Bug 74537 – (kernel) Squashfs patch needs updating to 2.1

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2004-12-15 11:41:17 UTC]

I have added squashfs-tools 2.1 into portage.  This version is backwards compatable with the 2.0 patch, so we won't have any breakage.  For 2005.0, I would like to use version 2.1 for our squashfs images, which means that the kernel patches need to be updated.

Specifically, gentoo(-dev)-sources and hardened(-dev)-sources will need to be updated, along with sparc-sources.

[Comment 1 Daniel Drake (RETIRED) 2004-12-15 12:02:08 UTC]

gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.10 tree already contains this patch. I'm trying to keep changes in the 2.6.9 branch to a minimum right now. If you require the newer patch any earlier than 2.6.10 then let me know.

[Comment 2 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2004-12-15 12:14:26 UTC]

Sweet... really I don't *need* it until the first part of the year.  I would like to get it into a stable kernel as soon as possible so we can do more testing on it, however, but I'm patient (for now... :P) and can wait.

[Comment 3 Daniel Drake (RETIRED) 2004-12-15 12:20:00 UTC]

btw following a recent discussion on the linux kernel list, it looks like squashfs will be sent in to be applied upstream soon. Greg already offered his assistance and I will also mail the author and see if there is anything I can do.

[Comment 4 solar (RETIRED) 2004-12-15 13:30:08 UTC]

Is hardened(-dev)-sources out of date in this respect?
I thought we established we were 2.0 compat already.

[Comment 5 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2004-12-15 13:47:31 UTC]

hardened(-dev)-sources should be upgraded to the 2.1 patch, but since the 2.1 tools are capable of producing a 2.0 filesystem, it isn't an emergency by any means.

What will happen, though, is that catalyst will not call mksquashfs with the required -2.0 to make a 2.0 filesystem, which means it will try to create a 2.1 filesystem if left unmodified.  I am not sure how to work around this, but will see if I can have catalyst detect which version should be used.

I am mostly sending this as a warning that this should probably be upgraded sometime in the 3 weeks or so, to make it into 2005.0's release schedule.

[Comment 6 Daniel Drake (RETIRED) 2005-01-09 17:30:04 UTC]

gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.10-r4 is now stable. Reassigning to hardened, have not checked if they have updated their patch already though.

[Comment 7 Adam Mondl (RETIRED) 2005-01-11 13:55:21 UTC]

Squashfs patch updated to 2.1 in ~x86 hardened-dev-sources-2.6.10.  Hardened-sources still needs to be updated.

[Comment 8 Adam Mondl (RETIRED) 2005-01-13 19:13:06 UTC]

Squashfs 2.1 added to ~x86 hardened-sources-2.4.28-r2

[Comment 9 Adam Mondl (RETIRED) 2005-01-17 16:37:49 UTC]

Both hardened kernels now stable.