On 3/24/19 11:20 PM, Evangelos Foutras via arch-dev-public wrote:
On Sun, 24 Mar 2019 at 23:45, Allan McRae via arch-dev-public <arch-dev-public@archlinux.org> wrote:
On 25/3/19 4:34 am, Robin Broda via arch-dev-public wrote:
This change requires a new pacman release, as as of writing this, zstd support is in master but hasn't landed in a release yet.
Which is a complete blocker for quite a period of time.
We need to assume every system has a copy of pacman-5.2+ before we can switch packages to zstd.
Why is pacman support needed here? I can already install .zstd packages using pacman 5.1.3.
The crucial part seems to be libarchive support, which was added in v3.3.3 (~ September 2018).
Yes, installing zstd packages works - the pacman release is merely required for makepkg. Unless that has already landed too, which would be news to me :) Thus i don't think we need a hold-off period like this, Allan. Rob