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From: Michael Olbrich <m.olbrich@pengutronix.de>
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On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 01:12:30PM +0200, Bernhard Walle wrote:
> * Andreas Bie=DFmann <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 a=
nd
> 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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