Arch / AUR: README install docs; packaging in recordly-aur

[firtoz]

Description

Adds user-facing Arch / Manjaro documentation in this repo (AUR badge + install section) so people can install via yay -S recordly-bin.

Packaging is not maintained in this tree. The canonical PKGBUILD, .desktop file, checksum automation, and AUR git pushes live in firtoz/recordly-aur. That keeps upstream free of per-release Arch chores (no pkgver / sha256sums bumps here).

The AUR package applies maintainer review items there, for example:

• Maintainer line and packaging hygiene
• Upstream MIT (LICENSE.md at the release tag) installed under /usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/
• Icon=dev.recordly.app, no empty MimeType=
• Pinned AppImage + license sha256sums, updated by update-aur.ts (Bun) + scheduled GitHub Actions

Local install from a self-built AppImage is documented in recordly-aur (PKGBUILD.from-source), not via npm scripts in this repo.

Motivation

Arch users get a clear path: AUR helper + link to how the package is built. Maintainers own release sync in recordly-aur without asking upstream to touch packaging on every release.

Type of change

• New Feature
• Bug Fix
• Refactor / Code Cleanup
• Documentation Update
• Other — distribution docs + external packaging home (recordly-aur)

Related issues

None.

For upstream maintainers

Nothing required on each release for Arch beyond normal tag + GitHub Release (AppImage + LICENSE.md at the tag). recordly-aur automation consumes that.

Screenshots / video

How to verify

• README: Arch section points to yay -S recordly-bin and recordly-aur.
• Install on Arch: yay -S recordly-bin (or build from templates in recordly-aur, not from packaging/arch in this repo).

Checklist

• Self-review
• Screenshots / video (N/A beyond existing)
• Related issues / changelog (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

[firtoz]

@webadderall updated PR, simplified greatly, now everything about the AUR stuff will live at https://github.com/firtoz/recordly-aur/

[webadderall]

Thanks for contributing towards Recordly