rpms/squashfs-tools: update to 4.7.5 #3

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sbelikov merged 1 commit from update-squashfs-tools-4.7.5 into niceos-5.2

2026-05-01 18:46:52 +03:00

sbelikov commented

2026-05-01 18:42:17 +03:00

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Update squashfs-tools from 4.7.4 to 4.7.5.

Upstream release notes describe this as a mostly bug-fix release. It adds a new -numeric-owner option and fixes several image-generation edge cases, including sparse-file corruption, pseudo-file handling, duplicate detection for large files, -max-depth, -offset with -stream, and related hierarchy/metadata issues.

Risk assessment: medium.
This is a patch-level update, but it is not a trivial metadata bump because several fixes affect SquashFS image creation behavior. For NiceOS we should treat this as manual review and run targeted build/runtime validation before merge.

Recommended checks:

rebuild the RPM with the new upstream tarball;
verify spec/source integrity and refresh any lookaside checksum data;
check downstream patches for conflicts;
run smoke tests for mksquashfs and sqfstar;
validate sparse-file, pseudo-file, -offset/-stream, -max-depth, and hardlink-to-symlink scenarios;
confirm scripts consuming stderr/stdout are not affected by the updated error-message behavior.

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Update squashfs-tools from 4.7.4 to 4.7.5. Upstream release notes describe this as a mostly bug-fix release. It adds a new -numeric-owner option and fixes several image-generation edge cases, including sparse-file corruption, pseudo-file handling, duplicate detection for large files, -max-depth, -offset with -stream, and related hierarchy/metadata issues. Risk assessment: medium. This is a patch-level update, but it is not a trivial metadata bump because several fixes affect SquashFS image creation behavior. For NiceOS we should treat this as manual review and run targeted build/runtime validation before merge. Recommended checks: - rebuild the RPM with the new upstream tarball; - verify spec/source integrity and refresh any lookaside checksum data; - check downstream patches for conflicts; - run smoke tests for mksquashfs and sqfstar; - validate sparse-file, pseudo-file, -offset/-stream, -max-depth, and hardlink-to-symlink scenarios; - confirm scripts consuming stderr/stdout are not affected by the updated error-message behavior. References: - https://github.com/plougher/squashfs-tools/releases/tag/4.7.5 - https://github.com/plougher/squashfs-tools/compare/4.7.4...4.7.5 - https://github.com/plougher/squashfs-tools/releases - https://github.com/plougher/squashfs-tools

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2026-05-01 18:42:17 +03:00