Commit 1913c6f4 authored by Yaowei Bai's avatar Yaowei Bai Committed by Jonathan Corbet
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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: default avatarYaowei Bai <bywxiaobai@163.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
parent 49d86dc9

README

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@@ -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