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

Thierry Vignaud thierry.vignaud at gmail.com
Thu Oct 18 22:31:17 CEST 2012


On 18 October 2012 22:21, Olivier Blin <mageia at blino.org> 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.


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