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dreieck

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Registered: 2012-10-08

Posts: 56

Warning of AUR-package "xz-static-git": It breaks the system fundament

Here I want to issue a big fat warning for the AUR-package "xz-static-git".

I have also submitted this as a comment in the package's comment section:

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WARNING: Installing the package "xz-static-git" is DANGEROUS!!

• It says that it provides `xz`; it also onflicts with `xz`. So when you install `xz-static-git`, `pacman` happily offers to replace `xz` by `xz-static-git`.

• However, `xz-static-git` does _not_ provide the shared libraries provided by `xz`, thus essentially breaking any further package install: 
  A call to `pacman -S <something>` just fails with

  pacman: error while loading shared libraries: liblzma.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

So, this package must not list `xz` in the `provides`-array!

Please fix this as soon as possible.

Thanks for maintaining!

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There is also no other `liblzma.so*` in `/usr/lib` which could be used for an emergency-symlink to switch back to `xz`.

To be able to get `xz` back I also could no just rebuild it as a dynamic library, because already the build process needs some commands which depend on `liblzma.so*` which is not present. I also could not download and manually exrtat Arch Linux or .deb-pakages, sine all the extraction tools need `liblzma.so.5`. Thanksfully, I could use OpenSuse RPM, since it is not compressed with `xz` and the graphial tool `xarchiver` could still fire up despite the lacking `liblzma.so.5` (`ark`, `tar` etc. failed).

Slithery

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From: Norfolk, UK

Registered: 2013-12-01

Posts: 5,776

Re: Warning of AUR-package "xz-static-git": It breaks the system fundament

Fire off an email to the mailing list...
aur-requests@lists.archlinux.org

That's usually the preferred method to make sure it gets seen by a TU quickly, there's no guarantee that one of them will be on the forums at the moment.

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No, it didn't "fix" anything. It just shifted the brokeness one space to the right. - jasonwryan
Closing -- for deletion; Banning -- for muppetry. - jasonwryan

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dreieck

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Registered: 2012-10-08

Posts: 56

Re: Warning of AUR-package "xz-static-git": It breaks the system fundament

Fire off an email to the mailing list...
aur-requests@lists.archlinux.org

Done.

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 11,544

Re: Warning of AUR-package "xz-static-git": It breaks the system fundament

This sometimes happens with development packages. I would say it's expected. If you replace low-level libraries, you'd better know what you're doing.

progandy

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Registered: 2012-05-17

Posts: 5,190

Re: Warning of AUR-package "xz-static-git": It breaks the system fundament

To be able to get `xz` back I also could no just rebuild it as a dynamic library, because already the build process needs some commands which depend on `liblzma.so*` which is not present. I also could not download and manually exrtat Arch Linux or .deb-pakages, sine all the extraction tools need `liblzma.so.5`. Thanksfully, I could use OpenSuse RPM, since it is not compressed with `xz` and the graphial tool `xarchiver` could still fire up despite the lacking `liblzma.so.5` (`ark`, `tar` etc. failed).

That is one of the reasons pacman-static exists: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pacman-static
There are uncompressed and xz-compressed downloads available as well.

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