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FS#64241 - UseDelta no longer recognised

Attached to Project: Pacman
Opened by Joshua Ward (s001911) - Thursday, 24 October 2019, 05:45 GMT
Last edited by Eli Schwartz (eschwartz) - Thursday, 24 October 2019, 05:58 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category General
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 5.2.0
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Summary and Info:

Pacman commands output the following error:

warning: config file /etc/pacman.conf, line 22: directive 'UseDelta' in section 'options' not recognized.

According to https://www.archlinux.org/pacman/pacman.conf.5.html the UseDelta option is still supported.

This did not happen prior to update

Pacman still runs

Steps to Reproduce:

Run pacman -Syu
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Closed by  Eli Schwartz (eschwartz)
Thursday, 24 October 2019, 05:58 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Additional comments about closing:  Everything is acting as expected, and the online documentation should soon be updated to reflect the version already on your machine.
Comment by Doug Newgard (Scimmia) - Thursday, 24 October 2019, 05:46 GMT
So the only bug here is that the man page on the site needs updated.
Comment by Eli Schwartz (eschwartz) - Thursday, 24 October 2019, 05:49 GMT
So that man page is not updated and still shows the version from 5.1.3, not 5.2: https://www.archlinux.org/pacman/#_releases

The pacman.conf man page installed on your system and available via 'man pacman.conf' will show that it is not supported. I'm curious to know how you think this could be *accidentally* removed...

https://git.archlinux.org/pacman.git/tree/NEWS?h=v5.2.0

It's the very first NEWS update for this version:

- completely remove delta support (CVE-2019-18183)

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