On Fri, 30 Oct 2015 23:02:57 +0800
Kevin Zhao <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Jorge,
>      Really thanks for your suggestion😁
>      I see in the spec that the filesystem type is squashFS. And I
> want to compress the Gentoo  stage3 of ppc64le  to the squashfs
> filesystem ,so that I can control the image size. Do you have any
> tips for me ? Thanks very much!
> 
> 2015-10-28 20:05 GMT+08:00 Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto <
> [email protected]>:
> 
> > On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 5:26 AM, Kevin Zhao
> > <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > Hi  Mike && Hi Folks,
> >
> > Hi Kevin.
> >
> > >       First I want to thanks for your help and advices , we have
> > > finish
> > make
> > > gentoo stage3 and it will be tests by our community.
> > >       Now I  am working for  gentoo LiveCD using stage3 .   After
> > searching
> > > gentoo website, I can not find a very clearly method to make
> > > gentoo
> > LiveCD .
> > >       So ,if conveniently , could you give me some advices or some
> > websites
> > > which cover the methods to LiveCD of other arch(e.g : x86 ,amd64
> > > etc..) Thanks very much ~   :-)
> >
> > You can find in the releng repo the specs we use to build all the
> > stages and CDs for all the arches[1]. In particular you might want
> > to use something like the install-cd specs for amd64[2][3] as
> > examples. We also have some scripts in the repo we use for the
> > automated builds in some arches[4].
> > Feel free to poke us through e-mail or pop into #gentoo-releng in
> > the freenode network.
> >
> >  [1] - https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/releng.git/
> >  [2] -
> > https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/releng.git/tree/releases/weekly/specs/amd64/installcd-stage1.spec
> >  [3] -
> > https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/releng.git/tree/releases/weekly/specs/amd64/installcd-stage2-minimal.spec
> >  [4] - https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/releng.git/tree/tools
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto
> > Gentoo developer
> > RelEng Lead
> >
> >

Use catalyst-9999 which has the new compress/decompress handling code.
then in your spec file:

compress_mode = squashfs

That's it

-- 
Brian Dolbec <dolsen>


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