change package tarball compression to xz whenever possible

[Peter: leave change xz tarball format to not end up with circular deps] Signed-off-by: Jerzy Grzegorek <jerzy.grzegorek@trzebnica.net> Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
2026-05-20 11:24:29 -07:00 · 2013-09-06 08:14:15 +02:00
parent 159c692cd2
commit 62146ea3ad
60 changed files with 65 additions and 35 deletions
@@ -32,9 +32,9 @@ package, with an example :

 On line 7, we declare the version of the package.

-On line 8 and 9, we declare the name of the tarball and the location
-of the tarball on the Web. Buildroot will automatically download the
-tarball from this location.
+On line 8 and 9, we declare the name of the tarball (xz-ed tarball recommended)
+and the location of the tarball on the Web. Buildroot will automatically
+download the tarball from this location.

 On line 10, we tell Buildroot to install the package to the staging
 directory. The staging directory, located in +output/staging/+
@@ -32,9 +32,9 @@ with an example :

 On line 7, we declare the version of the package.

-On line 8 and 9, we declare the name of the tarball and the location
-of the tarball on the Web. Buildroot will automatically download the
-tarball from this location.
+On line 8 and 9, we declare the name of the tarball (xz-ed tarball recommended)
+and the location of the tarball on the Web. Buildroot will automatically
+download the tarball from this location.

 On line 10, we tell Buildroot to install the package to the staging
 directory. The staging directory, located in +output/staging/+
@@ -62,8 +62,8 @@ system is based on hand-written Makefiles or shell scripts.

 The Makefile begins on line 7 to 11 with metadata information: the
 version of the package (+LIBFOO_VERSION+), the name of the
-tarball containing the package (+LIBFOO_SOURCE+) the
-Internet location at which the tarball can be downloaded from
+tarball containing the package (+LIBFOO_SOURCE+) (xz-ed tarball recommended)
+the Internet location at which the tarball can be downloaded from
 (+LIBFOO_SITE+), the license (+LIBFOO_LICENSE+) and file with the
 license text (+LIBFOO_LICENSE_FILES+). All variables must start with
 the same prefix, +LIBFOO_+ in this case. This prefix is always the
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 ################################################################################

 AUTOCONF_VERSION = 2.69
+AUTOCONF_SOURCE = autoconf-$(AUTOCONF_VERSION).tar.xz
 AUTOCONF_SITE = $(BR2_GNU_MIRROR)/autoconf

 AUTOCONF_LICENSE = GPLv3+ with exceptions
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 ################################################################################

 AUTOMAKE_VERSION = 1.11.6
+AUTOMAKE_SOURCE = automake-$(AUTOMAKE_VERSION).tar.xz
 AUTOMAKE_SITE = $(BR2_GNU_MIRROR)/automake
 AUTOMAKE_LICENSE = GPLv2+
 AUTOMAKE_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 ################################################################################

 BISON_VERSION = 2.7.1
+BISON_SOURCE = bison-$(BISON_VERSION).tar.xz
 BISON_SITE = $(BR2_GNU_MIRROR)/bison
 BISON_LICENSE = GPLv3+
 BISON_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 ################################################################################

 BLUEZ_UTILS_VERSION = 4.101
-BLUEZ_UTILS_SOURCE = bluez-$(BLUEZ_UTILS_VERSION).tar.gz
+BLUEZ_UTILS_SOURCE = bluez-$(BLUEZ_UTILS_VERSION).tar.xz
 BLUEZ_UTILS_SITE = $(BR2_KERNEL_MIRROR)/linux/bluetooth
 BLUEZ_UTILS_INSTALL_STAGING = YES
 BLUEZ_UTILS_DEPENDENCIES = dbus libglib2
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@

 CCACHE_VERSION = 3.1.8
 CCACHE_SITE    = http://samba.org/ftp/ccache
-CCACHE_SOURCE  = ccache-$(CCACHE_VERSION).tar.bz2
+CCACHE_SOURCE  = ccache-$(CCACHE_VERSION).tar.xz
 CCACHE_LICENSE = GPLv3+, others
 CCACHE_LICENSE_FILES = LICENSE.txt GPL-3.0.txt

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 ################################################################################

 CONNMAN_VERSION = 1.12
+CONNMAN_SOURCE = connman-$(CONNMAN_VERSION).tar.xz
 CONNMAN_SITE = $(BR2_KERNEL_MIRROR)/linux/network/connman/
 CONNMAN_DEPENDENCIES = libglib2 dbus iptables gnutls
 CONNMAN_INSTALL_STAGING = YES
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 ################################################################################

 CPULOAD_VERSION = v0.3
+CPULOAD_SOURCE = cpuload-$(CPULOAD_VERSION).tar.xz
 CPULOAD_SITE = http://github.com/kelvincheung/cpuload/tarball/$(CPULOAD_VERSION)
 CPULOAD_LICENSE = GPLv2
 CPULOAD_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 ################################################################################

 DIFFUTILS_VERSION = 3.2
+DIFFUTILS_SOURCE = diffutils-$(DIFFUTILS_VERSION).tar.xz
 DIFFUTILS_SITE = $(BR2_GNU_MIRROR)/diffutils
 DIFFUTILS_DEPENDENCIES = $(if $(BR2_NEEDS_GETTEXT_IF_LOCALE),gettext)
 DIFFUTILS_LICENSE = GPLv3+
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 ################################################################################

 DNSMASQ_VERSION = 2.66
+DNSMASQ_SOURCE = dnsmasq-$(DNSMASQ_VERSION).tar.xz
 DNSMASQ_SITE = http://thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq
 DNSMASQ_MAKE_ENV = $(TARGET_MAKE_ENV) CC="$(TARGET_CC)"
 DNSMASQ_MAKE_OPT = COPTS="$(DNSMASQ_COPTS)" PREFIX=/usr CFLAGS="$(TARGET_CFLAGS)"
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 ################################################################################

 DOSFSTOOLS_VERSION = 3.0.20
+DOSFSTOOLS_SOURCE = dosfstools-$(DOSFSTOOLS_VERSION).tar.xz
 DOSFSTOOLS_SITE = http://daniel-baumann.ch/files/software/dosfstools
 DOSFSTOOLS_LICENSE = GPLv3+
 DOSFSTOOLS_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 ################################################################################

 DROPWATCH_VERSION = 1.4
-DROPWATCH_SOURCE = dropwatch-$(DROPWATCH_VERSION).tar.bz2
+DROPWATCH_SOURCE = dropwatch-$(DROPWATCH_VERSION).tar.xz
 DROPWATCH_SITE = https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/dropwatch.git/snapshot/
 DROPWATCH_DEPENDENCIES = binutils libnl readline host-pkgconf
 DROPWATCH_LICENSE = GPLv2
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 ################################################################################

 ETHTOOL_VERSION = 3.10
+ETHTOOL_SOURCE = ethtool-$(ETHTOOL_VERSION).tar.xz
 ETHTOOL_SITE = $(BR2_KERNEL_MIRROR)/software/network/ethtool
 ETHTOOL_LICENSE = GPLv2
 ETHTOOL_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 ################################################################################

 FB_TEST_APP_VERSION = v1.0.0
+FB_TEST_APP_SOURCE = fb-test-app-$(FB_TEST_APP_VERSION).tar.xz
 FB_TEST_APP_SITE = http://github.com/prpplague/fb-test-app/tarball/$(FB_TEST_APP_VERSION)
 FB_TEST_APP_LICENSE = GPLv2
 FB_TEST_APP_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 ################################################################################

 GAWK_VERSION = 4.1.0
+GAWK_SOURCE = gawk-$(GAWK_VERSION).tar.xz
 GAWK_SITE = $(BR2_GNU_MIRROR)/gawk
 GAWK_DEPENDENCIES = host-gawk $(if $(BR2_PACKAGE_MPFR),mpfr)
 GAWK_LICENSE = GPLv3+
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@

 GMP_VERSION = 5.1.2
 GMP_SITE = ftp://ftp.gmplib.org/pub/gmp-$(GMP_VERSION)
-GMP_SOURCE = gmp-$(GMP_VERSION).tar.bz2
+GMP_SOURCE = gmp-$(GMP_VERSION).tar.xz
 GMP_INSTALL_STAGING = YES
 GMP_LICENSE = LGPLv3+
 GMP_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING.LIB
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 ################################################################################

 GST_PLUGINS_BAD_VERSION = 0.10.23
-GST_PLUGINS_BAD_SOURCE = gst-plugins-bad-$(GST_PLUGINS_BAD_VERSION).tar.bz2
+GST_PLUGINS_BAD_SOURCE = gst-plugins-bad-$(GST_PLUGINS_BAD_VERSION).tar.xz
 GST_PLUGINS_BAD_SITE = http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-bad

 GST_PLUGINS_BAD_CONF_OPT = \
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 ################################################################################

 GST_PLUGINS_BASE_VERSION = 0.10.36
-GST_PLUGINS_BASE_SOURCE = gst-plugins-base-$(GST_PLUGINS_BASE_VERSION).tar.bz2
+GST_PLUGINS_BASE_SOURCE = gst-plugins-base-$(GST_PLUGINS_BASE_VERSION).tar.xz
 GST_PLUGINS_BASE_SITE = http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-base
 GST_PLUGINS_BASE_INSTALL_STAGING = YES

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