Bug 1287802

Summary:	Review Request: make_ext4fs - Create reproducible ext4 images
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Wojtek Porczyk <woju>
Component:	Package Review	Assignee:	Nobody's working on this, feel free to take it <nobody>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Wojtek Porczyk 2015-12-02 17:34:44 UTC

Spec URL: http://ftp.qubes-os.org/~woju/rpm/make_ext4fs-0-1.spec
SRPM URL: http://ftp.qubes-os.org/~woju/rpm/make_ext4fs-0-1.src.rpm
Description:
This is a tool to create ext4 images. It requires no root access. The images can be build reproducibly.

The tool originated at Google (Android) and was stolen and patched by OpenWRT.

Fedora Account System Username: (none)

Comment 1 Michael S. 2015-12-03 10:35:53 UTC

Hi

the spec url is 404.

Comment 2 Wojtek Porczyk 2015-12-03 10:39:17 UTC

Spec URL: http://ftp.qubes-os.org/~woju/rpm/make_ext4fs.spec

Thank you, that was manual editing.

Comment 3 Michael Schwendt 2015-12-16 21:33:19 UTC

> Summary:	Reproducible ext4 image creator

> %description
> Tool to create reproducible ext4 image files.

This description doesn't expand on the summary. Could it be extended a bit to explain what problem this tool tries to solve? What are its key features? What makes these image files "reproducible" compared with images created with e.g. "dd"?

Btw, there is no documentation included either.

Comment 4 Greg Swift 2016-09-23 18:25:54 UTC

fwiw: doesnt build in mock on f22 because it is missing a buildrequires for zlib-devel

Comment 5 Package Review 2020-07-10 00:54:08 UTC

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Comment 6 Wojtek Porczyk 2020-07-16 10:54:06 UTC

Hi,

I don't work on this anymore, feel free to close or take over.

Comment 7 Fabio Valentini 2020-07-16 12:22:56 UTC

It's been five years, so if anybody wants to work on this package now they should open a new review request.