From 1913c6f4488eef9f0ac38702eacf6921290e2400 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Yaowei Bai Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2015 22:08:03 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] README: Change gzip/bzip2 to xz compression format Kernel.org is only hosting patches and kernel compressed with xz, so change the old gzip/bzip2 instances to xz. Signed-off-by: Yaowei Bai Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet --- README | 18 +++++------------- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) diff --git a/README b/README index 67fc7a8badaf..69c68fb4a109 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -62,11 +62,7 @@ INSTALLING the kernel source: directory where you have permissions (eg. your home directory) and unpack it: - gzip -cd linux-4.X.tar.gz | tar xvf - - - or - - bzip2 -dc linux-4.X.tar.bz2 | tar xvf - + xz -cd linux-4.X.tar.xz | tar xvf - Replace "X" with the version number of the latest kernel. @@ -76,15 +72,11 @@ INSTALLING the kernel source: whatever the kernel-du-jour happens to be. - You can also upgrade between 4.x releases by patching. Patches are - distributed in the traditional gzip and the newer bzip2 format. To - install by patching, get all the newer patch files, enter the - top level directory of the kernel source (linux-4.X) and execute: + distributed in the xz format. To install by patching, get all the + newer patch files, enter the top level directory of the kernel source + (linux-4.X) and execute: - gzip -cd ../patch-4.x.gz | patch -p1 - - or - - bzip2 -dc ../patch-4.x.bz2 | patch -p1 + xz -cd ../patch-4.x.xz | patch -p1 Replace "x" for all versions bigger than the version "X" of your current source tree, _in_order_, and you should be ok. You may want to remove