On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 01:12:30PM +0200, Bernhard Walle wrote: > * 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.
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 -- Pengutronix e.K. | | Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | Peiner Str. 6-8, 31137 Hildesheim, Germany | Phone: +49-5121-206917-0 | Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 | Fax: +49-5121-206917-5555 | -- ptxdist mailing list [email protected]
