1-latest.tar.gz
--2016-09-20 15:18:25-- http://os.archlinuxarm.org/os/ArchLinuxARM-odroid-c1-latest.tar.gz
Resolving os.archlinuxarm.org (os.archlinuxarm.org)... 50.116.36.110
Connecting to os.archlinuxarm.org (os.archlinuxarm.org)|50.116.36.110|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location: http://za.mirror.archlinuxarm.org/os/ArchLinuxARM-odroid-c1-latest.tar.gz [following]
--2016-09-20 15:18:26-- http://za.mirror.archlinuxarm.org/os/ArchLinuxARM-odroid-c1-latest.tar.gz
Resolving za.mirror.archlinuxarm.org (za.mirror.archlinuxarm.org)... 154.70.152.166
Connecting to za.mirror.archlinuxarm.org (za.mirror.archlinuxarm.org)|154.70.152.166|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 403 Forbidden
2016-09-20 15:18:26 ERROR 403: Forbidden.
')

Web browser access yields the same:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'You don't have permission to access /os/ArchLinuxARM-odroid-c1-latest.tar.gz on this server.')

[moonman]

Here is a direct link to a mirror: $this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'http://co.us.mirror.archlinuxarm.org/os/ArchLinuxARM-odroid-c1-latest.tar.gz')

[mwq]

I used pacstrap to create a armv7h chroot. And that was successful.

Full commands:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '
cp /etc/pacman.conf ./pacman.conf
sed -i "s/^Architecture =.*/Architecture = armv7h/g" ./pacman.conf
pacstrap -i -C ./pacman.conf -d ${CHROOTDIR} base --ignore linux
')

You may substitute ${CHROOTDIR} for something else.