if I remember well, there is one reason for which i preferred stay with bz2: the old distros were not able to build a kernel with xz patches
the old command "patch" was not compatible with XZ format, I think... I've tried to prepare universal SRPMS that can be rebuild also for our old distros My developer platform is ROSA Marathon, where I prepare and first test if I remember well ROSA Marathon (based on mdv2011) didnt build with XZ, and that was the reason, I can try again and verify this ASAP btw, if so, perhaps can we update "patch" without compromising 2012.0lts? Il Lunedì 17 Febbraio 2014 11:29, Tomasz Gajc <[email protected]> ha scritto: +1 for this cosmetic change 2014-02-17 11:18 GMT+01:00 Eugene Shatokhin <[email protected]>: Hello again, > >As bz2-compressed patches for the kernel are no longer provided at >ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/<...>, how about using xz-compressed >ones instead when building the kernels? > >The changes in the .spec file for the kernel are rather minimal, see the patch >attached. > >Regards, >Eugene > >-- >Eugene Shatokhin, ROSA Laboratory. >www.rosalab.com > > > >
