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Bug 770441 - build.gnome.org could support mod_deflate
build.gnome.org could support mod_deflate
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: sysadmin
Classification: Infrastructure
Component: Other
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: GNOME Sysadmins
GNOME Sysadmins
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2016-08-26 13:39 UTC by Ray Strode [halfline]
Modified: 2016-08-26 13:42 UTC
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Description Ray Strode [halfline] 2016-08-26 13:39:00 UTC 
Some of the files in build.gnome.org are big, sparse files that should compress extremely well, but it looks like there's no way to transfer them compressed:

╎❯ telnet build.gnome.org 80
Trying 209.132.180.169...
Connected to build.gnome.org.
Escape character is '^]'.
HEAD /continuous/work/images/current/gnome-continuous-x86_64-devel-debug.qcow2 HTTP/1.1
Host: build.gnome.org
Accept-Encoding: xz, bzip2, lzma, gzip, deflate, br

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2016 13:20:43 GMT
Server: Apache/2.4.6 (Red Hat Enterprise Linux)
Last-Modified: Fri, 26 Aug 2016 12:48:05 GMT
ETag: "1e9720000-53af8ecfb4bb0"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 8211529728
Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *

No Content-Encoding header in output.

It would be neat if build.gnome.org turned on mod_deflate (though maybe the files should get xz'd as part of the continuous output, adding walters to cc list)
Comment 1 Ray Strode [halfline] 2016-08-26 13:42:00 UTC 
so turns out it does normally gzip the output here: http://build.gnome.org/continuous/buildmaster/images/z/current/ but the process is failing right now due to libvirt issues.

So maybe we don't need mod_deflate after all