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@archlinux.org> wrote: >> >> On 25/3/19 4:34 am, Robin Broda via arch-dev-public wrote: >>> This change requires a new pacman release, as as of writing this, zstd >>> support is in master but hasn't landed in a release yet. >> >> Which is a complete blocker for quite a period of time. >> >> 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. Rob
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