[arch-dev-public] [PATCH 2/2] Accept any *.pkg.tar.* package file name
Pierre Schmitz
pierre at archlinux.de
Sun Feb 21 10:15:48 EST 2010
Am Sonntag, 21. Februar 2010 15:57:38 schrieb Pierre Schmitz:
> > >> pacman, libarchive and xz-utils) and add PKGEXT='.pkg.tar.gz' into
> > >>their PKGBUILDs
> >
> > The use of --as-needed means we do not need all these. So the list is
> > somewhere between this and the one Pierre gave... has anyone got a
> > really old system we can test this upgrade on? I suppose an old
> > installer is enough.
>
> I'll check that.
I booted a 2009.02 iso which doesn't know about xz and run -Syu. It'll update
xz-utils, libarchive, libfetch and pacman. So we should be fine with keeping
those in gz archives for a while.
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Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre
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