On 25/3/19 9:28 am, Robin Broda via arch-dev-public wrote:
On 3/25/19 12:22 AM, Andrew Gregory wrote:
On 03/25/19 at 12:15am, Robin Broda via arch-dev-public wrote:
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:
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.
We still need a hold-off period, we're just waiting to make sure people have libarchive v3.3.3 instead of pacman v5.2.0.
That update happened half a year ago, i'm sure that most people with an installation that old will already have to fetch other packages, like the keyring, separately for it to go through.
Fetching a keyring does not potentially bump sonames.
Plus, with libarchives' release cycle, i don't think that libarchive itself is gonna be rebuilt immediately after the change is implemented - providing extra time to upgrade libarchive without having to download a release packed as xz separately.
And if openssl gets and soname bump? A