| Summary: | Stable sys-fs/squashfs-tools-3.0 w/ gentoo-sources 2.6.16 | ||
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| Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) <wolf31o2> |
| Component: | New packages | Assignee: | Gentoo LiveCD Package Maintainers <livecd> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | nunomilheiro, philantrop |
| Priority: | High | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
| Bug Depends on: | 126972 | ||
| Bug Blocks: | 127003 | ||
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Description
Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED)
2006-03-20 11:50:23 UTC
I've marked x86 stable. Other arches, please do the same when marking gentoo-sources 2.6.16 stable. stable on ppc64 Marked ppc stable. sparc stable since 2.4.32-sparc-r4 has squash3 (and gs-2.6.16-r4+ went ~sparc). Stable on amd64 It seems that ther are some problems with the squashfs 3.0 As we can see in squashfs bugs page : http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1454647&group_id=63835&atid=505341 In three of my gentoo system where I use squashfs with unionfs to save space and I/O, i experience the same bug with gentoo-sources-2.6.16-r3 so I reverted to squashfs 2.1 I have built *several* CD images on multiple architectures now, using squashfs 3.0 and squashfs-tools 3.0 and had no issues. Perhaps some more information (preferably on a separate bug) would be in order, since I cannot reproduce this on any platform I've tested it on so far. According to http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-3464655.html#3464655 and http://www.mail-archive.com/gentoo-catalyst@lists.gentoo.org/msg00163.html sys-fs/squashfs-tools-3.0 need a kernel >= 2.6.16. Shouldn't there be an appropriate RDEPEND in the ebuild before stablising it? (Yes, I've read the summary but I thought this should have been implemented before the stabilisation request?) Nope. See, squashfs-tools doesn't require *any* kernel version to run. It will happily build a squashfs image no matter what your kernel version happens to be. In fact, it'll even create an image if your kernel doesn't have squashfs support. Now, being able to decompress that image in the kernel is completely independent of this bug, and is what you seem to be pointing to as a problem. Anyway, the dependencies are correct. Well, arm and ia64 are already stable. Alpha/HPPA, please test this. All you need to do is verify that it can create a proper squashfs image, since this is just the userland portion. hppa done Alpha has a higher version stable now, so marking RESOLVED. |