snap-store-proxy only available on amd64

[Jakub Vaněk]

Hi,

I'm currently trying to deploy a network cache for snaps on our home network. Unfortunately, the snap-store-proxy installation fails on my home server (Odroid-HC2, Ubuntu 20.04) with the following error:

$ sudo snap install snap-store-proxy
error: snap "snap-store-proxy" is not available on stable for this architecture (armhf) but exists
       on other architectures (amd64).

Would it be possible to recompile snap-store-proxy for ARM platforms as well?

I'm already using apt-cacher-ng for speeding up updates. We're running Ubuntu on multiple computers behind a slow uplink. Using a cache like this would allow us to download fewer data overall and complete update cycles faster.

Thank you and with regards,

Jakub

[Jakub Vaněk (vanek-jakub4)]

Can I somehow assist with this? I've tried to find the source code of snap-store-proxy, but I wasn't successful in that.

I could still somehow run the x86_64 binaries on the ARM server using QEMU. However, I'm guessing that the performance and stability wouldn't be optimal that way.

[Stéphane Graber (stgraber)]

Just noticed the same issue this week while moving some infrastructure services from containers on amd64 to containers on arm64 servers.

armhf as suggested in this bug may be a bit of a stretch as that's a 32bit architecture, but it'd be good to at least enable arm64, ppc64el and s390x if possible!