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Interest in config option for TLS cert and key?
by nibo 17 Mar '26

17 Mar '26

Hello, I have an idea for a feature that I would like to write and eventually merge into pacman. I post in this mailing list to find out if there is an interest in it before I start coding. My goal is to have a custom repository that can only be used by me. First I tried to create an ssh host in ~/.ssh/config ... ``` Host Custom Hostname custom.org User root Port 1 IdentityFile /path/to/file ``` ... and then use it /etc/pacman.conf ... ``` [custom] Server = ssh://Custom:~/path/to/repo ``` ... but that doesn't work. But https URLs do work. So if I could specify a TLS certificate that is signed by a certificate authority certificate that I control I could use a regular https URL but still be the only one with the required TLS certificate to connect. From what I saw libalpm uses libcurl. libcurl has options like `CURLOPT_SSLCERT` and `CURLOPT_SSLKEY` that can be set with `curl_easy_setopt`. Those two options could be controlled through the pacman configuration file. Maybe there is a better solution already available without changing any code that I overlooked. Maybe you have a different solution to my goal. Maybe you are a maintainer and know that such a feature is not wanted. I'm interested in hearing all these thoughts. Best regards, nibo

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Parallel signature checks
by Isaac Yeo 04 Mar '26

04 Mar '26

Hullo folks, Wonder if I could try implementing parallel package signature checks? On some old systems with large upgrades it'd spend over a minute just checking signatures. Would be a nice qol upgrade imo, is this worth taking a stab at? P.S. I'm new here, pardon if this has been asked before :) - Isaac

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[Git][pacman/pacman][release/7.1.x] Prevent overflow when sorting package download order
by Allan McRae (＠allan) 04 Feb '26

04 Feb '26

Allan McRae pushed to branch release/7.1.x at Pacman / Pacman Commits: cb7452f6 by Allan McRae at 2026-02-05T09:53:42+10:00 Prevent overflow when sorting package download order When comparing the package download size, the difference is cast to an int. This results in an integer overflow for very large packages. Return -1, 0, or 1 to indicate relative size to avoid the overflow. Fixes #305. Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan(a)archlinux.org> - - - - - 1 changed file: - lib/libalpm/dload.c View it on GitLab: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/pacman/pacman/-/commit/cb7452f63414291b5206116… -- View it on GitLab: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/pacman/pacman/-/commit/cb7452f63414291b5206116… You're receiving this email because of your account on gitlab.archlinux.org.

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[Git][pacman/pacman][master] Prevent overflow when sorting package download order
by Allan McRae (＠allan) 04 Feb '26

04 Feb '26

Allan McRae pushed to branch master at Pacman / Pacman Commits: a6f7467d by Allan McRae at 2026-01-25T22:50:56+10:00 Prevent overflow when sorting package download order When comparing the package download size, the difference is cast to an int. This results in an integer overflow for very large packages. Return -1, 0, or 1 to indicate relative size to avoid the overflow. Fixes #305. Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan(a)archlinux.org> - - - - - 1 changed file: - lib/libalpm/dload.c View it on GitLab: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/pacman/pacman/-/commit/a6f7467d8c7c4d7e9cc8468… -- View it on GitLab: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/pacman/pacman/-/commit/a6f7467d8c7c4d7e9cc8468… You're receiving this email because of your account on gitlab.archlinux.org.

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[Git][pacman/pacman][release/7.1.x] libmakepkg: fix linting of xdata
by Allan McRae (＠allan) 07 Jan '26

07 Jan '26

Allan McRae pushed to branch release/7.1.x at Pacman / Pacman Commits: 54d94116 by Allan McRae at 2026-01-07T21:33:46+10:00 libmakepkg: fix linting of xdata Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan(a)archlinux.org> (cherry picked from commit 2979f35840f1adbb04fee2d224d114a079c0e803) - - - - - 1 changed file: - scripts/libmakepkg/lint_pkgbuild/xdata.sh.in View it on GitLab: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/pacman/pacman/-/commit/54d94116164b0b2202c6061… -- View it on GitLab: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/pacman/pacman/-/commit/54d94116164b0b2202c6061… You're receiving this email because of your account on gitlab.archlinux.org.

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[Git][pacman/pacman][master] libmakepkg: fix linting of xdata
by Allan McRae (＠allan) 07 Jan '26

07 Jan '26

Allan McRae pushed to branch master at Pacman / Pacman Commits: 2979f358 by Allan McRae at 2026-01-07T21:30:47+10:00 libmakepkg: fix linting of xdata Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan(a)archlinux.org> - - - - - 1 changed file: - scripts/libmakepkg/lint_pkgbuild/xdata.sh.in View it on GitLab: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/pacman/pacman/-/commit/2979f35840f1adbb04fee2d… -- View it on GitLab: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/pacman/pacman/-/commit/2979f35840f1adbb04fee2d… You're receiving this email because of your account on gitlab.archlinux.org.

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[Git][pacman/pacman][release/7.1.x] repo-add: prevent package file deletion with -R is readding a package
by Allan McRae (＠allan) 07 Jan '26

07 Jan '26

Allan McRae pushed to branch release/7.1.x at Pacman / Pacman Commits: 563f038b by Allan McRae at 2026-01-07T10:25:07+10:00 repo-add: prevent package file deletion with -R is readding a package Using "repo-add -R" on a package file that was already present in the repo resulted in the package file being deleted. Given the package file was being readded to the repo, this was likely not the desired outcome. Fixes #294. Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan(a)archlinux.org> (cherry picked from commit 5ff7d06b5c63952b2e2e229b7bcdfe58d6c22306) - - - - - 1 changed file: - scripts/repo-add.sh.in View it on GitLab: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/pacman/pacman/-/commit/563f038b27bdd977079bfb5… -- View it on GitLab: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/pacman/pacman/-/commit/563f038b27bdd977079bfb5… You're receiving this email because of your account on gitlab.archlinux.org.

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[Git][pacman/pacman][master] Add Sccache support.
by Allan McRae (＠allan) 07 Jan '26

07 Jan '26

Allan McRae pushed to branch master at Pacman / Pacman Commits: 2c3146dc by Arya Storm at 2026-01-07T10:12:24+10:00 Add Sccache support. - - - - - 10 changed files: - doc/PKGBUILD.5.asciidoc - doc/makepkg.conf.5.asciidoc - etc/makepkg.conf.in - scripts/libmakepkg/buildenv.sh.in - scripts/libmakepkg/buildenv/compiler.sh.in - scripts/libmakepkg/executable/meson.build - + scripts/libmakepkg/executable/sccache.sh.in - scripts/libmakepkg/lint_config/buildenv.sh.in - scripts/makepkg.sh.in - scripts/po/POTFILES.in View it on GitLab: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/pacman/pacman/-/commit/2c3146dcca6ae74d40db141… -- View it on GitLab: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/pacman/pacman/-/commit/2c3146dcca6ae74d40db141… You're receiving this email because of your account on gitlab.archlinux.org.

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[Git][pacman/pacman][master] meson: use built-in summary function
by Allan McRae (＠allan) 07 Jan '26

07 Jan '26

Allan McRae pushed to branch master at Pacman / Pacman Commits: 80e3a98b by Thomas Lange at 2026-01-07T09:54:57+10:00 meson: use built-in summary function See also: https://mesonbuild.com/Reference-manual_functions.html#summary - - - - - 1 changed file: - meson.build View it on GitLab: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/pacman/pacman/-/commit/80e3a98b258705a04f64c31… -- View it on GitLab: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/pacman/pacman/-/commit/80e3a98b258705a04f64c31… You're receiving this email because of your account on gitlab.archlinux.org.

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[Git][pacman/pacman][master] repo-add: prevent package file deletion with -R is readding a package
by Allan McRae (＠allan) 06 Jan '26

06 Jan '26

Allan McRae pushed to branch master at Pacman / Pacman Commits: 5ff7d06b by Allan McRae at 2025-12-20T19:47:09+10:00 repo-add: prevent package file deletion with -R is readding a package Using "repo-add -R" on a package file that was already present in the repo resulted in the package file being deleted. Given the package file was being readded to the repo, this was likely not the desired outcome. Fixes #294. Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan(a)archlinux.org> - - - - - 1 changed file: - scripts/repo-add.sh.in View it on GitLab: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/pacman/pacman/-/commit/5ff7d06b5c63952b2e2e229… -- View it on GitLab: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/pacman/pacman/-/commit/5ff7d06b5c63952b2e2e229… You're receiving this email because of your account on gitlab.archlinux.org.

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