From: Michael Olbrich <m.olbrich@pengutronix.de>
To: ptxdist@pengutronix.de
Subject: Re: [ptxdist] [PATCH] rules/kernel: switch to xz compression
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 20:48:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120411184807.GL32294@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120410111230.GA32528@regiomontanus.bwalle.de>
On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 01:12:30PM +0200, Bernhard Walle wrote:
> * Andreas Bießmann <andreas@biessmann.de> [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.
I suppose so. I didn't do it at first because no essential packages used it
and I didn't want to force it on everyone, but now with the kernel using xz
this changes.
Michael
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-06 10:55 Andreas Bießmann
2012-04-08 8:45 ` Michael Olbrich
2012-04-08 12:51 ` Andreas Bießmann
2012-04-11 18:49 ` Michael Olbrich
2012-04-10 11:12 ` Bernhard Walle
2012-04-11 18:48 ` Michael Olbrich [this message]
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