Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v1] tools/mkrpm: switch payload to gzip to reduce turnaround time

[Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 12:05:11PM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote:
> rpmbuild -bb spents alot of time in compressing the binaries. Reduce the
> turnaround time of 'make rpmball' by using gzip as compression tool.
> This reduces the buildtime from 'w9.xzdio'/138 seconds to 'w1.gzdio'/88
> seconds in my environment.
> The downside is an increased filesize of xen.rpm, 19MB vs. 37MB.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@xxxxxxxxx>

Per my understanding, this target is mostly for developers to
conveniently create an rpm file for testing. I don't think I would care
about the increased size, but I will let others voice their opinions.

Wei.

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