At Mon, 13 Jan 2025 11:10:28 +0100, Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost> wrote:
Subject: Re: Supporting compression-less release builds
>
> Yes, especially an override for the compression level, so a simple solution
> would be USE_XZ_SETS=no GZIP_LEVEL=0 or something like that (where GZIP_LEVEL
> does not exist yet).
Note that the sets Makefile sets a default for the make variable XZ_OPT,
and then passes it as XZ_OPT in the environment.
If I remember right I tried XZ_OPT=-0 but it was still painfully slow.
Instead I use USE_XZ_SETS=no and USE_PIGZGZIP=yes.
It does also passes the make variable GZIP_N_FLAG as GZIP in the
environment. One could add a "-0" to GZIP_N_FLAG, but note that the
default value varies slightly based on the setting of ${USE_PIGZGZIP}.
> For the original problem, I would do something else: hack the makefiles
> localy to not update the compressed aritfacts at all when some make variable
> is set. If that turns out to be usefull and not totally awful, it could
> even be commited with some warnings in the documentation.
Indeed -- this could prove useful for those of us who never care about
writing installation images to limited physical media any more.
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