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| author | Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com> | 2020-03-26 13:48:20 -0400 |
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| committer | Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com> | 2020-03-26 15:00:18 -0400 |
| commit | 6ae21361ab8b9ba0b18d55d595d9b20dedfcb132 (patch) | |
| tree | 63908c2fb5354773eb1936c44d0b447d47cf6b64 /doc | |
| parent | 12305ff528ad9365b4d4e5ebcd307373cdd5bf83 (diff) | |
| download | elfutils-6ae21361ab8b9ba0b18d55d595d9b20dedfcb132.tar.gz | |
debuginfod: document and workaround fedora31 zstd compression
Old enough (even RHEL8 era) rpm/libarchive tools cannot grok fedora31
zstd-compressed rpms. Disable those tests if necessary. Document -Z
based workaround for these debuginfod users.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Switch_RPMs_to_zstd_compression
Signed-off-by: Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com>
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/ChangeLog | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/debuginfod.8 | 5 |
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/ChangeLog b/doc/ChangeLog index 564644f4..cfb03b38 100644 --- a/doc/ChangeLog +++ b/doc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2020-03-26 Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com> + + * debuginfod.8 (-R): Note zstd compression complications + and workaround. + 2020-03-24 Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com> * debuginfod-find.1, debuginfod_find_debuginfo.3: Document diff --git a/doc/debuginfod.8 b/doc/debuginfod.8 index 64795c24..d8fbbea0 100644 --- a/doc/debuginfod.8 +++ b/doc/debuginfod.8 @@ -100,7 +100,10 @@ additional patterns. This option may be repeated. .B "\-R" Activate RPM patterns in archive scanning. The default is off. Equivalent to \fB\%\-Z\~.rpm=cat\fP, since libarchive can natively -process RPM archives. +process RPM archives. If your version of libarchive is much older +than 2020, be aware that some distributions have switched to an +incompatible zstd compression for their payload. You may experiment +with \fB\%\-Z\ .rpm='(rpm2cpio|zstdcat)<'\fP instead of \fB\-R\fP. .TP .B "\-U" |