[arch-general] how to upgrade 2017 server ?

[Shadrock Uhuru]

i have a server that has not been booted since 2017,
i tried upgrading with pacman -Syu,
i have post the screen output at http://paste.openstack.org/show/788264/
i thought adding Eli Schwartz' personal repository to  pacman.conf
would have allowed the upgrade with his Binary builds of pacman-static.
is my problem still to do with the xz to zstd change or something
different ?

shadrock