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charset="utf-8" Other projects have long switched to xz and/or lzip. In the mktarball script, don't rely on the tar used supporting the -J (xz) or --lzip (lzip) options. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich --- Question (to the release technicians) is whether this would be adding undue overhead, primarily as a result of anything done outside of the build system. It's unclear to me why we have git create a tarball, extract that, just to then make a tarball again (without any special options, like to override owner or timestamps; in this context I notice that tarballs created by Andrew have file ownership of andrew/andrew, while ones made by Julien use root/root). Without passing -9, I observe lzip to compress worse than xz; the win of passing -9 to xz isn't overly big anyway (about 100k, compared to about 250k with lzip). lzip, unlike the other two tools, doesn't really show a progress indicator with -v. Merely having final statistics may make the use of the option here questionable. --- a/docs/process/release-technician-checklist.txt +++ b/docs/process/release-technician-checklist.txt @@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ RELEASE TARBALL make src-tarball # uses git-describe (best for RCs) # ^find some way to add git-cache-proxy to this (done in ~iwj/.git= config) mkdir /volatile/iwj/website-thing/xen.org/oss-xen/release/$v - mv dist/xen-$v.tar.gz /volatile/iwj/website-thing/xen.org/oss-xen/r= elease/$v/. + mv dist/xen-$v.tar.[glx]z /volatile/iwj/website-thing/xen.org/oss-x= en/release/$v/. =20 # website-thing/xen.org is cvs -d mail.xenproject.org:/home/downloa= ds-cvs/cvs-repos co xen.org cd /volatile/iwj/website-thing/xen.org @@ -139,9 +139,12 @@ RELEASE TARBALL cvs add -kb oss-xen/release/$v/ =20 cd oss-xen/release/$v - gpg --digest-algo=3DSHA256 --detach-sign -u 'xen tree' xen-$v.tar.= gz - cvs add -kb xen-$v.tar.gz - cvs add -kb xen-$v.tar.gz.sig + for t in xen-$v.tar.[glx]z + do + gpg --digest-algo=3DSHA256 --detach-sign -u 'xen tree' $t + cvs add -kb $t + cvs add -kb $t.sig + done cd ../../.. =20 cvs ci -m $v @@ -152,6 +155,10 @@ RELEASE TARBALL # should show something like # U oss-xen/release/4.8.0-rc2/xen-4.8.0-rc2.tar.gz # U oss-xen/release/4.8.0-rc2/xen-4.8.0-rc2.tar.gz.sig + # U oss-xen/release/4.8.0-rc2/xen-4.8.0-rc2.tar.lz + # U oss-xen/release/4.8.0-rc2/xen-4.8.0-rc2.tar.lz.sig + # U oss-xen/release/4.8.0-rc2/xen-4.8.0-rc2.tar.xz + # U oss-xen/release/4.8.0-rc2/xen-4.8.0-rc2.tar.xz.sig =20 After a .0 release, update XEN_EXTRAVERSION again (to .1-pre, see above). =20 --- a/docs/process/xen-release-management.pandoc +++ b/docs/process/xen-release-management.pandoc @@ -274,10 +274,10 @@ Xen X.Y rcZ is tagged. You can check tha https://xenbits.xen.org/git-http/xen.git X.Y.0-rcZ =20 For your convenience there is also a tarball at: -https://downloads.xenproject.org/release/xen/X.Y.0-rcZ/xen-X.Y.0-rcZ.tar.gz +https://downloads.xenproject.org/release/xen/X.Y.0-rcZ/xen-X.Y.0-rcZ.tar.[= glx]z =20 And the signature is at: -https://downloads.xenproject.org/release/xen/X.Y.0-rcZ/xen-X.Y.0-rcZ.tar.g= z.sig +https://downloads.xenproject.org/release/xen/X.Y.0-rcZ/xen-X.Y.0-rcZ.tar.[= glx]z.sig =20 Please send bug reports and test reports to xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org. When sending bug reports, please CC relevant maintainers and me --- a/tools/misc/mktarball +++ b/tools/misc/mktarball @@ -31,4 +31,14 @@ git_archive_into $xen_root $tdir/xen-$de =20 GZIP=3D-9v tar cz -f $xen_root/dist/xen-$desc.tar.gz -C $tdir xen-$desc =20 -echo "Source tarball in $xen_root/dist/xen-$desc.tar.gz" +if [ -n "$(command -v xz)" ] +then + tar c -C $tdir xen-$desc | $(command -v xz) -v -9 >$xen_root/dist/xen-$d= esc.tar.xz +fi + +if [ -n "$(command -v lzip)" ] +then + tar c -C $tdir xen-$desc | $(command -v lzip) -v -9 >$xen_root/dist/xen-= $desc.tar.lz +fi + +echo "Source tarball in $xen_root/dist/xen-$desc".tar.[glx]z