Arnaud: > Dear Tails, > > this is just a detail I'd like to discuss. > > When I did my first Tails build a while ago, I didn't specify any > SquashFS compression setting. So I expected the compression to be the > default. And amazingly, there's a setting called 'defaultcomp', which > correspond to xz compression. So I was a bit surprised to see in the > logs that I ended up with gzip compression instead. > > What I'm trying to say is that, from the point of view of the person who > builds Tails, there's no 'default' compression. The compression is > automatically chosen by the build system: xz for release, gzip otherwise > (tell me if I'm mistaken). > > So I think it's a bit misleading to have a setting named 'defaultcomp', > and it would be better named 'xzcomp'. > > What do you think ? I can open an issue and provide a patch if you agree > with me.
Yeah, and it even used to be even worse, cause we hadn't unambiguously defined when a "release build" should occur before, but since the recent rework of the build system this is well-defined (build a release if and only if HEAD is tagged). Any way, a ticket and patches renaming them to `fastcomp` and `releasecomp` (or similar) would be welcome. This change will require some coordination with our infra's sysadmins, though, so it might take a while for it to be applied. Cheers! _______________________________________________ Tails-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.boum.org/listinfo/tails-dev To unsubscribe from this list, send an empty email to [email protected].
