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[PATCH] gnu: Add cramfs-tools.

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From: Vincent Legoll <vincent.legoll <at> gmail.com>
To: guix-patches <at> gnu.org
Subject: [PATCH] gnu: Add cramfs-tools.
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2020 23:34:03 +0100

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This patch adds the updated cramfs-tools
suite from Nicolas Pitre.

This version has additional features
implemented over the 1.1 version still
packaged in some other distros, which
is unmaintained (available on
https://sourceforge.net/projects/cramfs/)

It handles uncompressed blocks, random
block placement and XiP.

Lightly tested, by loop-mounting a tiny (4kB)
cramfs in a file, worked fine.

-- 
Vincent Legoll

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Message #8 received at 40246 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Vincent Legoll <vincent.legoll <at> gmail.com>
To: 40246 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: gnu: Add cramfs-tools
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2020 00:22:57 +0100

This was obsoleted, but then resurrected later...

From wikikpedia
[...]
In 2013, Linux maintainers indicated that cramfs was made obsolete by
squashfs,[1] but the file system got rehabilitated in 2017 for use in
low-memory devices where using squashfs may not be viable.
[...]

And also the guix kernel has support for it...
So why not ?

-- 
Vincent Legoll

Message #11 received at 40246 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Vincent Legoll <vincent.legoll <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 40246 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [bug#40246] [PATCH] gnu: Add cramfs-tools.
Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2020 23:22:46 +0200

Hi Vincent,

Vincent Legoll <vincent.legoll <at> gmail.com> skribis:

> From ff79a4b2d798bba222ac502a7aa1f7ef0a97e249 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Vincent Legoll <vincent.legoll <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2020 23:12:53 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] gnu: Add cramfs-tools.
>
> * gnu/packages/linux.scm (cramfs-tools): New variable.

[...]

> +    (name "cramfs-tools")
> +    (version "2.1")
> +    (source (origin
> +              (method url-fetch)
> +              (uri (string-append
> +                    "https://github.com/npitre/cramfs-tools/archive/v"

As reported by ‘guix lint’, please don’t refer to a generated tarball.

Instead you can use a hosted “hand-crafted” tarball if there’s one or,
more likely, ‘git-fetch’.

> +    (synopsis "Tools to manage Cramfs filesystems")
> +    (description "Cramfs is a Linux filesystem designed to be simple, small,
> +and to compress things well.  It is used on a number of embedded systems and
> +small devices.  This version has additional features such as uncompressed
> +blocks and random block placement.")

Could you write “file systems” (two words)?  This is by convention in
GNU and Guix.

Thanks in advance!

Ludo’.

Message #14 received at 40246 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Vincent Legoll <vincent.legoll <at> gmail.com>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 40246 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [bug#40246] [PATCH] gnu: Add cramfs-tools.
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2020 23:46:50 +0200

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Hello Ludovic,

On Wed, Apr 1, 2020 at 11:22 PM Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> wrote:
> As reported by ‘guix lint’, please don’t refer to a generated tarball.
>
> Instead you can use a hosted “hand-crafted” tarball if there’s one or,
> more likely, ‘git-fetch’.
>
[...]
>
> Could you write “file systems” (two words)?  This is by convention in
> GNU and Guix.

Here it is

-- 
Vincent Legoll

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Message #19 received at 40246-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Vincent Legoll <vincent.legoll <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 40246-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [bug#40246] [PATCH] gnu: Add cramfs-tools.
Date: Thu, 02 Apr 2020 10:01:31 +0200

Hi Vincent,

Vincent Legoll <vincent.legoll <at> gmail.com> skribis:

> From d8c3ae54d42d662f7af6cb6740b6ae16455d9073 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Vincent Legoll <vincent.legoll <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2020 23:12:53 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] gnu: Add cramfs-tools.
>
> * gnu/packages/linux.scm (cramfs-tools): New variable.

Applied!

> +    (license license:gpl2)))

I changed that to ‘gpl2+’ because I noticed that source file headers
carry the “or any later version” wording.

Thanks,
Ludo’.

Message #22 received at 40246-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Vincent Legoll <vincent.legoll <at> gmail.com>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 40246-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [bug#40246] [PATCH] gnu: Add cramfs-tools.
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2020 10:03:07 +0200

Thanks

-- 
Vincent Legoll

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