[PATCH xorg-gtest 01/11] Drop .gz tarballs, bz2 is enough

Peter Hutterer peter.hutterer at who-t.net
Thu Nov 8 19:22:39 PST 2012


On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 01:44:16PM +1100, Daniel Stone wrote:
> On 30 October 2012 12:38, Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer at who-t.net> wrote:
> 
> > --- a/configure.ac
> > +++ b/configure.ac
> > @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([Makefile.am])
> >  AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4])
> >
> >  # Initialize Automake
> > -AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([foreign dist-bzip2])
> > +AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([foreign dist-bzip2 no-dist-gzip])
> 
> 
> How about enabling .xz too?

I disabled .gz because IMO one tarball is enough, we don't need two if one
is likely never used anyway. A similar situation would apply to xz, we'd
have two tarballs but no real need. And the space savings aren't that huge
that it switching from bz2 to xz alone really makes a difference.

365522 xorg-gtest-0.6.0.tar.bz2
308152 xorg-gtest-0.6.0.tar.xz

Cheers,
   Peter


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