Re: squashfs-tools: Add -offset option to skip n bytes at the start of the file

From: Ritesh Raj Sarraf
Date: Tue Jan 31 2017 - 05:10:40 EST


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Hello Phillip,

Good to hear from you. When the emails bounced, I was wondering if you are still
active or not.

On Tue, 2017-01-31 at 02:57 +0000, Phillip Lougher wrote:
>
> The repo at kernel.org is the official repo.ÂÂIt hasn't been updated in a
> while
> simply because the tools are considered stable, and I have not had a burning
> desire to add new features for a while.
>

Cool. Thanks.

> >
> > Can you please review/include the attached patch into squashfs-tools ?
> > The mentioned changes are needed by AppImageKit.
> >
>
> Well from a quick look at the attached patches, I see no reason
> not to pull them.
>
> I'll have a look over at github because is the first I've seen of these
> patches, and I'll see if I can pull them from there.
>
> If not, I'll ask the author to send them to me at this address.
>

Great. The author (probono AT puredarwin.org) is copied on this email.

> Phillip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx is dead because my ISP arbitrarily ceased
> email support sometime ago (and I'd had that email for 20 years).
> It would appear phillip@squashfs,org.uk is still redirected to that,
> and I'll fix that.
>

I used to maintain my own mail server but eventually gave up (amount of spam
kept the machine alive all the while) and switched to GApps.


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Ritesh Raj Sarraf
RESEARCHUT - http://www.researchut.com
"Necessity is the mother of invention."
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