[Buildroot] [PATCH 0/2] use host compressor for rootfs

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Sat Apr 12 16:43:39 UTC 2014


Dear Philippe Reynes,

On Sun,  6 Apr 2014 09:48:19 +0200, Philippe Reynes wrote:
> When the rootfs is compressed with lzma, lzo or xz, we
> use the binary compiled by buildroot. But with gzip
> or bzip, we use the tools of the machine. This serie
> change this behaviour for gzip and bzip2, it add
> a dependancy on host-<compressor> and use it to
> compress the rootfs.
> 
> Philippe Reynes (2):
>   rootfs-gzip: use host-gzip instead of local gzip
>   rootfs-bzip: use host-bzip2 instead of local bzip2

Since the general reception about these patches has been fairly
negative, I've marked them as Rejected in patchwork.

Thanks for your contribution!

Thomas
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