Re: [PATCH 0/3] scripts/make-release: Decrease the size of the release tarballs

2022-07-04 Thread Daniel P . Berrangé
On Mon, Jul 04, 2022 at 08:42:51AM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote: > Our release tarballs are huge - qemu-7.0.0.tar.xz has a size of 119 MiB. > If you look at the contents, more than half of the size is used for the > edk2 sources that we ship along to provide the sources for the firmware > binaries,

Re: [PATCH 0/3] scripts/make-release: Decrease the size of the release tarballs

2022-07-04 Thread Stefan Hajnoczi
Thanks for doing this! I haven't reviewed the licensing impact. Acked-by: Stefan Hajnoczi

[PATCH 0/3] scripts/make-release: Decrease the size of the release tarballs

2022-07-04 Thread Thomas Huth
Our release tarballs are huge - qemu-7.0.0.tar.xz has a size of 119 MiB. If you look at the contents, more than half of the size is used for the edk2 sources that we ship along to provide the sources for the firmware binaries, too. This feels very wrong, why do we urge users to download such huge