I noticed a while back that the tarballs for FreeBSD builds are compressed with bzip2, unlike GNU/Linux and Solaris which uses xz. Is there a reason why this is so (like xz not being used much in FreeBSD)? Would be nice to save megabytes of space each update on the server if there's no reason why we shouldn't use xz in FreeBSD.
I have a ready-made commit that can be cherry-picked that will make the packaging on FreeBSD the same as in Linux and Solaris.
FreeBSD tarball compression
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Re: FreeBSD tarball compression
No particular reason, I just used the compression it picked automatically. I might have to install xz on the server but I am fine with that change. (Actually just checked it is installed as part of the base system under contributed works).jobbautista9 wrote: ↑2023-04-03, 06:14I have a ready-made commit that can be cherry-picked that will make the packaging on FreeBSD the same as in Linux and Solaris.
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Re: FreeBSD tarball compression
Cool. Can you test with this branch based on current master please and check if it breaks anything in FreeBSD packaging and spits out a tar.xz before I open a PR? Thanks!
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Compiled and packaged successfully, saved about 9MB vs bzip2.jobbautista9 wrote: ↑2023-04-03, 07:48Cool. Can you test with this branch based on current master please and check if it breaks anything in FreeBSD packaging and spits out a tar.xz before I open a PR? Thanks!
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Re: FreeBSD tarball compression
Thanks! Filed PR Issue #2188 (UXP)
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Re: FreeBSD tarball compression
Thanks! Merged in.
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