kbuild: do not create intermediate *.tar for source tarballs
Since commit 05e96e96 ("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>
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