From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
To: Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc>, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>,
netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [iptables PATCH 08/11] Makefile: Generate .tar.bz2 archive with 'make dist'
Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2022 22:35:27 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y5EHH+byXJhBLgoE@salvia> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Y5D90jEMuoGhuiSx@orbyte.nwl.cc>
On Wed, Dec 07, 2022 at 09:55:46PM +0100, Phil Sutter wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 07, 2022 at 08:13:56PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> >
> > On Wednesday 2022-12-07 19:56, Phil Sutter wrote:
> > >On Wed, Dec 07, 2022 at 07:45:30PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> > >
> > >| 984K iptables-1.8.8.tar.gz
> > >| 772K iptables-1.8.8.tar.bz2
> > >| 636K iptables-1.8.8.tar.xz
> > >
> > >Moving to LZMA is trivial from a Makefile's point of view, but
> > >most packagers will have extra work adjusting for the new file name
> >
> > How hard could it be? Surely they'll manage to change _three
> > characters_ (or perhaps even ten, to manually run /usr/bin/<thing> if
> > there's no suffix autodetection) in their build recipe, right?
>
> Hey, if we're discussing almost negligible size reduction, I want to
> discuss almost negligible extra effort, too! :D
>
> Pablo, you're doing the legwork when it comes to releases, what's your
> opinion?
Please, whoever feels like, go ahead and just send patches to generate
lzma files in userspace netfilter tree wide, I remember this was
discussed in the past.
Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-12-07 21:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-12-07 17:44 [iptables PATCH 00/11] Support 'make dist' and 'make check' Phil Sutter
2022-12-07 17:44 ` [iptables PATCH 01/11] Drop INCOMPATIBILITIES file Phil Sutter
2022-12-07 17:44 ` [iptables PATCH 02/11] Drop libiptc/linux_stddef.h Phil Sutter
2022-12-07 17:44 ` [iptables PATCH 03/11] Makefile: Generate ip6tables man pages on the fly Phil Sutter
2022-12-07 18:36 ` Jan Engelhardt
2022-12-07 18:48 ` Phil Sutter
2022-12-07 17:44 ` [iptables PATCH 04/11] extensions: Makefile: Merge initext targets Phil Sutter
2022-12-07 17:44 ` [iptables PATCH 05/11] iptables/Makefile: Reorg variable assignments Phil Sutter
2022-12-07 17:44 ` [iptables PATCH 06/11] iptables/Makefile: Split nft-variant man page list Phil Sutter
2022-12-07 17:44 ` [iptables PATCH 07/11] Makefile: Fix for 'make distcheck' Phil Sutter
2022-12-07 17:44 ` [iptables PATCH 08/11] Makefile: Generate .tar.bz2 archive with 'make dist' Phil Sutter
2022-12-07 18:45 ` Jan Engelhardt
2022-12-07 18:56 ` Phil Sutter
2022-12-07 19:13 ` Jan Engelhardt
2022-12-07 20:55 ` Phil Sutter
2022-12-07 21:35 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso [this message]
2022-12-07 17:44 ` [iptables PATCH 09/11] include/Makefile: xtables-version.h is generated Phil Sutter
2022-12-07 17:44 ` [iptables PATCH 10/11] tests: Adjust testsuite return codes to automake guidelines Phil Sutter
2022-12-07 17:44 ` [iptables PATCH 11/11] Makefile.am: Integrate testsuites Phil Sutter
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