Re: [Buildroot] [PATCH] package/squashfs: bump to version 4.7

[Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot <buildroot@buildroot.org>]

On Tue, 24 Jun 2025 14:10:18 +0200
Fiona Klute <fiona.klute@gmx.de> wrote:

> Am 23.06.25 um 23:55 schrieb Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot:
> > See https://github.com/plougher/squashfs-tools/releases/tag/4.7 for
> > details:
> > 
> > 1. Mksquashfs now reads files in parallel from the input directories
> > 2. Rewritten and improved help system (Mksquashfs/Unsquashfs)
> > 3. New options for building reproducible filesystems (Mksquash/Sqfstar)
> > 4. Elimination of "fragment block stall" and -(not-)reproducible options
> > 5. Other improvements for Mksquashfs/Sqfstar
> > 6. Other improvements for Unsquashfs/Sqfscat
> > 7. New environment variable SQFS_CMDLINE (Mksquashfs/Unsquashfs)
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>  
> 
> Building fails with musl due to missing includes, upstream already has 
> patches for that (both need to be applied):
> 
> https://github.com/plougher/squashfs-tools/commit/b6e9f4b62cc3e762ceeddc0fc099f7d65f7b7361
> https://github.com/plougher/squashfs-tools/commit/05a895b3f996d1ac157d95b04980f5f047e7dbf7

Thanks for reporting this!

> I also noticed a bug that blocks excluding files >1407 KiB when building 
> a squashfs image, which broke building a certain (intentionally broken) 
> test image for me: https://github.com/plougher/squashfs-tools/issues/316
> It's easy enough to work around by filtering the tar archive though, so 
> I'm not sure if it needs to hold up the update.

That seems pretty annoying. Let's wait for this to be fixed as well.
Hopefully, they'll make a 4.7.1 release with the fixes.

Thanks again for the very useful feedback!

Thomas
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