* Andreas Bießmann <[email protected]> [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

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