[arch-dev-public] RFC: (devtools) Changing default compression method to zstd

[Allan McRae]

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 at 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?

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