> >> We might also want to write a little announcement to inform users about > >> this > >> change. While most of them wont be affected, some would have to adjust > >> their > >> custom scripts. And for those who use netinstall on a 2009.02 or older iso > >> would have to run pacman -Syu once to get a version of libarchive which is > >> able to deal with xz. > > > > > > If we do this, we should leave pacman and libarchive in a historic > > format for quite a while (or forever). Those packages are already small > > enough it doesn't really matter. > > I was going to respond to this thread and say we should keep a small > subset of packages in tar.gz format for things like this. Most of them > happen to be mine, but: > * pacman > * libarchive > * libfetch > * zlib ? > * glibc ? > * bash ?
+1. At some point pacman is going to need a glibc update to work and not being able to install glibc because it's a xz is an issue. We should probably add a versioned glibc to pacman's depends so someone doesn't end up upgrading pacman and not being able to run it because glibc didn't get updated as well. Dale
