Re: [OE-core] [PATCH] Add new recipe for squashfs-tools-ng

Luca Bocassi
2020-10-22T09:13:04Z

On Wed, 2020-10-21 at 19:21 -0700, Khem Raj wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 12:02 PM Richard Purdie
> <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2020-10-21 at 16:58 +0100, Luca Bocassi wrote:
> > > From: Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@microsoft.com>
> > >
> > > The main difference with squashfs-tools is the availability
> > > of a shared library and a programmatic interface, rather
> > > than just command-line tools.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@microsoft.com>
> > > ---
> > > .../squashfs-tools-ng_git.bb | 37
> > > +++++++++++++++++++
> > > 1 file changed, 37 insertions(+)
> > > create mode 100644 meta/recipes-devtools/squashfs-tools-ng/squashfs-
> > > tools-ng_git.bb
> >
> > Should we be switching over to squashfs-tools-ng and removing squashfs-
> > tools? I'm not sure we want to support both versions?
>
> I am not sure if we want to switch to ng yet as on option its good to
> have. Perhaps in meta-oe or some other place.

Yeah the command line interface is not a one-to-one mapping, so
probably best to keep both around.

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Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi