[Fedora-livecd-list] Making xz compression the default patch

[Brian C. Lane]

On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 01:15:00PM -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 08:59:40 -0800,
>   "Brian C. Lane" <bcl at redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 09:31:13PM -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> > > The patch is pretty simple, but I'm also looking for feedback on the change
> > > itself. The downside to having it the default (for F15+), is that
> > > occassionally someone might get burnt using xz compression while building
> > > an iso for an older version of Fedora. I think the upside of using xz is
> > > enough that we really should make it the default. (130 MB savings for the
> > > Desktop spin.) But I wanted to run this by other people before making that
> > > change. Note that Fedora can use xz for its spins (and is already doing
> > > so for the nightly composes) without making xz the default compression.
> > 
> > This looks good to me. If the user is making an image for an older
> > version they just need to select the correct compression. 
> 
> I pushed the commit.
> 
> I am interested in getting these into rawhide and would like to do an 15.4
> build soon. The only commits since 15.3 so far are the two related to
> xz compression. Is there any issue with doing the new build? Is there anything
> else pending that would be good to get in?

There's a couple new bugs related to the single initrd.img for rawhide
that I'm going to work on today, so plan on a build this evening or
tomorrow.

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Brian C. Lane | Anaconda Team | IRC: bcl #anaconda | Port Orchard, WA (PST8PDT)
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