Re: [PATCH] make-release: switch to .xz format by default

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Mon, 4 Mar 2024 at 13:52, Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru> wrote:
>
> For a long time, we provide two compression formats in the
> download area, .bz2 and .xz.  There's absolutely no reason
> to provide two in parallel, .xz compresses better, and all
> the links we use points to .xz.  Downstream distributions
> mostly use .xz too.
>
> For the release maintenance providing two formats is definitely
> extra burden too.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
> ---
>  scripts/make-release | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>

> diff --git a/scripts/make-release b/scripts/make-release
> index 9c570b87f4..6e0433de24 100755
> --- a/scripts/make-release
> +++ b/scripts/make-release
> @@ -47,5 +47,5 @@ meson subprojects download $SUBPROJECTS
>          CryptoPkg/Library/OpensslLib/openssl \
>          MdeModulePkg/Library/BrotliCustomDecompressLib/brotli)
>  popd
> -tar --exclude=.git -cjf ${destination}.tar.bz2 ${destination}
> +tar --exclude=.git -cJf ${destination}.tar.xz ${destination}
>  rm -rf ${destination}
> --
> 2.39.2
>
>