Add Arch Linux / AUR (yay) packaging

[firtoz]

Description

Adds packaging/arch/ with a PKGBUILD and helper files so Recordly can be installed on Arch Linux and Manjaro via the AUR (yay -S recordly-bin) or by building from this repo with makepkg -si. The package installs the prebuilt AppImage from GitHub releases and includes a desktop entry and icons.

Motivation

Arch/Manjaro users currently have to download the AppImage manually. Shipping an official PKGBUILD in the repo gives them a supported path (AUR or local build) and keeps the package definition in sync with upstream. The AUR package itself remains community-maintained; this PR only adds the packaging files to the main repo.

Type of Change

• New Feature
• Bug Fix
• Refactor / Code Cleanup
• Documentation Update
• Other (please specify)

Related Issue(s)

None.

Publishing to the AUR (for maintainers)

Once this is merged, the recordly-bin AUR package can be published or updated in two ways:

Recommended — automated: Add a GitHub Action that runs when you cut a release (e.g. on release:published). It can bump pkgver in the PKGBUILD, regenerate .SRCINFO, and push to the AUR. You’ll need an AUR SSH key stored as a repo secret; the AUR submission guidelines and various “update AUR from GitHub Actions” guides cover the setup.

Manual: Clone the AUR package (git clone ssh://aur@aur.archlinux.org/recordly-bin.git), copy packaging/arch/PKGBUILD, .SRCINFO, recordly.desktop, and LICENSE into the clone, run makepkg --printsrcinfo > .SRCINFO if you changed the PKGBUILD, then commit and push to the master branch. See packaging/arch/README.md for the exact steps.

Note: I’ll publish and maintain the AUR package manually for now so Arch users can install via yay -S recordly-bin right away. If you’d like to take over AUR maintainership or set up the automated workflow, I’m happy to hand it over (e.g. add you as co-maintainer on the AUR package or disown it in your favour).

Screenshots / Video

Testing Guide

On an Arch-based system (or in a container):

git clone https://github.com/webadderall/Recordly.git && cd Recordly/packaging/arch
makepkg -si

After install, recordly should be in PATH and the app should appear in the application menu with the correct icon. Uninstall with sudo pacman -R recordly-bin.

Checklist

• I have performed a self-review of my code.
• I have added any necessary screenshots or videos. (N/A)
• I have linked related issue(s) and updated the changelog if applicable. (N/A)

[webadderall]

Looks good overall and I’m fine with merging this direction, especially since you’re taking manual AUR maintainership.

Before merge, can you please: (1) replace the placeholder maintainer line in PKGBUILD with your actual maintainer info, and (2) install the upstream MIT app license into /usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/ (the packaging LICENSE file in this PR is not the app’s MIT license).

Small nitpick: remove empty MimeType= and consider Icon=dev.recordly.app plus pinned sha256sums per release.

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[firtoz]

@webadderall new style: i'll have a sister repo https://github.com/firtoz/recordly-aur here for aur mgmt? updated this PR to reflect that, so this repo will be the base and the aur one can pull from this one and update aur with a CRON

[firtoz]

@webadderall also added a local installation script, no more changes pending from me so ready to review 🙏

[webadderall]

Before merge, you need to (1) replace the placeholder maintainer line in PKGBUILD with your actual maintainer info, (2) install the upstream MIT app license into /usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/ (the packaging LICENSE file in this PR is not the app’s MIT license), (3) remove empty MimeType= and (4) consider Icon=dev.recordly.app plus pinned sha256sums per release.

This is from my previous comment

[webadderall]

Also, the readme documents a local source-package flow that does not exist