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FS#46630 - pacman doesn't deal with .tar.xz files.

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by poppy (poppy) - Friday, 09 October 2015, 19:35 GMT
Last edited by Doug Newgard (Scimmia) - Friday, 09 October 2015, 23:05 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages: Core
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description: pacman doesn't deal with .tar.xz files.

Additional info:
* package version(s) : pacman 4.2.1-4
* config and/or log files etc.
$ sudo pacman -Sc
Packages to keep:
All locally installed packages

Cache directory: /var/cache/pacman/pkg/
:: Do you want to remove all other packages from cache? [Y/n] y
removing old packages from cache...
error: could not open file /var/cache/pacman/pkg/chromium-44.0.2403.107-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz: Unrecognized archive format

Database directory: /var/lib/pacman/
:: Do you want to remove unused repositories? [Y/n] y
removing unused sync repositories...

Steps to reproduce:
Install chromium. Uninstall chromium.
Type "sudo pacman -Sc".
pacman doesn't delete chromium, because it is a .tar.xz file.
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Closed by  Doug Newgard (Scimmia)
Friday, 09 October 2015, 23:05 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Additional comments about closing:  A corrupt file on your system is not a bug.
Comment by Dave Reisner (falconindy) - Friday, 09 October 2015, 20:01 GMT
pacman links to libarchive which understands XZ and tar. *all* packages in the official repos are compressed this way, so it must be something special about this specific tarball which it has a problem with.

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