On 9 November 2012 00:33, Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> wrote: > Dmitrijs Ledkovs <x...@debian.org> writes: > >> Gzip is ok, but many packages these days use xz -9 --extreme deb options >> which is not fast at all on my pandaboard nor on my cloud instances with >> capped CPU & memory. Using such compression is good for release debs, >> but not in developer testing. It wastes developer's time. > > Oh, okay. It would actually be much easier to standardize a way to switch > to gzip compression than it would be to add a new concept of uncompressed > packages. >
dpkg-source supports gzip, bzip2, lzma, xz (matters for beefy native packages) dpkg-deb supports none, gzip, bzip2, lzma, xz The reason why I am after a DEB_BUILD_OPTION is that there are multiple tools that can optimized for time. E.g. disable dh_scour that can take also take a while. And setting multiple environment variables is not nice. Alternatively we can abuse the noopt option, but I'd rather not redefine / add extra meaning to the existing options. Regards, Dmitrijs. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/canbhluh9yuiqcbcucqymqhf85y+apv1-vrf4va0xwzk5k2b...@mail.gmail.com
