Add a configuration option to toggle compressing the final image.

config

@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ vars+=(release version mirror section blend_name image_name vm_name)
 vars+=(arch earch)
 vars+=(aptcachedir APT_CACHE aptcachegpg)
 vars+=(usercredentials rootcredentials)
+vars+=(nocompressimage)
 
 arrs+=(core_packages base_packages purge_packages blend_packages)
 

zlibs/imaging

@@ -170,17 +170,26 @@ image_pack_dist() {
 		zerr
 	}
 
+	if [[ -n "$nocompressimage" ]]; then
+		_suffix="img"
+	else
+		_suffix="img.xz"
+	fi
+
+	pushd $workdir
+
+	[[ -n "$nocompressimage" ]] || {
 		notice "compressing image with xz"
 		silly
-	pushd $workdir
 		xz -zv "${image_name}.img"
+	}
 
 	mkdir -p "$R/dist"
-	mv -v ${image_name}.img.xz     $R/dist/
+	mv -v ${image_name}.${_suffix} $R/dist/
 
 	pushd "$R/dist"
-	notice "generating sha256 for ${image_name}.img.xz"
+	notice "generating sha256 for ${image_name}.${_suffix}"
-	sha256sum ${image_name}.img.xz > ${image_name}.img.xz.sha
+	sha256sum ${image_name}.${_suffix} > ${image_name}.${_suffix}.sha
 	notice "generating sha256 for ${image_name}.tar.gz"
 	sha256sum ${image_name}.tar.gz > ${image_name}.tar.gz.sha
 	popd