Thomas Huth <th...@redhat.com> writes:
> Our current release tarballs are huge and caused already some trouble
> with the server traffic in the past. However, the biggest chunk (~80%)
> of the tarball is caused by the firmware sources - which most users
> don't need anyway (assuming that they just want to compile QEMU itself
> on their own). So we can certainly safe a lot of traffic by moving
> the firmware sources into a separate tarball, so that only people who
> really want to rebuild the firmware images on their own have to
> download it.
>
> This decreases the size of the main QEMU xz tarball from ca. 116 MiB
> to only 27 MiB!
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <th...@redhat.com>
> ---
> scripts/make-release | 13 +++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/scripts/make-release b/scripts/make-release
> index febeb6cb36..44408c24a2 100755
> --- a/scripts/make-release
> +++ b/scripts/make-release
> @@ -42,6 +42,19 @@ git submodule update --init --single-branch
> CryptoPkg/Library/OpensslLib/openssl \
> MdeModulePkg/Library/BrotliCustomDecompressLib/brotli)
>
> +tar --exclude=".git*" -cjf ../qemu-rom-sources-${version}.tar.bz2 roms
> +rm -r roms/*
> +
> +cat > roms/README.rst <<EOF
> +Please download the qemu-rom-sources-${version}.tar.bz2 tarball
> +and unpack it in the topmost directory of the QEMU sources in
> +case you want to recompile the QEMU ROM images.
> +EOF
> +cat > roms/Makefile <<EOF
> +%:
> + @cat README.rst
> +EOF
> +
Hmmm I guess this is marginally more magic than an exclude file. Anyway
it works:
Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.ben...@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Alex Bennée <alex.ben...@linaro.org>
> rm -v .*.yml
> popd
--
Alex Bennée
