From ab5ea82dc0f52a4aad8ea9b99cc82545be525ae0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Phil Pennock Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2017 15:38:14 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] RELEASE EXPERIMENT: more compression, .xz variant Making this change natively in the release branch, not master branch, as an experiment for the 4.89 release: make the .xz tarball variant too, and work harder on compressing our files for distribution. --- release-process/scripts/mk_exim_release | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) diff --git a/release-process/scripts/mk_exim_release b/release-process/scripts/mk_exim_release index f6cd33c7e..95f9f9050 100755 --- a/release-process/scripts/mk_exim_release +++ b/release-process/scripts/mk_exim_release @@ -375,6 +375,10 @@ sub create_tar_files { print "Creating: ${pkgs}/${dirname}.tar.lz\n" if ($verbose || $debug); system("$tar cf ${pkgs}/${dirname}.tar.lz --lzip -C ${pkgdirs} ${dirname}") } + if ($context->{compressors}{xz}) { + print "Creating: ${pkgs}/${dirname}.tar.xz\n" if ($verbose || $debug); + system("$tar cf ${pkgs}/${dirname}.tar.xz --xz -C ${pkgdirs} ${dirname}") + } } } @@ -394,6 +398,7 @@ MAIN: { compressors => { gzip => 1, bzip2 => 1, + xz => 1, lzip => 0, }, build_docs => 1, @@ -402,6 +407,13 @@ MAIN: { my $delete; my $cleanup = 1; ##$ENV{'PATH'} = '/opt/local/bin:' . $ENV{'PATH'}; + # We are creating files for mass distribution, so work harder to make smaller files. + $ENV{'GZIP'} = '-9'; + $ENV{'BZIP2'} = '-9'; + # xz documents minimum file sizes for levels higher than -6 to be useful and each + # requires more RAM on the decompressing system. Exim tarball currently 24MiB so + # using -8. + $ENV{'XZ_DEFAULTS'} = '-8'; GetOptions( 'directory=s' => \$context->{directory}, -- 2.30.2