[bug#29995] [PATCH 0/5] Publish build logs, compress as gzip

[Ludovic Courtès]

Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> skribis:

> Additionally, these patches add support for gzip compression of build
> logs, which is probably more appropriate for ‘guix publish’ (it can
> return a text/plain with gzip Content-Encoding, which plays nicely with
> browsers and all.)  The last patches make libbz2 an optional dependency.

For reference, here’s the compressed build log of GCC 7.2.0 with gzip
and bzip2, -9 and default compression, and no compression:

  -rw-r--r-- 1 ludo users 13890768 Jan  5 15:45 /tmp/log
  -rw-r--r-- 1 ludo users   546709 Jan  5 15:45 /tmp/log.9.bz2
  -rw-r--r-- 1 ludo users   693638 Jan  5 15:45 /tmp/log.9.gz
  -rw-r--r-- 1 ludo users   546709 Jan  5 15:45 /tmp/log.bz2
  -rw-r--r-- 1 ludo users   737772 Jan  5 15:45 /tmp/log.gz

Ludo’.