Re: [PATCH v2 for-8.0 0/5] scripts/make-release: Decrease size of the release tarballs

[Paolo Bonzini]

Il lun 28 nov 2022, 18:04 Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> ha scritto:

With my distro maintainer hat I would rather QEMU ship neither the
ROM source, nor the ROM binaries.

Annd since QEMU can finally cross compile its embedded firmware modules, too, it is now easier for distros not to use any prebuilt binary.

However some firmware sources are only available from QEMU's submodules. So either we distribute those submodules as separate tarballs, or distros would need to use the bundled tarball as well.

Separately, I am not even sure what compiler is needed for the old Macintosh ROMs...

Paolo

Still the binaries are convenient for people doing their own QEMU
builds from source.

How about shipping two distinct options:

  qemu-x.y.z.tar.xz          (QEMU source only)
  qemu-bundled-x.y.z.tar.xz  (QEMU source + bundled ROM binaries + ROM sources)

though I'm not sure how much of an impact that will have on the download
traffic - depends what is causing the traffic.

Another option is

  qemu-x.y.z.tar.xz        (QEMU source only)
  qemu-roms-x.y.z.tar.xz   (bundled ROM binaries + ROM sources)

though this is slightly more inconvenient for users, and there's the
risk they'll use new QEMU with old ROMs.


With regards,
Daniel
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