From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from smtprelay01.ispgateway.de ([80.67.31.24]) by metis.ext.pengutronix.de with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SHYzw-0006sI-3f for ptxdist@pengutronix.de; Tue, 10 Apr 2012 13:12:33 +0200 Received: from [78.47.165.117] (helo=regiomontanus.bwalle.de) by smtprelay01.ispgateway.de with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1SHYzv-00059y-OZ for ptxdist@pengutronix.de; Tue, 10 Apr 2012 13:12:31 +0200 Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 13:12:30 +0200 From: Bernhard Walle Message-ID: <20120410111230.GA32528@regiomontanus.bwalle.de> References: <1333709729-67003-1-git-send-email-andreas@biessmann.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1333709729-67003-1-git-send-email-andreas@biessmann.de> Subject: Re: [ptxdist] [PATCH] rules/kernel: switch to xz compression Reply-To: ptxdist@pengutronix.de List-Id: PTXdist Development Mailing List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: ptxdist-bounces@pengutronix.de Errors-To: ptxdist-bounces@pengutronix.de To: ptxdist@pengutronix.de * Andreas Bie=DFmann [2012-04-06 12:55]: > kernel is provided since 2.6.0 with xz compression. The main aim to use xz > compression here is to save significant space for local mirrors. > = > linux-3.3.tar.bz2 is about 75 MiB > linux-3.3.tar.xz is about 63 MiB > -> saves about 15 % Which leads me to the question: Shouldn't we require xz in the configure script of ptxdist and drop host-xz? Currently host-xz is only selected when KERNEL_XZ is set (which means the kernel compression) but not when some package is compressed which xz. Currently that packages are the kernel, strace, networkmanager, systemd and libkmod. Regards, Bernhard -- = ptxdist mailing list ptxdist@pengutronix.de