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

Bruno Wolff III bruno at wolff.to
Mon Jan 24 14:07:56 UTC 2011


On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 23:32:56 -0800,
  Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> 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!

I did local local builds comparing the same set of packages for the
Desktop and saw the same size change as confirming that the space
was from using xz.

Presviously I had been doing my tests with sample games spins and while
the savings were better in absolute terms, it was significantly less
in relative terms.


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