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

[Thierry Vignaud]

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...