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| author | Yaowei Bai <bywxiaobai@163.com> | 2015-03-03 22:08:03 +0800 |
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| committer | Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> | 2015-03-20 07:41:56 -0600 |
| commit | 1913c6f4488eef9f0ac38702eacf6921290e2400 (patch) | |
| tree | 4a6d347ac589a394d389456b026b23a6410dbe92 /README | |
| parent | 49d86dc92c6edc1ed674dca623d1e55d95e0c877 (diff) | |
| download | op-kernel-dev-1913c6f4488eef9f0ac38702eacf6921290e2400.zip op-kernel-dev-1913c6f4488eef9f0ac38702eacf6921290e2400.tar.gz | |
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 <bywxiaobai@163.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'README')
| -rw-r--r-- | README | 18 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 13 deletions
@@ -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: - - gzip -cd ../patch-4.x.gz | patch -p1 - - or + 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: - 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 |
