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FS#72697 - [wireshark] Enable zstd support

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by Stefan Tatschner (rumpelsepp) - Wednesday, 10 November 2021, 15:19 GMT
Last edited by Jonas Witschel (diabonas) - Wednesday, 17 November 2021, 12:07 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Wireshark supports reading zstd compressed files. It seems to be disabled at compile time. Let's enable it. :)
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Closed by  Jonas Witschel (diabonas)
Wednesday, 17 November 2021, 12:07 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Additional comments about closing:  zstd support is already enabled in the Arch Linux package
Comment by Jonas Witschel (diabonas) - Wednesday, 17 November 2021, 11:46 GMT
It seems to be already enabled (https://reproducible.archlinux.org/api/v0/builds/171063/log):

-- Checking for one of the modules 'libzstd'
-- Found ZSTD: /usr/lib/libzstd.so (found suitable version "1.5.0", minimum required is "1.0.0")

What is the zstd-related error you are seeing, or which functionality would you expect to work, but doesn't?
Comment by Stefan Tatschner (rumpelsepp) - Wednesday, 17 November 2021, 11:51 GMT
Ah okay. I thought it would be then possible to open zstd compressed pcap files. It complains with The file "test.pcap.zst" isn't a capture file in a format Wireshark understands.

But I figure the zstd module in wireshark fits another use case then.
Comment by Jonas Witschel (diabonas) - Wednesday, 17 November 2021, 12:07 GMT
This feature seems to have been implemented upstream indeed, but has not made it into a stable release yet: https://github.com/wireshark/wireshark/commit/6fe68991df128960f5ea5c3615a90ef2a5ab22b7 For the latest stable release 3.4.9, zstd seems to be used only in the Kafka dissector.

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