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FS#22359 - pacman can't handle xz files (libarchive dependency issue)

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Mr punkgode (punkgode) - Saturday, 08 January 2011, 17:40 GMT
Last edited by Dan McGee (toofishes) - Saturday, 08 January 2011, 17:58 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Core
Status Closed
Assigned To Dan McGee (toofishes)
Allan McRae (Allan)
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version 3.4.2
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

Summary and Info:

pacman-3.4.2-1 (also 3.4.1) strictly depends on libarchive-2.8.4-2.
libarchive-2.8.4-1 or prior will make pacman unable to handle xz files.

This leads to a system that can't be upgraded. Tested only in i686.

Steps to Reproduce:

1 - Install pacman-3.4.2-1, libarchive-2.8.4-1 and xz-5.0.0-1
2 - Try to install any package compressed with xz, it will give you a corrupt package warning and abort the install.


To solve it:
1 - Upgrade libarchive to version 2.8.4-2
2 - Install any package

This task depends upon

Closed by  Dan McGee (toofishes)
Saturday, 08 January 2011, 17:58 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't fix
Comment by Dan McGee (toofishes) - Saturday, 08 January 2011, 17:58 GMT
  • Field changed: Status (Unconfirmed → Assigned)
  • Field changed: Category (General → Packages: Core)
  • Field changed: Architecture (i686 → All)
  • Task assigned to Allan McRae (Allan), Dan McGee (toofishes)
We don't support out of date systems. And this has nothing to do with pacman, but the packaging of it only, so wrong project. Sorry for being blunt, but there is a reason libarchive was rebuilt to pkgrel -2.

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