Re: lzma with debian-live was: (Bug#553707: RFH: lzma -- future of Debian squashfs-lzma)

[Phillip Lougher <phillip@lougher.demon.co.uk>]

Michael Prokop <mika@debian.org> wrote:
>
> squashfs-lzma-tools 4.0-2:
>
>   http://deb.grml.org/pool/main/s/squashfs-lzma-tools/
>
> Yes. Kernel patches are available at:
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>   http://git.grml.org/?p=grml-kernel.git;a=tree;f=2.6.31;hb=HEAD

Mictlan

The grml LZMA patches are an unofficial fork of Squashfs, and generate
incompatible Squashfs 4.0 filesystems.  Just to be clear, if you use
their tools and kernel patches, any filesystems will unlikely to be
readable in the future.

In case you missed it, my detailed explanation is here:

http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org/msg711235.html

I have now added LZMA support to Squashfs.  An initial set of patches are available
in my squashfs-devel git tree.

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/pkl/squashfs-devel.git;a=summary

You'll need all the patches from commit 17d857be649a21ca90008c6dc425d849fa83db5c
(Linux 2.6.32-rc1  v2.6.32-rc1).

Squashfs-tools that can build LZMA 4.0 filesystems are in CVS on
squashfs.sourceforge.net.

For those who don't like git, and to make things easier, I have put a snapshot of
the above trees here http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/pkl

Phillip
--
Squashfs author and maintainer