On 03/25/19 at 12:15am, Robin Broda via arch-dev-public wrote: > 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 > > <[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). > > > > 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.
We still need a hold-off period, we're just waiting to make sure people have libarchive v3.3.3 instead of pacman v5.2.0.
