Compressing the tarball with xz would save about 14 MB, see http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.devel/181336 and let me know if you'd like me to take care of this for devel. diff --git a/gcc.spec b/gcc.spec index 6929f54..e0054e9 100644 --- a/gcc.spec +++ b/gcc.spec @@ -79,3 +79,3 @@ Group: Development/Languages -# svn export svn://gcc.gnu.org/svn/gcc/branches/redhat/gcc-4_7-branch@%{SVNREV} gcc-%{version}-%{DATE} -# tar cf - gcc-%{version}-%{DATE} | bzip2 -9 > gcc-%{version}-%{DATE}.tar.bz2 -Source0: gcc-%{version}-%{DATE}.tar.bz2 +# svn export svn://gcc.gnu.org/svn/gcc/branches/redhat/gcc-4_8-branch@%{SVNREV} gcc-%{version}-%{DATE} +# tar cf - gcc-%{version}-%{DATE} | xz > gcc-%{version}-%{DATE}.tar.xz +Source0: gcc-%{version}-%{DATE}.tar.xz
As the same tarballs are used for RHEL5-RHEL7 and Fedora 19+, and RHEL5 doesn't have xz, this is not possible.
Fine, note however the s/gcc-4_7-branch/gcc-4_8-branch/ fix for the svn export command.