[PATCH 1/1] git: use xz compressed archive for download

Christian Hesse list at eworm.de
Tue Nov 20 23:55:03 CET 2018


From: Christian Hesse <mail at eworm.de>

Upstream will stop providing gz compressed source tarballs [0], so stop
using them.

[0] https://lists.zx2c4.com/pipermail/cgit/2018-November/004254.html

Signed-off-by: Christian Hesse <mail at eworm.de>
---
 Makefile | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 1c49b50..4aaf2dc 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ pdfdir = $(docdir)
 mandir = $(prefix)/share/man
 SHA1_HEADER = <openssl/sha.h>
 GIT_VER = 2.19.1
-GIT_URL = https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-$(GIT_VER).tar.gz
+GIT_URL = https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-$(GIT_VER).tar.xz
 INSTALL = install
 COPYTREE = cp -r
 MAN5_TXT = $(wildcard *.5.txt)
@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ clean-doc:
 	$(RM) cgitrc.5 cgitrc.5.html cgitrc.5.pdf cgitrc.5.xml cgitrc.5.fo
 
 get-git:
-	curl -L $(GIT_URL) | tar -xzf - && rm -rf git && mv git-$(GIT_VER) git
+	curl -L $(GIT_URL) | tar -xJf - && rm -rf git && mv git-$(GIT_VER) git
 
 tags:
 	$(QUIET_TAGS)find . -name '*.[ch]' | xargs ctags


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