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gdb/350: make gdb.tar.bz2 VS make gdb.tar
- From: ac131313 at redhat dot com
- To: gdb-gnats at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: 11 Feb 2002 06:10:00 -0000
- Subject: gdb/350: make gdb.tar.bz2 VS make gdb.tar
- Reply-to: ac131313 at redhat dot com
>Number: 350
>Category: gdb
>Synopsis: make gdb.tar.bz2 VS make gdb.tar
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: unassigned
>State: open
>Class: support
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Sun Feb 10 22:18:07 PST 2002
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: ac131313@redhat.com
>Release: unknown-1.0
>Organization:
>Environment:
>Description:
The release process uses the top level make target ``gdb.tar.bz2''.
A review of the snapshot and release process reveals that a significant amount of time is unzipping, unpacking and then re-packing that (or similar) files.
The process can probably be sped up significantly dropping the compression step. Instead the client can compress the file explicitly.
>How-To-Repeat:
The official tar ball is .gz but the process creates a .bz2. It needs to be uncompressed / compressed.
The doco, ari and update steps all uncompress / unpack the compressed tar ball.
>Fix:
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: