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

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

[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>
---
 package/squashfs/squashfs.hash | 4 ++--
 package/squashfs/squashfs.mk   | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/package/squashfs/squashfs.hash b/package/squashfs/squashfs.hash
index c921d638bb..5593502836 100644
--- a/package/squashfs/squashfs.hash
+++ b/package/squashfs/squashfs.hash
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-# Locally computed
-sha256  94201754b36121a9f022a190c75f718441df15402df32c2b520ca331a107511c  squashfs-tools-4.6.1.tar.gz
+# From https://github.com/plougher/squashfs-tools/releases/tag/4.7
+sha256  f1605ef720aa0b23939a49ef4491f6e734333ccc4bda4324d330da647e105328  squashfs-tools-4.7.tar.gz
 
 # License files
 sha256  8177f97513213526df2cf6184d8ff986c675afb514d4e68a404010521b880643  COPYING
diff --git a/package/squashfs/squashfs.mk b/package/squashfs/squashfs.mk
index f2cb0ab25e..f3c72e068b 100644
--- a/package/squashfs/squashfs.mk
+++ b/package/squashfs/squashfs.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-SQUASHFS_VERSION = 4.6.1
+SQUASHFS_VERSION = 4.7
 SQUASHFS_SOURCE = squashfs-tools-$(SQUASHFS_VERSION).tar.gz
 SQUASHFS_SITE = https://github.com/plougher/squashfs-tools/releases/download/$(SQUASHFS_VERSION)
 SQUASHFS_LICENSE = GPL-2.0+
-- 
2.49.0

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

[Fiona Klute via buildroot]

Hi Thomas,

thanks for looking at this update!

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

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.

Best regards,
Fiona

> ---
>   package/squashfs/squashfs.hash | 4 ++--
>   package/squashfs/squashfs.mk   | 2 +-
>   2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/package/squashfs/squashfs.hash b/package/squashfs/squashfs.hash
> index c921d638bb..5593502836 100644
> --- a/package/squashfs/squashfs.hash
> +++ b/package/squashfs/squashfs.hash
> @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
> -# Locally computed
> -sha256  94201754b36121a9f022a190c75f718441df15402df32c2b520ca331a107511c  squashfs-tools-4.6.1.tar.gz
> +# From https://github.com/plougher/squashfs-tools/releases/tag/4.7
> +sha256  f1605ef720aa0b23939a49ef4491f6e734333ccc4bda4324d330da647e105328  squashfs-tools-4.7.tar.gz
>   
>   # License files
>   sha256  8177f97513213526df2cf6184d8ff986c675afb514d4e68a404010521b880643  COPYING
> diff --git a/package/squashfs/squashfs.mk b/package/squashfs/squashfs.mk
> index f2cb0ab25e..f3c72e068b 100644
> --- a/package/squashfs/squashfs.mk
> +++ b/package/squashfs/squashfs.mk
> @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
>   #
>   ################################################################################
>   
> -SQUASHFS_VERSION = 4.6.1
> +SQUASHFS_VERSION = 4.7
>   SQUASHFS_SOURCE = squashfs-tools-$(SQUASHFS_VERSION).tar.gz
>   SQUASHFS_SITE = https://github.com/plougher/squashfs-tools/releases/download/$(SQUASHFS_VERSION)
>   SQUASHFS_LICENSE = GPL-2.0+

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

[Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot]

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

[Peter Korsgaard]

>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot <buildroot@buildroot.org> writes:

 > 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)

I didn't look at the code, but is this something we could/should be
using for BR2_REPRODUCIBLE builds?

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

[Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot]

On Mon, 30 Jun 2025 16:25:03 +0200
Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com> wrote:

>  > 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)  
> 
> I didn't look at the code, but is this something we could/should be
> using for BR2_REPRODUCIBLE builds?

So I did have a (admittedly very) quick look, and with
BR2_REPRODUCIBLE=y and our current logic in Buildroot, we already had
files date/time that were clearly "in the past" compared to the build,
I believe somehow set to SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH. So it didn't feel like
using those new options was really needed. But as you can see from the
patch send time, it was 11:55 PM, I wanted to finish my Buildroot
evening, and since I couldn't find an obvious reason to use those new
options, I decided to send just the version bump as-is.

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

[Peter Korsgaard]

>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com> writes:

 > On Mon, 30 Jun 2025 16:25:03 +0200
 > Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com> wrote:

 >> > 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)  
 >> 
 >> I didn't look at the code, but is this something we could/should be
 >> using for BR2_REPRODUCIBLE builds?

 > So I did have a (admittedly very) quick look, and with
 > BR2_REPRODUCIBLE=y and our current logic in Buildroot, we already had
 > files date/time that were clearly "in the past" compared to the build,
 > I believe somehow set to SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH. So it didn't feel like
 > using those new options was really needed. But as you can see from the
 > patch send time, it was 11:55 PM, I wanted to finish my Buildroot
 > evening, and since I couldn't find an obvious reason to use those new
 > options, I decided to send just the version bump as-is.

Heh, ok ;) I believe a squashfs file system also has a "creation time"
timestamp, but maybe we are also handling that already?

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