[arch-dev-public] libarchive 3.1.1 upgrade

[Dave Reisner]

On Sun, Feb 03, 2013 at 07:57:14PM -0600, Dan McGee wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 7:31 PM, Dave Reisner <d at falconindy.com> wrote:
> > I noticed last week that we're a bit out of date on libarchive, and
> > started looking into why. There's 3 things that immediately came up:
> >
> > 1) There's a soname bump. The list isn't huge though (15 packages)
> > 2) bsdtar's mtree file generation explodes. This is relevant for pacman
> > 4.1. I've already filed a bug and proposed a patch[1].
> > 3) There's a test suite failure in bsdcpio for lzo extraction. This
> > turned out to be a missing dep. libarchive now handles lzo via lzo2 so
> > we'd need to add it to depends. No big deal as lzo2 is already in [core].
> 
> 4) They aren't releasing tarballs because they can't host them on
> Github anymore. Seriously? Please become a real project again and
> release a stable cut of code hosted somewhere else at least; I know
> their Google code page could still do this for him.
> 

They ship build/autogen.sh which appropriately preps the build env. I
don't really mind since we're getting an autogenerated tarball from the
git tree.

> > Other than this, I've been running 3.1.1 without problems for roughly a
> > week now (logs say since 1/28) and haven't had any other issues. Mostly
> > aiming this at Dan and Allan, but once we have an upstream fix for the
> > legit bug here, is anyone opposed to doing this upgrade/rebuild? I know
> > we want to release pacman 4.1 soon, and it'd be probably be good not to
> > have these overlap too much.
> >
> > d
> >
> > [1] http://code.google.com/p/libarchive/issues/detail?id=301