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

[Andrea Bolognani]

On Wed, 2016-06-15 at 11:50 -0400, Laine Stump wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Yeah, I used to do it that way, and at some point I switched to just 
> making the rpm and installing it. I don't even remember now why I did 
> that - it could have just been because I was testing on a different 
> machine from where I was building, or maybe I was rebooting a lot and 
> wanted my new libvirtd to be the one that came up at boot time. At the 
> time I switched, the penalty was small enough that it just became 
> automatic, but over the last year or so the build time (for make -j$LOTS 
> rpm) has slowly crept up to the point where it's now time to retrain my 
> muscle memory and use the in-tree libvirtd.
> 
> I suppose one downside of that is that make rpm failures won't be 
> noticed as quickly :-)

https://ci.centos.org/view/libvirt-project/job/libvirt-daemon-rpm/ :)

By the way, it's failing right now, but should start to pass
again with this patch. I've just pushed it.

-- 
Andrea Bolognani
Software Engineer - Virtualization Team