On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 7:31 PM, Dave Reisner <[email protected]> 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 I noticed last week that we're a bit out of date on libarchive, and 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. > 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
