Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] link to .xz files to save some bandwidth

[Michael Roth]

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>
>  &mdash; <a
> +  
> href="http://download.qemu-project.org/qemu-{{release.branch}}.{{release.patch}}.tar.xz.sig";>signature</a>
>  &mdash; <a
>    
> href="http://wiki.qemu-project.org/ChangeLog/{{release.branch}}";>changes</a></li>
>  {% endfor %}
>  </ul>
> -- 
> 2.9.3
> 
>