[Kernel-handbook-general] [PATCH] kernel source now uses xz compression

Cyril Brulebois kibi at debian.org
Mon May 25 01:40:14 UTC 2015


Hello Ryan,

Ryan Nowakowski <ryan at fattuba.com> (2015-05-19):
> It looks like the Debian kernel source switch from using bz to xz
> compression a while ago.
> 
> https://kernel-handbook.alioth.debian.org/ch-source.html
> 
> ---
>  manual/en/post-install/kernel-baking.xml | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/manual/en/post-install/kernel-baking.xml b/manual/en/post-install/kernel-baking.xml
> index 6013732..2cfbab6 100644
> --- a/manual/en/post-install/kernel-baking.xml
> +++ b/manual/en/post-install/kernel-baking.xml
> @@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ permissions.
>  </footnote>. We'll also assume that your kernel version is
>  &kernelversion;. Make sure you are in the directory to where you want to
>  unpack the kernel sources, extract them using
> -<userinput>tar xjf /usr/src/linux-source-&kernelversion;.tar.bz2</userinput>
> +<userinput>tar xJf /usr/src/linux-source-&kernelversion;.tar.xz</userinput>
>  and change to the directory <filename>linux-source-&kernelversion;</filename>
>  that will have been created.

debian-boot@ isn't the right contact address for the kernel handbook.
I'm redirecting this to kernel-handbook-general at lists.alioth.debian.org,
which is listed in “1.2 Authors and Contributors”.

Mraw,
KiBi.
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