On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 3:43 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Rawhide has xz-compressed kernel modules. I think this is a good > thing as it saves a lot of disk space in VMs. > > It did however necessitate a change in supermin (used by libguestfs). > Upstream already supported xz-compressed modules -- the patch was > contributed by Arch Linux which has been using them for a long time. > However it was not turned on in Fedora because it needs a statically > linked liblzma (we're building a tiny, static init to bootstrap a VM). My apologies. I was unaware of supermin when I enabled it. > So I've taken co-maint of xz and added the xz-static subpackage. > [Discussion: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=547011 ] > > I've added this to Rawhide. Thanks for jumping on this so quickly. > It's waiting in updates-testing for F20, and could do with some > testing and karma: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2014-6534/xz-5.1.2-9alpha.fc20,supermin-5.1.8-5.fc20 > > I've not done anything for F19. Please let me know if xz-compressed > modules will be turned on there. We won't be enabling the compression for the stable releases. This is an F21 and future change only. josh -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
