Re: Switching release media dist sets to .tzst (tar + zstd)?

On Fri, 13 Dec 2024 at 16:47, Shawn Webb <shawn.webb@hardenedbsd.org> wrote:
>
> Hey Ed,
>
> Thanks for providing the opportunity to discuss this before landing
> it.

To be clear, this was just intended to explore the idea. I was looking
at some release artifact build infrastructure and was curious about
how extensive the changes would be.

> The tool for updating HardenedBSD installs (and the tool used to build
> the update artifacts) would be impacted. It wouldn't be too difficult
> to update the tools (hbsd-update and hbsd-update-build). However, if
> the switch zstd is not done at the same time for all supported
> branches (main and stable/14), we would need to have hbsd-update
> reference different archives between different branches--zstd for
> main and xz for stable/14. I would prefer not to have to include
> branch-specific code in a generic system updater utility.

Interesting, so you're using the dist sets for updates as well? This
is one good outcome of this discussion -- identifying different ways
folks are using the dist sets.