[Buildroot] [PATCH v3 1/1] change package tarball compression to xz whenever possible
Jerzy Grzegorek
jerzy.grzegorek at trzebnica.net
Mon Sep 9 12:00:10 UTC 2013
W dniu 09.09.2013 11:33, Peter Korsgaard pisze:
>>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> writes:
> Thomas> Peter,
> Thomas> On Fri, 6 Sep 2013 08:14:15 +0200, Jerzy Grzegorek wrote:
> >> Signed-off-by: Jerzy Grzegorek <jerzy.grzegorek at trzebnica.net>
>
> 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,
Sorry for the confusion. I checked only whether download provides xz-ed
tarball files, but I didn't check them.
I will check this patch once more.
Regards,
Jerzy
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