FS#34655 - [libarchive] Add lrzip support in libarchive

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by John (graysky) - Sunday, 07 April 2013, 11:17 GMT
Last edited by Dave Reisner (falconindy) - Saturday, 05 January 2019, 15:58 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages: Core
Status Closed
Assigned To Dan McGee (toofishes)
Dave Reisner (falconindy)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 6
Private No

Details

I would love to see the ability of pacman to process foo.tar.lrz packages now that makepkg allows users to select this versatile format. To do this, lrzip (or at least the library it supplies) will need to be linked to libarchive.

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1255516#p1255516
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Closed by  Dave Reisner (falconindy)
Saturday, 05 January 2019, 15:58 GMT
Reason for closing:  Deferred
Additional comments about closing:  Can be revisited if someone wants to support lrzip in [core].
Comment by Dylon Edwards (deltaecho) - Wednesday, 02 March 2016, 03:48 GMT
In order to add support for lrzip, these two changes will need to be backported:
- https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/commit/21b21bc874f31b1379c2c4feb944970ce4459d5c#diff-c10bd7e5ea84aa40f90b834e7af0bd26
- https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/commit/d767d7904781794442938df6b0dd29c8da325e03#diff-1932c3969db747ad49818391ad55b7ce
Comment by Dylon Edwards (deltaecho) - Wednesday, 02 March 2016, 03:54 GMT
As well, "LIBS='-llrzip'" must be set before the configure task, to link against the library. E.g.

LIBS='-llrzip' ./configure --prefix=/usr --without-xml2
Comment by Dave Reisner (falconindy) - Wednesday, 02 March 2016, 14:03 GMT
Sorry, we won't be backporting features. I realize libarchive's release process has stalled, but that's not a problem for Arch to solve.
Comment by Dave Reisner (falconindy) - Saturday, 18 June 2016, 12:30 GMT
libarchive-3.2.0 is released, but lrzip is in [community]. Someone would need to be willing to support lrzip in [core] in order to preserve repo hierarchy rules.

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