Package: squashfs-tools Version: 1:4.4-1 Severity: wishlist Is it possible to write something that reads a tarball from stdin, and writes a squashfs to stdout?
The context is https://bugs.debian.org/942098 where tar is used in a pipeline, so replacing it with mksquashfs is fiddly. One suggestion is a hypothetical "tar2squashfs" program. Is such a program even possible? If so, how hard is it to implement? [I initially tried to send this to nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.squashfs.devel, but that particular mailing list is read-only in gmane. So I'm dumping it here because otherwise I'll forget about it entirely. Sorry!] -- System Information: Debian Release: 10.1 APT prefers stable APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-6-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages squashfs-tools depends on: ii libc6 2.28-10 ii liblz4-1 1.8.3-1 ii liblzma5 5.2.4-1 ii liblzo2-2 2.10-0.1 ii libzstd1 1.3.8+dfsg-3 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.11.dfsg-1 squashfs-tools recommends no packages. squashfs-tools suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
