kernel is provided since 2.6.0 with xz compression. The main aim to use xz
compression here is to save significant space for local mirrors.

linux-3.3.tar.bz2 is about 75 MiB
linux-3.3.tar.xz is about 63 MiB
 -> saves about 15 %

Signed-off-by: Andreas Bießmann <[email protected]>
---
 rules/kernel.make |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/rules/kernel.make b/rules/kernel.make
index 336b76d..4a45a3f 100644
--- a/rules/kernel.make
+++ b/rules/kernel.make
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ endif
 #
 KERNEL                 := linux-$(KERNEL_VERSION)
 KERNEL_MD5             := $(call remove_quotes,$(PTXCONF_KERNEL_MD5))
-KERNEL_SUFFIX          := tar.bz2
+KERNEL_SUFFIX          := tar.xz
 KERNEL_DIR             := $(KERNEL_BDIR)/$(KERNEL)
 KERNEL_CONFIG          := $(call remove_quotes, 
$(PTXDIST_PLATFORMCONFIGDIR)/$(PTXCONF_KERNEL_CONFIG))
 KERNEL_LICENSE         := GPLv2
-- 
1.7.9.6


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