[Bug 1708719] Review Request: vector - on-host performance monitoring framework

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1708719

--- Comment #6 from Mark Goodwin  ---
(In reply to Andreas Gerstmayr from comment #5)
[...]
> We'd save a bit of space using a tar.bz2 archive (resulting size is 30MB),
> but I'm not sure if this is conform to Fedora packaging guidelines (I
> couldn't find
> any preferred/mandatory package format).

I just checked and xz is supported. xz -9 vector_deps-2.0.0-beta.1.tar
results in an 18MB file, which is much more tolerable!

And using this as Source1 seems to work without any additional build deps:

Source1:        vector_deps-%{vector_version}.tar.xz

more comments later ..

Cheers