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

[Ben Hutchings]

On Mon, 2015-05-25 at 03:40 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> 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”.

This error is in the installation manual, though the example in the
kernel handbook
<https://kernel-handbook.alioth.debian.org/ch-common-tasks.html#s-common-building> is similarly outdated.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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