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

Khem Raj
2020-10-22T02:21:42Z

On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 12:02 PM Richard Purdie
<richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
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> 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.

>
> Cheers,
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> Richard
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