Tool chain instructions

[Christian Helmuth]

Thanks for the hint,

I updated the Genode repo accordingly. The website update is pending.

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On Fri, Jun 02, 2017 at 02:24:53PM +0200, Johannes Kliemann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> with the new toolchain, the compression has changed from bzip2 to xz.
> The toolchain instructions [1] still state to use
> 
> > sudo tar xPfj genode-toolchain-<version>-<arch>.tar.bz2
> 
> This doesn't work anymore as `-j` requires bzip2 and fails with the
> following error:
> 
> > bzip2: (stdin) is not a bzip2 file.
> > tar: Child returned status 2
> > tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
> 
> A fix would be omitting `-j`, resulting in
> 
> > sudo tar xPf genode-toolchain-<version>-<arch>.tar.xz
> 
> This is also safe since current versions of tar extract bzip2 without
> the usage of `-j`.
> 
> Regards,
> JK
> 
> [1]: https://genode.org/download/tool-chain
> 
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