[pacman-dev] [PATCH v2 3/3] repo-add: add support for the zst format

Allan McRae allan at archlinux.org
Sun Oct 8 14:06:55 UTC 2017


On 08/10/17 16:50, Eli Schwartz wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Eli Schwartz <eschwartz at archlinux.org>
> ---
> 
> I'm now wondering if it makes sense to import
> libmakepkg/util/compress.sh here for reuse. Currently repo-add checks
> the extensions twice and aborts on unknown extensions, but I'm not sure
> why we need to be stricter here than in makepkg itself.
> 

OK - but won't be pulled until a new libarchive release is made.


Also, we are not setup to use libmakepkg in repo-add.  And I have vague
plans to make repo-add a libalpm based program, so it is probably not
worth it.

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