[libmnl PATCH] Makefile: Create LZMA-compressed dist-files

[libmnl PATCH] Makefile: Create LZMA-compressed dist-files

[Phil Sutter]

Use a more modern alternative to bzip2.

Suggested-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
Suggested-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc>
---
 configure.ac | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index dcdd4245175e6..25916e2701385 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([build-aux])
 AC_CANONICAL_HOST
 AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4])
 AC_CONFIG_HEADERS([config.h])
-AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([foreign tar-pax no-dist-gzip dist-bzip2 1.6 subdir-objects])
+AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([foreign tar-pax no-dist-gzip dist-xz 1.6 subdir-objects])
 
 dnl kernel style compile messages
 m4_ifdef([AM_SILENT_RULES], [AM_SILENT_RULES([yes])])
-- 
2.38.0

Re: [libmnl PATCH] Makefile: Create LZMA-compressed dist-files

[Pablo Neira Ayuso]

Hi Phil

On Thu, Dec 08, 2022 at 01:13:39AM +0100, Phil Sutter wrote:
> Use a more modern alternative to bzip2.

I tested this one for libmnl specifically and it works fine with `make
distcheck`. I can quickly update the release script here to refer to
tar.xz instead of tar.bz2.

I have seen other projects offering both .tar.bz2 and .tar.xz, the
reason for this for me is unknown, I guess using .tar.xz should be
fine for everyone?

Please go ahead push out these patches, thanks.

Re: [libmnl PATCH] Makefile: Create LZMA-compressed dist-files

[Phil Sutter]

On Thu, Dec 08, 2022 at 09:29:11PM +0100, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
> Hi Phil
> 
> On Thu, Dec 08, 2022 at 01:13:39AM +0100, Phil Sutter wrote:
> > Use a more modern alternative to bzip2.
> 
> I tested this one for libmnl specifically and it works fine with `make
> distcheck`. I can quickly update the release script here to refer to
> tar.xz instead of tar.bz2.
> 
> I have seen other projects offering both .tar.bz2 and .tar.xz, the
> reason for this for me is unknown, I guess using .tar.xz should be
> fine for everyone?

Maybe cruft from a time when LZMA support in tar was new. Maybe also
people whining about failing distfile downloads.

Just for the record, one may easily configure automake to create
multiple archives with different compressions from the same 'make dist'
command.

> Please go ahead push out these patches, thanks.

Will do, thanks!

Cheers, Phil