[Mapguide-trac] [mapguide-trac] #2487: Use xz instead of gzip for packaging CentOS tarballs

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#2487: Use xz instead of gzip for packaging CentOS tarballs
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   Reporter:  jng        |       Owner:  jng
       Type:  task       |      Status:  new
   Priority:  low        |   Milestone:  3.0
  Component:  Installer  |     Version:     
   Severity:  trivial    |    Keywords:     
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 Whatever next version of MapGuide we release, for the CentOS build we
 should use the xz compression instead of gzip for creating tarballs

 xz is a unix-friendly variant of lzma. Our windows installers are already
 lzma archives. Thus switching to xz compression should give us tarballs
 whose size is around the same ballpark as our Windows installers (140-150
 MB) instead of 217MB as of the 2.6 release

 The default tar utility in CentOS 6.x and Ubuntu 12.04 already supports xz
 compression, so support is not an issue.

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Ticket URL: <http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/ticket/2487>
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