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vorojan

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[SOLVED] tar.zst unecognized archive format

I encountered the problem of unecognized archives during installation archlinux-2018.05.01-i686.

After

# pacstrap base base-devel

I have a trouble with some unrecognized tar.zst archives.

I try to install zstd, but it has dependencies packed in tar.zst. And libarchive too...

Some kind of vicious circle turns out...

How can this be solved?

Last edited by vorojan (2020-01-12 13:24:16)

levi

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Re: [SOLVED] tar.zst unecognized archive format

Yes, I think the upstream project has switched to zstd archives over the older xz ones.  It seems this also has happened for the latest packages on our repos, and I'm not sure this is intentional.

But still in any cases, I'm surprised you didn't try with a newer archiso rather than use one that's getting for two years old at this juncture.  I'm not sure it will actually help here yet, but it's still best practice.

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abaumann

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Re: [SOLVED] tar.zst unecognized archive format

https://www.archlinux.org/news/now-usin … mpression/
https://www.archlinux.org/news/required … ibarchive/

You have to use a ISO having a recent enough version of libarchive 3.3.3-1. I wouldn't try
to update an ISO live environment.

vorojan

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Re: [SOLVED] tar.zst unecognized archive format

Ok, I try to use the newest ISO for this moment: archlinux-2020.01.08-i686
and I have troubles with signatures after

# pacstrap base base-devel

like this:

abaumann

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Re: [SOLVED] tar.zst unecognized archive format

Maybe some keys are stale on the ISO, try 'pacman-key --refresh' on the 'archiso' prompt.

vorojan

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Re: [SOLVED] tar.zst unecognized archive format

The result of refreshing:

But it don't solve my phoblem

levi

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Re: [SOLVED] tar.zst unecognized archive format

That looks like it's done what is intended.  Does pacstap not work now?  Does it fail with a unrecognised archive format, or a bad PGP key?

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abaumann

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Re: [SOLVED] tar.zst unecognized archive format

So, then the keyring on the new ISO is maybe the problem?

vorojan

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Re: [SOLVED] tar.zst unecognized archive format

Does it fail with a unrecognised archive format, or a bad PGP key?

pacstrap haven't work because of bad PGP key

So, then the keyring on the new ISO is maybe the problem?

I don't know exactly now, i used archlinux-2019.12.02-i686 and the problem went away. Later, I found that the device was set to the wrong time. Perhaps the problem was this.

Last edited by vorojan (2020-01-12 13:23:27)

abaumann

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Re: [SOLVED] tar.zst unecognized archive format

mmh. time. yes. plays badly when checking for certificates. good catch. :-)
so a ntpdate <server> would be the thing to do (or set the CMOS time and date correctly).

vorojan

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Re: [SOLVED] tar.zst unecognized archive format

ntpdate <server>

Thanks a lot for this advice becuse I set time manually.