Subject: [bug#31592] [PATCH 1/4] gnu: Add squashfs-tools-next.

From: Ricardo Wurmus <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 27 May 2018 20:11:05 +0200

Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]> writes:

>> +;; We need this for building squashfs images with symlinks.
>> +(define-public squashfs-tools-next
>> +  (let ((commit "fb33dfc32b131a1162dcf0e35bd88254ae10e265")
>> +        (revision "1"))
>
> Does it mean that the current version does not support symlinks in the
> image?

Yes, the latest release does not support pseudo file specs for symbolic
links.

>> +    (package (inherit squashfs-tools)
>> +      (name "squashfs-tools-next")
>> +      (version (string-append "4.3-" revision (string-take commit 7)))
>
> Nitpick: you can use (git-version …) here.

Right!  I keep forgetting this.

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Ricardo