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Since commit 05e96e96a315 ("kbuild: use git-archive for source package
creation"), a source tarball is created in two steps; create *.tar file
then compress it. I split the compression as a separate rule because I
just thought 'git archive' supported only gzip.
For other compression algorithms, I could pipe the two commands:
$ git archive HEAD | xz > linux.tar.xz
I read git-archive(1) carefully, and I realized GIT had provided a
more elegant way:
$ git -c tar.tar.xz.command=xz archive -o linux.tar.xz HEAD
This commit uses 'tar.tar.*.command' configuration to specify the
compression backend so we can compress a source tarball on-the-fly.
GIT commit 767cf4579f0e ("archive: implement configurable tar filters")
is more than a decade old, so it should be available on almost all build
environments.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.