This allows us to produce releases that are roughly a third in
size, have no limitation on path length, and are still readable
by all supported platforms.
---
Changes from [v1]:
* Update all references to .tar.gz, including spec files,
scripts and documentation (thanks Dan)
* Fix typo lenght -> length (thanks Ján)
[v1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2016-June/msg00974.html
.gitignore | 2 +-
Makefile.am | 2 +-
autobuild.sh | 2 +-
configure.ac | 2 +-
docs/compiling.html.in | 2 +-
docs/downloads.html.in | 4 ++--
libvirt.spec.in | 2 +-
mingw-libvirt.spec.in | 2 +-
8 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 7fd9963..39c0423 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@
/gnulib/tests/*
/include/libvirt/libvirt-common.h
/libtool
-/libvirt-*.tar.gz
+/libvirt-*.tar.xz
/libvirt-[0-9]*
/libvirt*.pc
/libvirt.spec
diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
index da07e6c..4b4aad3 100644
--- a/Makefile.am
+++ b/Makefile.am
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ $(top_srcdir)/HACKING: $(top_srcdir)/docs/hacking1.xsl \
> $@-t && mv $@-t $@ ; fi;
rpm: clean
- @(unset CDPATH ; $(MAKE) dist && rpmbuild -ta $(distdir).tar.gz)
+ @(unset CDPATH ; $(MAKE) dist && rpmbuild -ta $(distdir).tar.xz)
check-local: all tests
diff --git a/autobuild.sh b/autobuild.sh
index 4d9f616..2143479 100755
--- a/autobuild.sh
+++ b/autobuild.sh
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ exec 3>&-
test "$st" = 0
test -x /usr/bin/lcov && make cov
-rm -f *.tar.gz
+rm -f *.tar.xz
make dist
if test -n "$AUTOBUILD_COUNTER" ; then
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 0114149..7d16e5a 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ AH_BOTTOM([#include <config-post.h>])
AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4])
dnl Make automake keep quiet about wildcards & other GNUmake-isms; also keep
dnl quiet about the fact that we intentionally cater to automake 1.9
-AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([-Wno-portability -Wno-obsolete tar-ustar subdir-objects])
+AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([-Wno-portability -Wno-obsolete tar-pax no-dist-gzip dist-xz subdir-objects])
dnl older automake's default of ARFLAGS=cru is noisy on newer binutils;
dnl we don't really need the 'u' even in older toolchains. Then there is
dnl older libtool, which spelled it AR_FLAGS
diff --git a/docs/compiling.html.in b/docs/compiling.html.in
index aff5487..d2a3f15 100644
--- a/docs/compiling.html.in
+++ b/docs/compiling.html.in
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
</p>
<pre>
- $ gunzip -c libvirt-x.x.x.tar.gz | tar xvf -
+ $ xz -c libvirt-x.x.x.tar.xz | tar xvf -
$ cd libvirt-x.x.x
$ ./configure</pre>
diff --git a/docs/downloads.html.in b/docs/downloads.html.in
index f213b29..1a3400a 100644
--- a/docs/downloads.html.in
+++ b/docs/downloads.html.in
@@ -28,8 +28,8 @@
</p>
<ul>
- <li><a href="ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt/libvirt-git-snapshot.tar.gz";>libvirt.org FTP server</a></li>
- <li><a href="http://libvirt.org/sources/libvirt-git-snapshot.tar.gz";>libvirt.org HTTP server</a></li>
+ <li><a href="ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt/libvirt-git-snapshot.tar.xz";>libvirt.org FTP server</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://libvirt.org/sources/libvirt-git-snapshot.tar.xz";>libvirt.org HTTP server</a></li>
</ul>
<h2><a name="schedule">Primary release schedule</a></h2>
diff --git a/libvirt.spec.in b/libvirt.spec.in
index ee6162e..6b3e888 100644
--- a/libvirt.spec.in
+++ b/libvirt.spec.in
@@ -225,7 +225,7 @@ URL: http://libvirt.org/
%if %(echo %{version} | grep -o \\. | wc -l) == 3
%define mainturl stable_updates/
%endif
-Source: http://libvirt.org/sources/%{?mainturl}libvirt-%{version}.tar.gz
+Source: http://libvirt.org/sources/%{?mainturl}libvirt-%{version}.tar.xz
Requires: libvirt-daemon = %{version}-%{release}
Requires: libvirt-daemon-config-network = %{version}-%{release}
diff --git a/mingw-libvirt.spec.in b/mingw-libvirt.spec.in
index 6f95832..e808839 100644
--- a/mingw-libvirt.spec.in
+++ b/mingw-libvirt.spec.in
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ Summary: MinGW Windows libvirt virtualization library
License: LGPLv2+
Group: Development/Libraries
URL: http://libvirt.org/
-Source0: ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt/libvirt-%{version}.tar.gz
+Source0: ftp://libvirt.org/libvirt/libvirt-%{version}.tar.xz
BuildRequires: mingw32-filesystem >= 95
BuildRequires: mingw64-filesystem >= 95
--
2.5.5
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