Re: [pacman-dev] [PATCH] makepkg: restrict pkgname and pkgver to ascii

On 3/6/19 5:32 pm, Andrew Gregory wrote:

pkgname and pkgver are used as directory names within database files. libarchive does not provide a reliable locale-independent method for reading archive file names, causing errors when archive paths include non-ascii characters.

This is a first step toward dealing with FS#49342, by hopefully reducing the number of packages with non-ascii data in the wild before updating libalpm to reject them outright.

See https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/wiki/Filenames and https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues/587

Signed-off-by: Andrew Gregory <andrew.gregory.8@gmail.com>

This is a sad limitation of libarchive. Patch is fine as we need to be robust to it. A