From a9bd2b8685ee9cbc6b00e0aa684978fe5f6ca2eb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Korsgaard Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2021 18:01:45 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Makefile: release: use .tar.xz instead of .tar.bz2 xz compresses better than bzip2, and is (getting) more popular, so build release tarballs as .tar.xz (in addition to .tar.gz) instead of .tar.bz2, similar to how the kernel did ~8 years ago: https://www.kernel.org/happy-new-year-and-good-bye-bzip2.html -rw-r--r-- 1 peko peko 5,1M Dec 2 17:55 buildroot-2021.11-rc3.tar.xz -rw-r--r-- 1 peko peko 5,7M Nov 30 18:15 buildroot-2021.11-rc3.tar.bz2 -rw-r--r-- 1 peko peko 6,8M Nov 30 18:15 buildroot-2021.11-rc3.tar.gz Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard --- Makefile | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index 53f6ae9173..0f84122bd3 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -1210,7 +1210,7 @@ release: $(MAKE) O=$(OUT) distclean tar rf $(OUT).tar $(OUT) gzip -9 -c < $(OUT).tar > $(OUT).tar.gz - bzip2 -9 -c < $(OUT).tar > $(OUT).tar.bz2 + xz -9 -c < $(OUT).tar > $(OUT).tar.xz rm -rf $(OUT) $(OUT).tar print-version: