[Sugar-devel] New SoaS-on-XO-1 build done: soasxo57

Martin Dengler martin at martindengler.com
Fri Aug 21 11:48:50 EDT 2009


On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 11:44:17AM -0400, Paul Fox wrote:
> martin wrote:
>  > 
>  > The tar.lzma is compressed version of a tar of one file which is a
>  > ext3 filesystem image, so I don't know that either method would help.
>  > 
> 
> i meant to ask about this.  why the "tar" step?  (why not just
> foo.img.lzma ?)

the .img file is a sparse file, and not tar'ing it first would mean it
would uncompress to a non-sparse file.  dsd started doing this for
F11-on-XO and I stole the idea.

> paul

Martin
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