239041 - RFE: Make tar.bz2 the default packager format on Solaris

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: Build Config, enhancement)

Description

[Roland Mainz]

RFE: Make tar.bz2 the default packager format on Solaris to save lots of bytes
in the resulting distributions archive.

Some stats from FireFox (nightly build):
bytes    | filename
---------+------------------------------------------
16543672 | firefox-sparc-sun-solaris2.8.tar.bz2
20209054 | firefox-sparc-sun-solaris2.8.tar.gz
  940101 | gecko-sdk-sparc-sun-solaris2.8.tar.bz2
 1226379 | gecko-sdk-sparc-sun-solaris2.8.tar.gz

It seems that using bzip2 instead of gzip saves nearly 4MB in the resulting
binary tarball.

Comment 1

[Roland Mainz]

Attachment: Patch for 2004-03-27-trunk

Comment 2

[Roland Mainz]

Comment on attachment 145007 [details] [diff] [review]
Patch for 2004-03-27-trunk

Requesting r= ...

Note that Solaris shipps with bzip2 tools since Solaris 2.7 so there are no
problems for people to unpack the binaty builds on the affected platforms.

Comment 3

[Pete Zha]

Comment on attachment 145007 [details] [diff] [review]
Patch for 2004-03-27-trunk

r=pete

Comment 4

[Roland Mainz]

Comment on attachment 145007 [details] [diff] [review]
Patch for 2004-03-27-trunk

Over to leaf per IRC comments.

Comment 5

[Daniel (Leaf) Nunes]

Comment on attachment 145007 [details] [diff] [review]
Patch for 2004-03-27-trunk

is bzip2 installed on most solaris installations?

Comment 6

[Roland Mainz]

Daniel (Leaf) Nunes wrote:
> (From update of attachment 145007 [details] [diff] [review])
> is bzip2 installed on most solaris installations?

Solaris >= 2.8 ships with bzip2/bunzip by default, for Solaris 2.7 it was added
after the FCS (First Customer Shipping, e.g. the first version available to the
public) release, the matching feature patch is part of the Recommonded&Security
patch cluster, see
http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/show.pl?target=patches/xos-7&nav=pub-patches
(patch id is 111666-01 ; the patch was first released in 2001 and should now be
available on all Solaris 2.7 installations. If not they likely miss a bunch of
other patches required by Mozilla, too (that's why we have the patch checker now
:)) ...

Comment 7

[Roland Mainz]

Comment on attachment 145007 [details] [diff] [review]
Patch for 2004-03-27-trunk

Requesting a= for Mozilla1.7final... the patch just changes the default
packager format, people can always fall back to tar.gz via
% cd xpinstall/packager
% gmake MOZILLA_BIN=../../dist/bin/mozilla-bin MOZ_PKG_APPNAME=mozilla
MOZ_PKG_FORMAT=TGZ

Comment 8

[Roland Mainz]

pkw:
What about doing the same for AIX ? :)

Comment 9

[chris hofmann]

Comment on attachment 145007 [details] [diff] [review]
Patch for 2004-03-27-trunk

a=chofmann for 1.7

Comment 10

[Robert Kaiser]

I just checked in Roland's patch per his request on IRC:

Checking in xpinstall/packager/Makefile.in;
/cvsroot/mozilla/xpinstall/packager/Makefile.in,v  <--  Makefile.in
new revision: 1.49; previous revision: 1.48
done