This requires calling dpkg-deb directly and pass it -z0. It reduces the time to run the mkdeb script from 14 seconds to 3 seconds on my workstation with SSD, from 87s to 15s on a machine with HDD. The deb file grows from 49M to 58M.
Signed-off-by: Wei Liu <wei.l...@citrix.com> --- tools/misc/mkdeb | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/tools/misc/mkdeb b/tools/misc/mkdeb index 67b91cc1e5..f4befccc42 100644 --- a/tools/misc/mkdeb +++ b/tools/misc/mkdeb @@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ find deb/etc -type f -printf /etc/%P\\n >deb/DEBIAN/conffiles # Package it up chown -R root:root deb -dpkg --build deb xen-upstream-$version.deb +dpkg-deb --build -z0 deb xen-upstream-$version.deb # Tidy up after ourselves rm -rf deb -- 2.11.0 _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org https://lists.xenproject.org/mailman/listinfo/xen-devel
