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

Fri Oct 19 11:47:18 CEST 2012

'Twas brillig, and Olivier Blin at 18/10/12 23:06 did gyre and gimble:
+> 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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