Re: different compression types for NetBSD-daily/netbsd-11/latest/ sets

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

On Thu, Oct 02, 2025 at 07:52:18AM -0700, Steve Rikli wrote:
> - remove sparc64 from the "tar.xz" if-then-else code

Yes.

Originally the .xz support was added to get sparc64 ISO images below
CD/R size (as there are machines that do not have DVD drives).

But there are also sparc64 machines with little RAM and then decompression
failed, so this was reworked and we now have separate DVD and CD ISOs
(with the CD ones missing a few optional sets).

However, as Greg pointed out, this can be easily overwritten at build
time:

	build.sh -V USE_XZ_SETS=no ....

and many users do that as the .xz compression step takes a significant
part of the overall build time.

Martin