Improve arm packaging

[sproberts92]

I've had some trouble with making use of the packages in repos.influxdata.com.

For CentOS they are packaged for the armhf architecture, however the armhfp release of CentOS actually expects packages to be armv7hl. I am by no means an expert on arm architectures, but as far as I can tell, these refer to the same thing. Indeed I have been running your armhf build on my armv7hl CentOS install on a Raspberry Pi 3b+ for quite some time without issue.

The problem is that yum cannot install "different" architectures, so I have to wget and install with rpm directly, making the repo somewhat pointless.

I have recently switched up to Fedora 29 and arm64 on the RPi, but run into the same problem - the packages on repos.influxdata.com are all packaged for arm64, whereas the arm64 release of Fedora (and indeed the arm64 CentOS too) both expect aarch64 packages. Again these are the same thing as far as I know, and the package runs fine when installed manually, but the difference makes the the package manager and the repo not usable.

[Elwell]

Still an issue with the 1.7.7 release
[root@alfred ~]# rpm -Uvh ./influxdb-1.7.7.arm64.rpm
warning: ./influxdb-1.7.7.arm64.rpm: Header V4 RSA/SHA256 Signature, key ID 2582e0c5: NOKEY
Verifying... ################################# [100%]
Preparing... ################################# [100%]
package influxdb-1.7.7-1.arm64 is intended for a different architecture
[root@alfred ~]# uname -m
aarch64
[root@alfred ~]#

[avijc]

rpm -ivh --ignorearch influxdb-1.7.8.armhf.rpm

That works on my Raspberry Pi 3 B+ (which expects armv7hl), but having to install the package with --ignorearch feels wrong on so many levels.

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[avijc]

Just because this hasn't been fixed yet does not mean this is no longer an issue.

[milliams]

This is still an issue on CentOS 8 where the architecture is set to aarch64 but all the InfluxDB packaging is usingarm64. This both means that setting the YUM repo baseurl to https://repos.influxdata.com/centos/$releasever/$basearch/stable doesn't work but also even if you manually fix it to https://repos.influxdata.com/centos/$releasever/arm64/stable, any dnf install telegraf gives:

Error: 
 Problem: cannot install the best candidate for the job
  - package telegraf-1.14.5-1.arm64 does not have a compatible architecture

The only fix I can find for this is to use dnf download telegraf to grab the package locally and then to install it manually with RPM with rpm -ivh telegraf-*.rpm --ignorearch. This makes automating the install with something like Ansible very difficult.

CentOS/RHEL use the aarch64 terminology everywhere and, as far as I can see, never use arm64 (passing --forcearch=arm64 to DNF gives invalid choice: 'arm64') so I can't see a reason to use it in the InfluxDB repos.

[mkingsbury-orcadt]

Still an issue with release 1.8.0, CentOS 7, aarch64. As stated before by others, --ignorearch is just wrong, and isn't an option when using yum.

[hworld]

Just hit this when trying to install influxdb on the new Graviton2 machines that Amazon is pushing now. Seems like it's gonna be more and more important in the future since it's essentially the best price/performance on Amazon now. Since Amazon Linux is based on the centos/rhel stack, it's also aarch64.

[linuxgemini]

The issue of aarch64 packages being named arm64 is still ongoing.

[codyshepherd]

As of today, influxdb 1.8.7 rpms are available in aarch64 and armv7hl. InfluxDB 1.x and 2.x, as well as Kapacitor rpms should be available under these architectures going forward

[linuxgemini]

Thank you!

[linuxgemini]

Alright, I just seen that /usr/lib/influxdb/scripts/influxd-systemd-start.sh script chmod is set to u+x so it can't be executed by systemd. chmodding to ugo+x fixes it.

[codyshepherd]

I was able to repro this too. A fix is incoming with influxdata/influxdb#21987