pacman: update to 7.1.0, fix deadlock with curl 8.20+. - #62357
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curl 8.20+ introduced a deadlock in pacman when using curl after calling fork. This was ultimately determined to be the result of improper usage of the library: curl/curl#21466 A patch was submitted to pacman, but it has not been merged: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/pacman/pacman/-/merge_requests/360 https://gitlab.archlinux.org/pacman/pacman/-/merge_requests/361 Arch Linux patches it downstream (along with most other distros): https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/pacman/-/commit/387ebf06060fd5f4ccd2b5281789b11d30c09358
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curl 8.20+ introduced a deadlock in pacman when using curl after calling fork.
This was ultimately determined to be the result of improper usage of the library: curl/curl#21466
A patch was submitted to pacman, but it has not been merged:
https://gitlab.archlinux.org/pacman/pacman/-/merge_requests/360
https://gitlab.archlinux.org/pacman/pacman/-/merge_requests/361
Arch Linux patches it downstream (along with most other distros): https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/pacman/-/commit/387ebf06060fd5f4ccd2b5281789b11d30c09358
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