[libvirt] [PATCH v2] maint: Switch to xz compressed PAX release archives

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 10:31:16AM -0400, Laine Stump wrote:
> On 06/15/2016 09:03 AM, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> > This allows us to produce releases that are roughly a third in
> > size, have no limitation on path length, and are still readable
> > by all supported platforms.
> > ---
> 
> I just want to point out that the tarfile is built every time you run "make
> rpm" (which I do quite a lot - I prefer installing rpms to the carnage
> created by make install), and this increases the time for make rpm on my
> system by 1min38sec. (jtomko may have something to say about that, since
> he's been interested in shaving fractions of a second off the build time in
> the last few days :-O)
> 
> Am I going to need to carry a local patch to revert this so that I don't get
> *even more* bored waiting for builds to complete? Or is there a reasonable
> way to make it easily configurable with a switch to autogen? (even then I
> would still need a patch to the specfile, unless we could make it happen
> based on some environment setting).

You really shouldn't waste your time doing make rpm all the time IMHO.

  ./autogen.sh --system
  make -j 12
  sudo systemctl stop libvirtd.service
  sudo ./daemon/libvirtd

will "just work(tm)" - its how I've done all libvirt development for
years.


Regards,
Daniel
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