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Moriah
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 Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 4:34 am Post subject: Is mksqwuashfs broken as of Ver. 3.0? SOLVED |
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I have been using mksquashfs to make compressed dvd's for backup for a couple of years now. Today I discovered that filesystems I create with mksquashfs can no longer be mounted, but older dvd's I made can still be mounted. I find the following information: | Code: | hilkiah dvds # emerge -s squashfs
Searching...
[ Results for search key : squashfs ]
[ Applications found : 1 ]
* sys-fs/squashfs-tools
Latest version available: 3.0
Latest version installed: 3.0
Size of files: 375 kB
Homepage: http://squashfs.sourceforge.net/
Description: Tool for creating compressed filesystem type squashfs
License: GPL-2
hilkiah dvds # ls -l `which mksquashfs`
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 73120 May 17 21:21 /usr/bin/mksquashfs
hilkiah dvds # |
I am wondering if a recent update (emerge --sync; emerge --update world) might have upgraded my mksquashfs so that it no longer works. Anybody else seen this problem?
Also, how do I see what older versions are available, so I can undo the update if need be? I am not a portage expert...
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Philantrop
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| Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 8:52 pm Post subject: |
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I can't help you with your real problem, I'm afraid but at least I can tell you how to find out about the available versions.
The fast method:
| Code: | | ls /usr/portage/sys-fs/squashfs-tools/*.ebuild |
The easiest method:
| Quote: | emerge app-portage/eix
update-eix
eix squashfs-tools |
eix is an extremely fast and powerful search tool for ebuilds using its own index. Its output for the squashfs-tools looks like this:
| Quote: | * sys-fs/squashfs-tools
Available versions: 2.2_p2 3.0
Installed: none
Homepage: http://squashfs.sourceforge.net/
Description: Tool for creating compressed filesystem type squashfs
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I claimed it's fast. Here's how long the search took with eix:
| Quote: | real 0m0.041s
user 0m0.024s
sys 0m0.016s
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And this was "emerge -s squashfs-tools":
| Quote: | real 0m22.156s
user 0m1.608s
sys 0m0.412s
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Moriah
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| Posted: Sat Jul 22, 2006 2:33 am Post subject: |
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I did some searching today, and discovered that 3.0 was released by the squashfs developers in March 2006, and deemed stable by the Gentoo team about May 10, 2006, but there was a little problem: it only worked with kernels 2.6.16 and above, and the kernel I am running is 2.6.15, so that is why it failed. It seems that the emerge --update system and emerge --update world operations do not check for kernel dependencies, so the userland tools were updated to 3.0 which does not work with my kernel. This seems like some kind of a portage bug, but I do not see how it can easily be fixed. 
Anyway, I put the following lines in my /etc/portage/package.mask file, and did a re-emerge of the squashfs tools, and that fixed it! 
| Code: | # squashfs is broken with 3.0 and 2.6.15-gentoo-r1 kernel !!!
# see http://www.mail-archive.com/gentoo-catalyst@lists.gentoo.org/msg00163.html
>=sys-fs/squashfs-tools-3.0 |
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| Posted: Sat Jul 22, 2006 12:36 pm Post subject: |
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Actually, there's no dependency for the kernel sources in the squashfs-tools ebuild at all. You should file a bug for that on Gentoo Bugzilla.
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| Posted: Sat Jul 22, 2006 3:58 pm Post subject: |
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No need to file a bug anymore. :-)
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