[Rpm-maint] [PATCH] support for multi-threaded compressors

[Thierry Vignaud]

On 28 August 2015 at 14:30, Thierry Vignaud <thierry.vignaud at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Objectives of this patch is to speed up the compression in rpmbuild. To
>> achieve this, the patch implements support for a new compressor, functioning
>> as an interface against external (multi-threaded) compressors. The main
>> issue with these external compressor-wrappers is the lack of libraries (i.e.
>> gzwrite, lzwrite). There's no corresponding functions for PIGZ, PBZIP2, PXZ
>> etc. The new compressor has been written to as closely as possible emulate
>> these functions, while piping the data from Fwrite to an external process,
>> reading any data from the (external) compressor to prevent buffer overflows
>> and/or excessive memory usage. To use pigz (instead of gzip) just add to the
>> spec-file:
>> %define _source_payload w9.pigzdio
>> %define _binary_payload w9.pigzdio
>> and for pxz (instead of xz):
>> %define _source_payload w9.pxzdio
>> %define _binary_payload w9.pxzdio
>
> There's lot of gratuitous space/indent changes there.
> Please remove them...

Also it's not against latest git master...