Squid packages

noons · 2010-04-09 13:11:53

Been testing out archlinux and it being a rolling release everything is pretty much up to date. I notice however that squid is behind in the 2.7.x versions (2.7.8 isnt even in testing or 2.7.9). Is there a technical issue causing the delay? I know 2.7.8 has some issues with openssl on some distros so is that the reason for the hold? The other question I have is about the 3.x releases which are nowhere to be found. 3.0 doesnt appear to ever be added and 3.1 hasnt either. Just curious. Thanks!

zenlord · 2010-04-12 08:31:59

I guess there is no TU (trusted user) or dev interested in maintaining this package (anymore).

Lately there have been a few questions from users about server-related software and the responses are very few, which lead me to believe that not many archers are using archlinux for their servers (well, I'm using it for my homeserver, but I didn't install squid, funambol, kerberos etc. (yet)).

tomk · 2010-04-12 09:37:43

squid 2.7.STABLE7 is one of two versions recommended for production use at squid-cache.org, and that is the version currently available in the extra repo. If you believe Arch should provide the 3.1.1 version instead, I'd suggest you drop an email to the maintainer - that upstream recommendation means that the out-of-date flag is not completely appropriate in this case.

noons · 2010-04-12 12:31:56

tomk wrote:

squid 2.7.STABLE7 is one of two versions recommended for production use at squid-cache.org, and that is the version currently available in the extra repo. If you believe Arch should provide the 3.1.1 version instead, I'd suggest you drop an email to the maintainer - that upstream recommendation means that the out-of-date flag is not completely appropriate in this case.

Just noticed that, which might be the reason why. Interesting since when you click that version they have up to 2.7.9 which is quoted as being stable. As far as 3.1 replacing 2x usually most distro's offer both. Im not really in need of the newest version it was just more of a question since usually arch has the latest and greatest packages. The squid package was also updated not even a week ago which is why I kind of thought there might be problems with the latest version.

Last edited by noons (2010-04-12 12:42:45)

tomk · 2010-04-12 14:32:59

OK - I see what you mean now. I didn't go any further than the page I linked to.

In that case, it would be appropriate to flag it out-of-date - in fact, someone already has. What a coincidence!

BTW, last week's squid update was a rebuild only, against the new openssl libraries.

nous · 2010-09-04 08:41:28

I adapted the extra/squid pkgbuild and uploaded squid3 package to AUR.

Last edited by nous (2010-09-04 08:41:50)

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