On Sun, 24 Mar 2019 at 23:45, Allan McRae via arch-dev-public <[email protected]> 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).
