xz-compressed kernel modules

[Josh Boyer]

On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 3:43 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Rawhide has xz-compressed kernel modules.  I think this is a good
> thing as it saves a lot of disk space in VMs.
>
> It did however necessitate a change in supermin (used by libguestfs).
> Upstream already supported xz-compressed modules -- the patch was
> contributed by Arch Linux which has been using them for a long time.
> However it was not turned on in Fedora because it needs a statically
> linked liblzma (we're building a tiny, static init to bootstrap a VM).

My apologies.  I was unaware of supermin when I enabled it.

> So I've taken co-maint of xz and added the xz-static subpackage.
> [Discussion: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=547011 ]
>
> I've added this to Rawhide.

Thanks for jumping on this so quickly.

> It's waiting in updates-testing for F20, and could do with some
> testing and karma:
> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2014-6534/xz-5.1.2-9alpha.fc20,supermin-5.1.8-5.fc20
>
> I've not done anything for F19.  Please let me know if xz-compressed
> modules will be turned on there.

We won't be enabling the compression for the stable releases.  This is
an F21 and future change only.

josh