From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jerzy Grzegorek Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2013 16:10:09 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH v3 1/1] change package tarball compression to xz whenever possible In-Reply-To: <8761uaxru0.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> References: <1378448055-3056-1-git-send-email-jerzy.grzegorek@trzebnica.net> <20130909092425.6a16e694@skate> <8761uaxru0.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> Message-ID: <522DD6C1.6000401@trzebnica.net> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net >>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni writes: > Thomas> Peter, > Thomas> On Fri, 6 Sep 2013 08:14:15 +0200, Jerzy Grzegorek wrote: > >> Signed-off-by: Jerzy Grzegorek > > Thomas> I've seen you committed this patch, but unfortunately it breaks all > Thomas> Github downloads. It assumes Github provides a .tar.xz file, but it > Thomas> doesn't: even if you request a .tar.xz file from Github, it gives you a > Thomas> gzip compressed file: > > Thomas> $ wget http://github.com/gandro/input-event-daemon/tarball/v0.1.3/input-event-daemon-v0.1.3.tar.xz > Thomas> [...] > Thomas> $ file input-event-daemon-v0.1.3.tar.xz > Thomas> input-event-daemon-v0.1.3.tar.xz: gzip compressed data, from Unix > > Thomas> This is causing a huge number of build failures in the autobuilders. > Thomas> For example, cpuload: > Thomas> http://autobuild.buildroot.org/results/bcd/bcdf4bdca4d5f8ffc9c84afcadf1b057fc03e009/build-end.log. > > Argh :/ > > I did test a few packages, but apparently none using github. > > Thomas> So I believe this patch should be reverted, or at least the parts > Thomas> affecting Github downloads. > > I'll revert the github parts. > Hi Thomas, Peter, I checked all these files and indeed even if you request a .tar.xz file from Github, it gives you a gzip compressed file. All other downloaded xz-ed files changed by this patch seem to really be xz compressed files. Regards, Jerzy