On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 12:15 AM L A Walsh <[email protected]> wrote: > > I was out of touch from my normal internet connectivity for a few > months and when I got back and d/l'd rpms and tried to use them > I got an error: > > Failed dependencies: rpmlib(PayloadIsZstd) > > I tried building rpm from source, but it had several dependent > devel packages that also were encoded in the new format. > > Was a tool also part of the format-upgrade to allow for re-encoding > new rpms such that they might be readable by the old rpm? > OR...any suggestions on how I can bring my system into sync > with the newer format so that I can move forward? > > Suggestion: can rpm be enhanced to support plug-ins, where needed, > like when it wants to compress/decompress a payload, ala tar's: > > -I, --use-compress-program=COMMAND > Filter data through COMMAND. It must accept the -d option, for > decompression. The argument can contain command line options. > > Certainly would be a great help to allow for external plug-ins > in situations like this. >
What environment are you supporting? Can you upgrade to at least RPM 4.14 and build it against libzstd to add zstd compression support? -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ Rpm-maint mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rpm.org/mailman/listinfo/rpm-maint
