Bug 126992 – Stable sys-fs/squashfs-tools-3.0 w/ gentoo-sources 2.6.16

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2006-03-20 11:50:23 UTC]

Since gentoo-sources 2.6.16 has the new squashfs 3.0 patch, we need squashfs-tools stabilized at the same time.

[Comment 1 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2006-04-22 18:32:37 UTC]

I've marked x86 stable.  Other arches, please do the same when marking gentoo-sources 2.6.16 stable.

[Comment 2 Markus Rothe (RETIRED) 2006-04-22 23:07:31 UTC]

stable on ppc64

[Comment 3 Joe Jezak (RETIRED) 2006-04-30 19:52:55 UTC]

Marked ppc stable.

[Comment 4 Gustavo Zacarias (RETIRED) 2006-05-02 10:39:56 UTC]

sparc stable since 2.4.32-sparc-r4 has squash3 (and gs-2.6.16-r4+ went ~sparc).

[Comment 5 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2006-05-09 14:17:24 UTC]

Stable on amd64

[Comment 6 Alexandre Nuno Milheiro 2006-05-10 03:43:03 UTC]

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

[Comment 7 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2006-05-10 05:49:49 UTC]

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.

[Comment 8 Wulf Krueger (RETIRED) 2006-07-22 08:57:34 UTC]

According to http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-3464655.html#3464655 and http://www.mail-archive.com/[e-mail]/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?)

[Comment 9 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2006-07-24 08:06:26 UTC]

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.

[Comment 10 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2006-08-08 09:19:06 UTC]

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.

[Comment 11 Raúl Porcel (RETIRED) 2006-09-05 05:19:57 UTC]

hppa done

[Comment 12 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2007-02-14 00:30:48 UTC]

Alpha has a higher version stable now, so marking RESOLVED.