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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] link to .xz files to save some bandwidth
From: |
Michael Roth |
Subject: |
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] link to .xz files to save some bandwidth |
Date: |
Tue, 07 Feb 2017 18:43:18 -0600 |
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Quoting Paolo Bonzini (2017-02-07 09:59:56)
> I have converted all .gz and .bz2 files to .xz on download.qemu.org
> and this patch would change the links in the website. This would save
> about 5 GB of bandwidth every day (about 20% savings).
>
> xz should be available for all platforms. Besides providing better
> compression ratios, decompression of .xz files is about twice as fast
> compared to bzip2. Compression instead is about 5.5 times slower.
I suppose that's a fair enough trade. :)
> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden>
Reviewed-by: Michael Roth <address@hidden>
> ---
> _download/source.html | 4 ++--
> _includes/releases.html | 4 ++--
Somewhat related: I think _data/releases.yml needs to be updated as it's
still referencing 2.7.0 instead of 2.7.1. Would one just start updating
that file with each new release, or is there some other process?
> 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/_download/source.html b/_download/source.html
> index 1ac8f4f..d090a5e 100644
> --- a/_download/source.html
> +++ b/_download/source.html
> @@ -15,8 +15,8 @@
>
> {% for release in site.data.releases offset: 0 limit: 1 %}
> <p>To download and build QEMU
> {{release.branch}}.{{release.patch}}:</p>
> -<pre>wget
> http://download.qemu-project.org/qemu-{{release.branch}}.{{release.patch}}.tar.bz2
> -tar xvjf qemu-{{release.branch}}.{{release.patch}}.tar.bz2
> +<pre>wget
> http://download.qemu-project.org/qemu-{{release.branch}}.{{release.patch}}.tar.xz
> +tar xvJf qemu-{{release.branch}}.{{release.patch}}.tar.xz
> cd qemu-{{release.branch}}.{{release.patch}}
> ./configure
> make
> diff --git a/_includes/releases.html b/_includes/releases.html
> index 2caab8d..226c719 100644
> --- a/_includes/releases.html
> +++ b/_includes/releases.html
> @@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
> <ul>
> {% for release in site.data.releases offset: 0 limit: 4 %}
> <li><strong><a
> -
> href="http://download.qemu-project.org/qemu-{{release.branch}}.{{release.patch}}.tar.bz2">{{release.branch}}.{{release.patch}}</a></strong>
> +
> href="http://download.qemu-project.org/qemu-{{release.branch}}.{{release.patch}}.tar.xz">{{release.branch}}.{{release.patch}}</a></strong>
> {{release.date}}<br><a
> -
> href="http://download.qemu-project.org/qemu-{{release.branch}}.{{release.patch}}.tar.bz2.sig">signature</a>
> — <a
> +
> href="http://download.qemu-project.org/qemu-{{release.branch}}.{{release.patch}}.tar.xz.sig">signature</a>
> — <a
>
> href="http://wiki.qemu-project.org/ChangeLog/{{release.branch}}">changes</a></li>
> {% endfor %}
> </ul>
> --
> 2.9.3
>
>