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. ---

Changes from [v1]: * Update all references to .tar.gz, including spec files, scripts and documentation (thanks Dan) * Fix typo lenght -> length (thanks Ján) [v1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2016-June/msg00974.html .gitignore | 2 +- Makefile.am | 2 +- autobuild.sh | 2 +- configure.ac | 2 +- docs/compiling.html.in | 2 +- docs/downloads.html.in | 4 ++-- libvirt.spec.in | 2 +- mingw-libvirt.spec.in | 2 +- 8 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore index 7fd9963..39c0423 100644 --- a/.gitignore +++ b/.gitignore @@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ /gnulib/tests/* /include/libvirt/libvirt-common.h /libtool -/libvirt-*.tar.gz +/libvirt-*.tar.xz /libvirt-[0-9]* /libvirt*.pc /libvirt.spec diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am index da07e6c..4b4aad3 100644 --- a/Makefile.am +++ b/Makefile.am @@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ $(top_srcdir)/HACKING: $(top_srcdir)/docs/hacking1.xsl \ > $@-t && mv $@-t $@ ; fi; rpm: clean - @(unset CDPATH ; $(MAKE) dist && rpmbuild -ta $(distdir).tar.gz) + @(unset CDPATH ; $(MAKE) dist && rpmbuild -ta $(distdir).tar.xz) check-local: all tests diff --git a/autobuild.sh b/autobuild.sh index 4d9f616..2143479 100755 --- a/autobuild.sh +++ b/autobuild.sh @@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ exec 3>&- test "$st" = 0 test -x /usr/bin/lcov && make cov -rm -f *.tar.gz +rm -f *.tar.xz make dist if test -n "$AUTOBUILD_COUNTER" ; then diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac index 0114149..7d16e5a 100644 --- a/configure.ac +++ b/configure.ac @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ AH_BOTTOM([#include <config-post.h>]) AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4]) dnl Make automake keep quiet about wildcards & other GNUmake-isms; also keep dnl quiet about the fact that we intentionally cater to automake 1.9 -AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([-Wno-portability -Wno-obsolete tar-ustar subdir-objects]) +AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([-Wno-portability -Wno-obsolete tar-pax no-dist-gzip dist-xz subdir-objects]) dnl older automake's default of ARFLAGS=cru is noisy on newer binutils; dnl we don't really need the 'u' even in older toolchains. Then there is dnl older libtool, which spelled it AR_FLAGS diff --git a/docs/compiling.html.in b/docs/compiling.html.in index aff5487..d2a3f15 100644 --- a/docs/compiling.html.in +++ b/docs/compiling.html.in @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ </p> <pre> - $ gunzip -c libvirt-x.x.x.tar.gz | tar xvf - + $ xz -c libvirt-x.x.x.tar.xz | tar xvf - $ cd libvirt-x.x.x $ ./configure</pre> diff --git a/docs/downloads.html.in b/docs/downloads.html.in index f213b29..1a3400a 100644 --- a/docs/downloads.html.in +++ b/docs/downloads.html.in @@ -28,8 +28,8 @@ </p> <ul> - <li><a href="ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt/libvirt-git-snapshot.tar.gz">... FTP server</a></li> - <li><a href="http://libvirt.org/sources/libvirt-git-snapshot.tar.gz"&g... HTTP server</a></li> + <li><a href="ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt/libvirt-git-snapshot.tar.xz">... FTP server</a></li> + <li><a href="http://libvirt.org/sources/libvirt-git-snapshot.tar.xz"&g... HTTP server</a></li> </ul> <h2><a name="schedule">Primary release schedule</a></h2> diff --git a/libvirt.spec.in b/libvirt.spec.in index ee6162e..6b3e888 100644 --- a/libvirt.spec.in +++ b/libvirt.spec.in @@ -225,7 +225,7 @@ URL: http://libvirt.org/ %if %(echo %{version} | grep -o \\. | wc -l) == 3 %define mainturl stable_updates/ %endif -Source: http://libvirt.org/sources/%{?mainturl}libvirt-%{version}.tar.gz +Source: http://libvirt.org/sources/%{?mainturl}libvirt-%{version}.tar.xz Requires: libvirt-daemon = %{version}-%{release} Requires: libvirt-daemon-config-network = %{version}-%{release} diff --git a/mingw-libvirt.spec.in b/mingw-libvirt.spec.in index 6f95832..e808839 100644 --- a/mingw-libvirt.spec.in +++ b/mingw-libvirt.spec.in @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ Summary: MinGW Windows libvirt virtualization library License: LGPLv2+ Group: Development/Libraries URL: http://libvirt.org/ -Source0: ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt/libvirt-%{version}.tar.gz +Source0: ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt/libvirt-%{version}.tar.xz BuildRequires: mingw32-filesystem >= 95 BuildRequires: mingw64-filesystem >= 95

diff --git a/docs/downloads.html.in b/docs/downloads.html.in index f213b29..1a3400a 100644 --- a/docs/downloads.html.in +++ b/docs/downloads.html.in @@ -28,8 +28,8 @@       </p>          <ul> -      <li><a href="ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt/libvirt-git-snapshot.tar.gz">... FTP server</a></li> -      <li><a href="http://libvirt.org/sources/libvirt-git-snapshot.tar.gz"&g... HTTP server</a></li> +      <li><a href="ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt/libvirt-git-snapshot.tar.xz">... FTP server</a></li> +      <li><a href="http://libvirt.org/sources/libvirt-git-snapshot.tar.xz"&g... HTTP server</a></li>       </ul>

> > diff --git a/docs/downloads.html.in b/docs/downloads.html.in > > index f213b29..1a3400a 100644 > > --- a/docs/downloads.html.in > > +++ b/docs/downloads.html.in > > @@ -28,8 +28,8 @@ > >       </p> > >    > >       <ul> > > -      <li><a href="ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt/libvirt-git-snapshot.tar.gz">... FTP server</a></li> > > -      <li><a href="http://libvirt.org/sources/libvirt-git-snapshot.tar.gz"&g... HTTP server</a></li> > > +      <li><a href="ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt/libvirt-git-snapshot.tar.xz">... FTP server</a></li> > > +      <li><a href="http://libvirt.org/sources/libvirt-git-snapshot.tar.xz"&g... HTTP server</a></li> > >       </ul> > > It doesn't seem like the hourly snapshots are being generated > properly after the switch to xz compression. I guess some > server-side script will need to be tweaked. It is done by a crontab in DV's account on libvirt.org. Since I have sudo, I took the liberty to tweak the script to look for tar.xz instead of tar.gz So should be back to normal in an hour or so