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Re: [patch] build xz (instead of bz2) compressed tarballs and diffs
- From: Matthias Klose <doko at ubuntu dot com>
- To: Richard Biener <richard dot guenther at gmail dot com>
- Cc: GCC Patches <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Tue, 23 May 2017 16:22:42 -0700
- Subject: Re: [patch] build xz (instead of bz2) compressed tarballs and diffs
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On 18.05.2017 03:34, Richard Biener wrote:
> On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 3:11 AM, Matthias Klose <doko@ubuntu.com> wrote:
>> As discussed on IRC with Jakub and Richard here are is a small patch which
>> builds xz compressed tarballs and diff files.
>>
>> Tested with
>>
>> maintainer-scripts/gcc_release \
>> -s snap:trunk -p <old bz2 tarball> diffs sources tarfiles
>> maintainer-scripts/gcc_release \
>> -s snap:trunk -p <old xz tarball> diffs sources tarfiles
>>
>> and checked that the new tarball and diff files are compressed using xz.
>>
>> Ok for the trunk and the gcc-7-branch?
>
> Ok. The version on trunk can get the bz2 old-tar support removed after the next
> snapshot generation I think. Likewise the branch version after 7.2
> was released.
Looks like the copy of the script on gcc.gnu.org affects all active branches.
the May 23 GCC 5 snapshot was created successfully. Is this acceptable? If yes,
then the patch should probably go to the 5 and 6 branches as well.
Please copy the script again to enable the xz --best compression.
Matthias