Bug 425018

Summary:	All >sys-kernel/*-sources-3: should use tar.xz
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	wbrana
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Kernel Bug Wranglers and Kernel Maintainers <kernel>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	hardened-kernel+disabled
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=421721
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description wbrana 2012-07-06 09:38:18 UTC

source code is available as tar.xz 
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/linux-3.4.tar.xz

Comment 1 Anthony Basile gentoo-dev

2012-07-06 14:12:41 UTC

The KERNEL_URI is defined in kernel-2.eclass with .tar.bz2.  This enhancement is not hardened-sources specific and if it were implemented, should be done so for all kernel >v3.0.

Having said that, I really don't see the big deal.  I know its about 15% gain, but is ~10MB in ~75MB really worth the savings?

Comment 2 Mike Pagano gentoo-dev

2012-08-29 13:42:43 UTC

I don't see the urgency for this change, either.

Comment 3 Sam James archtester

2024-04-19 05:21:59 UTC

I came across this bug when looking at something else, but FWIW:

commit 99dcf06e308ff01aaf2bcc1890426d0c352a298b
Author: Tom Wijsman <tomwij@gentoo.org>
Date:   Sat Mar 9 21:05:50 2013 +0000

    Kernel sources and (gen)patches now use xz instead of bz2. Bug #421721.