Fwd: [Fedora-spins] Nightly composes using XZ spins

[Adam Williamson]

On Mon, 2011-01-24 at 07:03 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Might consider including LibreOffice or parts of it in the Live CD if
> feasible
> 
> Rahul
> 
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: 	[Fedora-spins] Nightly composes using XZ spins
> Date: 	Sun, 23 Jan 2011 18:18:11 -0600
> From: 	Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to>
> Reply-To: 	The Spin Special Interest Group mailing list
> <spins at lists.fedoraproject.org>
> To: 	spins at lists.fedoraproject.org
> 
> 
> 
> The nightly composes switched over to using XZ today. I am not sure if
> something else changed in rawhide last night, but the kde and desktop
> spins each dropped about 130 MB which is a lot better than I expected
> (which was mostly based on the effect I had seen on the games spin
> in tests).
> 
> If you see any problems that look like they might be related using XZ for
> the spins please file a bug against livecd-tools.

FWIW on this, a quick boot test on the latest nightly looks to work
fine, and I had a look at the 01/22 and 01/23 logs, they have the same
number of packages and there's no obvious huge breakage...so it looks
like we really did just gain 130MB of space for free, yay!
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