Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Moving to pkg.tar.xz officially?
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 3:16 PM, Pierre Schmitz <pierre@archlinux.de> wrote:
Hi all,
some of us already commit xz compressed packages, others don't. We didn't really decide on this yet.
So, is there a reason not to recommond every TU and Dev to change PKGEXT to .pkg.tar.xz?
We might also want to write a little announcement to inform users about this change. While most of them wont be affected, some would have to adjust their custom scripts. And for those who use netinstall on a 2009.02 or older iso would have to run pacman -Syu once to get a version of libarchive which is able to deal with xz.
If wanted I also could add a check to devtools which issues a warning if xz is not used.
Greetings,
Pierre
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Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre
What about devs/tus who also maintain AUR packages? As I recall AUR doesn't accept .tar.xz yet?
Am Dienstag, 9. März 2010 09:19:22 schrieb Ng Oon-Ee:
What about devs/tus who also maintain AUR packages? As I recall AUR doesn't accept .tar.xz yet?
You cannot upload packages to AUR anyway. Source packages can be kept as src.tar.gz. There shouldn't be a reall difference if you compress a pkgbuild with gz or xz. -- Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre
On 09/03/2010, Pierre Schmitz <pierre@archlinux.de> wrote:
Am Dienstag, 9. März 2010 09:19:22 schrieb Ng Oon-Ee:
What about devs/tus who also maintain AUR packages? As I recall AUR doesn't accept .tar.xz yet?
You cannot upload packages to AUR anyway. Source packages can be kept as src.tar.gz. There shouldn't be a reall difference if you compress a pkgbuild with gz or xz.
Yep, the lzma change is only relevant for binaries, and all you need to change is the third-last character of the second-last variable in /etc/makepkg.conf :) Btw, aside from namcap (which Ghost1227 semi-patched for PKGBUILD.com), bash-completion for pacman needs to be updated. -- GPG/PGP ID: B42DDCAD
On 09/03/10 20:09, Ray Rashif wrote:
Btw, aside from namcap (which Ghost1227 semi-patched for PKGBUILD.com),
Why... namcap in testing works fine.
bash-completion for pacman needs to be updated.
Fixed in git: http://projects.archlinux.org/pacman.git/commit/?id=d85421ec
On 09/03/2010, Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org> wrote:
On 09/03/10 20:09, Ray Rashif wrote:
Btw, aside from namcap (which Ghost1227 semi-patched for PKGBUILD.com),
Why... namcap in testing works fine.
bash-completion for pacman needs to be updated.
Fixed in git: http://projects.archlinux.org/pacman.git/commit/?id=d85421ec
Great, then that takes care of everything now. -- GPG/PGP ID: B42DDCAD
Il 09/03/2010 11:23, Allan McRae ha scritto:
Why... namcap in testing works fine.
Well, what about moving testing/namcap to extra? -- Arch Linux Developer http://www.archlinux.org http://www.archlinux.it
On Tuesday 09 March 2010 13:19:58 Giovanni Scafora wrote:
Well, what about moving testing/namcap to extra? ok, for me.
-- Andrea
Il 09/03/2010 11:23, Allan McRae ha scritto:
Fixed in git: http://projects.archlinux.org/pacman.git/commit/?id=d85421ec
Well, then do we should expect a new release of pacman? -- Arch Linux Developer http://www.archlinux.org http://www.archlinux.it
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Allan McRae
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Andrea Scarpino
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Giovanni Scafora
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Ng Oon-Ee
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Pierre Schmitz
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Ray Rashif