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FS#77138 - [repo-add] Add ".tar.zst" to list of valid archive extensions in man page

Attached to Project: Pacman
Opened by Paul Clark (pdc) - Sunday, 15 January 2023, 12:56 GMT
Last edited by Allan McRae (Allan) - Sunday, 15 January 2023, 13:10 GMT
Task Type General Gripe
Category Documentation
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Very Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 6.0.2
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

According to the repo-add man page:

A package database is a tar file, optionally compressed. Valid
extensions are “.db” followed by an archive extension of “.tar”,
“.tar.gz”, “.tar.bz2”, “.tar.xz”, or “.tar.Z”.

However, repo-add also recognises the extension ".tar.zst", using get_compression_command in
/usr/share/makepkg/util/compress.sh. pacman can also handle databases compressed with zstd.
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Closed by  Allan McRae (Allan)
Sunday, 15 January 2023, 13:10 GMT
Reason for closing:  None
Additional comments about closing:  Historical bug tracker for the Pacman package manager.

The pacman bug tracker has moved to gitlab:
https://gitlab.archlinux.org/pacman/pacm an/-/issues

This tracker remains open for interaction with historical bugs during the transition period. Any new bugs reports will be closed without further action.

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