On May 24, 2017 1:22:42 AM GMT+02:00, Matthias Klose <d...@ubuntu.com> wrote: >On 18.05.2017 03:34, Richard Biener wrote: >> On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 3:11 AM, Matthias Klose <d...@ubuntu.com> >wrote: >>> As discussed on IRC with Jakub and Richard here are is a small patch >which >>> builds xz compressed tarballs and diff files. >>> >>> Tested with >>> >>> maintainer-scripts/gcc_release \ >>> -s snap:trunk -p <old bz2 tarball> diffs sources tarfiles >>> maintainer-scripts/gcc_release \ >>> -s snap:trunk -p <old xz tarball> diffs sources tarfiles >>> >>> and checked that the new tarball and diff files are compressed using >xz. >>> >>> Ok for the trunk and the gcc-7-branch? >> >> Ok. The version on trunk can get the bz2 old-tar support removed >after the next >> snapshot generation I think. Likewise the branch version after 7.2 >> was released. > >Looks like the copy of the script on gcc.gnu.org affects all active >branches.
Yes. Only the trunk script is actually used, so ... >the May 23 GCC 5 snapshot was created successfully. Is this >acceptable? If yes, >then the patch should probably go to the 5 and 6 branches as well. ... This isn't really necessary. >Please copy the script again to enable the xz --best compression. > >Matthias
