Re: [ptxdist] [PATCH] rules/kernel: switch to xz compression

[Michael Olbrich <m.olbrich@pengutronix.de>]

On Fri, Apr 06, 2012 at 12:55:29PM +0200, Andreas Bießmann wrote:
> kernel is provided since 2.6.0 with xz compression. The main aim to use xz
> compression here is to save significant space for local mirrors.
> 
> linux-3.3.tar.bz2 is about 75 MiB
> linux-3.3.tar.xz is about 63 MiB
>  -> saves about 15 %

True, and I like that too. However, if I apply this, all BSPs on ptxdist
master will download a new kernel and complain about a wrong md5sum.
But I guess, people using master should be able to deal with this.

I'll apply it and wait for someone to complain :-)

Michael

> Signed-off-by: Andreas Bießmann <andreas@biessmann.de>
> ---
>  rules/kernel.make |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/rules/kernel.make b/rules/kernel.make
> index 336b76d..4a45a3f 100644
> --- a/rules/kernel.make
> +++ b/rules/kernel.make
> @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ endif
>  #
>  KERNEL			:= linux-$(KERNEL_VERSION)
>  KERNEL_MD5		:= $(call remove_quotes,$(PTXCONF_KERNEL_MD5))
> -KERNEL_SUFFIX		:= tar.bz2
> +KERNEL_SUFFIX		:= tar.xz
>  KERNEL_DIR		:= $(KERNEL_BDIR)/$(KERNEL)
>  KERNEL_CONFIG		:= $(call remove_quotes, $(PTXDIST_PLATFORMCONFIGDIR)/$(PTXCONF_KERNEL_CONFIG))
>  KERNEL_LICENSE		:= GPLv2
> -- 
> 1.7.9.6
> 
> 
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