diff --git a/srcpkgs/linux3.9/template b/srcpkgs/linux3.9/template
index 2ccd6071a43..f530ec47c73 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/linux3.9/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/linux3.9/template
@@ -179,9 +179,9 @@ do_install() {
 		rm -rf ${hdrdest}/arch/${arch}
 	done
 
-	# Compress all modules with gz to save a few MBs.
-	msg_normal "$pkgver: compressing kernel modules with gz, please wait...\n"
-	find ${DESTDIR} -name '*.ko' -exec gz -9 {} \;
+	# Compress all modules with gzip to save a few MBs.
+	msg_normal "$pkgver: compressing kernel modules with gzip, please wait...\n"
+	find ${DESTDIR} -name '*.ko' -exec gzip -9 {} \;
 
 	# ... and run depmod again.
 	depmod -b ${DESTDIR}/usr -F System.map ${_kernver}