[PATCH 4/4] Use bcj filter for compressing squashfs ramdisk

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Using the BCJ filter can shave a few MB off the filesize of our ramdisk
at the expense of added CPU time. Worth it.
---
 src/pylorax/__init__.py |    5 +++++
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/pylorax/__init__.py b/src/pylorax/__init__.py
index ff9bf3b..21c3cb9 100644
--- a/src/pylorax/__init__.py
+++ b/src/pylorax/__init__.py
@@ -75,6 +75,7 @@ ARCHMAPS = {
 LIB32 = "lib"
 LIB64 = "lib64"
 
+bcj = dict(i386='x86', x86_64='x86', ppc='powerpc', sparc='sparc', ia64='ia64')
 
 class Lorax(BaseLoraxClass):
 
@@ -104,6 +105,7 @@ class Lorax(BaseLoraxClass):
         self.conf.add_section("compression")
         self.conf.set("compression", "type", "squashfs")
         self.conf.set("compression", "args", "-comp xz")
+        self.conf.set("compression", "bcj", "on")
 
         # read the config file
         if os.path.isfile(conf_file):
@@ -385,6 +387,9 @@ class Lorax(BaseLoraxClass):
 
         ctype = self.conf.get("compression", "type")
         cargs = self.conf.get("compression", "args")
+        if self.conf.get("compression", "bcj") == "on":
+            if self.basearch in bcj:
+                cargs += " -Xbcj %s" % bcj.get(self.basearch)
 
         i = imgclass(kernellist=self.outputtree.kernels,
                      installtree=self.installtree,
-- 
1.7.5.2

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