Re: xz compression support
On Thu, 2012-05-17 at 15:14 +0300, Touko Korpela wrote: Binary packages built from linux-2.6 source are now xz compressed (or was that reverted)? What about kernel images (vmlinuz) and initramfs images? Is it enabled only for some architectures (arm)? It's enabled for all packages on all architectures. vmlinuz is still gzipped on most architectures, but we might change that. initramfs compression is controlled by the initramfs builder, i.e. initramfs-tools or dracut. Another issue is source package. Shouldn't it be xz compressed (upstream tarballs are available also in xz)? I expect it will be when we switch to 3.0 format. The upstream tarball compression is irrelevant since we have to repack for DFSG compliance. I for one always build the 'orig' tarball from git instead of the upstream tarball. P.s. Is xz-utils update coming soon, package has some bugs accumulated. No idea. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Every program is either trivial or else contains at least one bug signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
xz compression support
Binary packages built from linux-2.6 source are now xz compressed (or was that reverted)? What about kernel images (vmlinuz) and initramfs images? Is it enabled only for some architectures (arm)? Another issue is source package. Shouldn't it be xz compressed (upstream tarballs are available also in xz)? P.s. Is xz-utils update coming soon, package has some bugs accumulated. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120517121415.GA5219@lisko
Re: xz compression support
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 03:14:15PM +0300, Touko Korpela wrote: Another issue is source package. Shouldn't it be xz compressed (upstream tarballs are available also in xz)? Apparently this requires converting source package to new 3.0 format. It seems to have good and not-so-good properties with it. Seems solvable, debian-devel list has current topic about it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120517184657.GA30516@lisko
