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 <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Michael Roth <[email protected]> > --- > _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 > >
