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

[Olivier Blin]

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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Olivier Blin - blino