There is no rule to compress the sysvinit tarball using the chosen compressor. The current tarball (.tar.xz) is a plain tar (GNU).
$ file sysvinit-2.90-beta.tar.xz sysvinit-2.90-beta.tar.xz: POSIX tar archive (GNU) On Mon, 28 May 2018 15:58:55 -0300 Matias Fonzo <s...@dragora.org> wrote: > Cool. Another version of sysvinit, We can test it on Dragora -devel. > > I suggest to change the -fstack-protector option to > -fstack-protector-strong by default, which provides a good balance > between security, performance. Also, do not forget to distribute an > alternative format, for us.. the people who tries to avoid .xz. :-) > > (If you don't like lzip, it could be in .tar.bz2, alongside > the .tar.xz). > > Thanks, > MatÃas > > On Mon, 28 May 2018 12:34:30 -0300 > Jesse Smith <jsm...@resonatingmedia.com> wrote: > > > Hi all. I am testing a new beta snapshot of SysV init. This one > > carries the version label 2.90-beta and can be downloaded from the > > usual location [1]. > > > > This beta mostly focuses on minor code clean-up. A few little issues > > were cleaned up and issues with newer compilers (like GCC 7) were > > fixed. > > > > The shutdown process now recognizes when the computer has been put > > to sleep after shutdown was run. Assuming the system clock is > > accurate, we now shutdown when originally asked to instead of at > > the original time + time spent in suspend mode. > > > > The /run/initctl interface was documented and now has its own man > > page. > > > > Upon receiving SIGUSR2, init will close all of its files, including > > its control pipe. The pipe can be reopened with SIGUSR1. > > > > There have been minor updates to #include directives to handle > > changes in the way some defines are packaged, and a few updates to > > the Makefile to make building/distributing sysvinit easier. > > > > Fixed a nasty bug where building sysvinit on Fedora would appear to > > work, but without properly linking to crypt() causing either a crash > > or undefined behaviour. > > > > Those are the highlights and the rest can be found in the tarball's > > doc/Changelog file. > > > > These changes have been tested on amd64 and ARM. And I'm hoping this > > beta will attract more testers to confirm everything is working > > properly. > > > > 1. http://download.savannah.nongnu.org/releases/sysvinit/ > > > >
