[Buildroot] [PATCH v3 1/1] change package tarball compression to xz whenever possible

[Peter Korsgaard]

>>>>> "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.

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Bye, Peter Korsgaard