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Default to xz compression for tarballs #478

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rdmark opened this issue Sep 12, 2023 · 3 comments · Fixed by #482
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Default to xz compression for tarballs #478

rdmark opened this issue Sep 12, 2023 · 3 comments · Fixed by #482
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rdmark commented Sep 12, 2023

The OSS community has largely moved from gz to xz compression for tarballs.

We should change our automake targets to use xz. (make dist)
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dgsga commented Sep 13, 2023 •
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See dgsga-issue-478 for the easy fix to create an xz tarball (953KiB vs 1.7MiB).

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rdmark commented Sep 13, 2023

Look at the savings!

-rw-r--r--  1 dmark dmark 1.3M Sep 13 13:54 netatalk-3.1.99dev.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r--  1 dmark dmark 1.7M Sep 13 13:54 netatalk-3.1.99dev.tar.gz
-rw-r--r--  1 dmark dmark 957K Sep 13 13:53 netatalk-3.1.99dev.tar.xz

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rdmark commented Sep 13, 2023

For netatalk2

-rw-r--r--  1 dmark dmark  1.3M Sep 13 14:02 netatalk-2.2.11dev.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r--  1 dmark dmark  1.8M Sep 13 14:02 netatalk-2.2.11dev.tar.gz
-rw-r--r--  1 dmark dmark 1023K Sep 13 14:01 netatalk-2.2.11dev.tar.xz

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