[Mageia-dev] [changelog] [RPM] cauldron core/release squashfs-tools-4.2-3.mga3

Colin Guthrie mageia at colin.guthr.ie
Fri Oct 19 11:47:18 CEST 2012


'Twas brillig, and Olivier Blin at 18/10/12 23:06 did gyre and gimble:
> Thierry Vignaud <thierry.vignaud at gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> On 18 October 2012 22:31, Thierry Vignaud <thierry.vignaud at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> No it's not useless.
>>>> squashfs3-tools is still useful to generate squashfs3 images for other
>>>> systems with older kernels, and this is still used for some embedded
>>>> devices, I use this at work.
>>>
>>> Humm....
>>> Kernel didn't support squashfs3 for years when we were still
>>> working at mdv...
>>> No Mageia release ever had support for reading squashfs3 in
>>> its kernel.
>>> But you can still generate images for such older systems.
>>> I won't oppose a revert.
>>
>> Though I would question developing for a target using squashfs3
>> whereas we switched to v4 in 2009 when it was officially included in
>> kernel...
>> That means targeting 2.6.28 at most...
> 
> Then you feel my daily pain.

:)


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