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diff --git a/doc/overview/pbins.html.part b/doc/overview/pbins.html.part index af548174d..66b19fb47 100644 --- a/doc/overview/pbins.html.part +++ b/doc/overview/pbins.html.part @@ -38,23 +38,8 @@ in binaries only being used when necessary or explicitly requested.</p> <h2>Notes on <code>libarchive</code></h2> -<p>We use <a href="http://code.google.com/p/libarchive/">libarchive</a> to create binary packages. At the time of -writing (libarchive 2.8.4), this is causing a number of issues (but not as many as using anything else would do...). In -particular:</p> - -<ul> - <li>It is strongly recommended that <strong>libarchive be built without support for extended attributes - (xattrs)</strong>. Some users have found that binary packages cannot be created when extended attribute support - is enabled (error messages like <code>archive_read_disk_entry_from_file failed</code>).</li> - - <li>Current releases of libarchive do not support GNU's tar extensions (although svn master does). However, without - extensions, tar is effectively useless. Thus, if the version of libarchive installed when Paludis is built does not - have GNU tar support, we use POSIX pax format when creating tarballs, and we use the <code>.pax</code> extension - rather than <code>.tar</code> to make this clear. Unfortunately, <strong>GNU tar doesn't particularly like PAX - tarballs</strong>, and will moan like crazy and not properly extract files built this way. Thus, if you intend - to extract pbin tarballs by hand (e.g. to rescue a completely broken system), you must either use OpenBSD's - <code>pax</code> to do the extracting, or use a libarchive release that does not yet exist.</li> -</ul> +<p>We use <a href="http://code.google.com/p/libarchive/">libarchive</a> to create binary packages, and require version +3.0.4 or greater.</p> <h2>Creating Binary Repositories</h2> |