1 files changed, 13 insertions, 16 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/package/buildtar b/scripts/package/buildtar
index 60dd836a0214..51f947118256 100755
--- a/scripts/package/buildtar
+++ b/scripts/package/buildtar
@@ -24,20 +24,19 @@ tarball="${objtree}/linux-${KERNELRELEASE}-${ARCH}.tar"
 #
 case "${1}" in
         tar-pkg)
-                compress="cat"
-                file_ext=""
+                opts=
                 ;;
         targz-pkg)
-                compress="gzip"
-                file_ext=".gz"
+                opts=--gzip
+                tarball=${tarball}.gz
                 ;;
         tarbz2-pkg)
-                compress="bzip2"
-                file_ext=".bz2"
+                opts=--bzip2
+                tarball=${tarball}.bz2
                 ;;
         tarxz-pkg)
-                compress="xz"
-                file_ext=".xz"
+                opts=--xz
+                tarball=${tarball}.xz
                 ;;
         *)
                 echo "Unknown tarball target \"${1}\" requested, please add it to ${0}." >&2
@@ -125,14 +124,12 @@ esac
 #
 # Create the tarball
 #
-(
-        opts=
-        if tar --owner=root --group=root --help >/dev/null 2>&1; then
-                opts="--owner=root --group=root"
-        fi
-        tar cf - -C "$tmpdir" $dirs $opts | ${compress} > "${tarball}${file_ext}"
-)
+if tar --owner=root --group=root --help >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+        opts="$opts --owner=root --group=root"
+fi
+
+tar cf $tarball -C $tmpdir $opts $dirs
 
-echo "Tarball successfully created in ${tarball}${file_ext}"
+echo "Tarball successfully created in $tarball"
 
 exit 0