Bug 481218 - squashfs-tools cannot be run on big-endian systems
Summary: squashfs-tools cannot be run on big-endian systems
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: squashfs-tools
Version: rawhide
Hardware: powerpc
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Jeremy Katz
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: F11Beta, F11BetaBlocker
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Reported: 2009-01-22 20:33 UTC by Josh Boyer
Modified: 2009-01-28 20:58 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2009-01-28 20:58:08 UTC
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Description Josh Boyer 2009-01-22 20:33:54 UTC 
Description of problem:

With the update to the version of squashfs-tools that support the squasfs 4 disk layout, mksquashfs fails to run on big-endian systems due to a hard coded assert.

This is due to the fact that byte swapping is not working (or implemented?) yet and the on-disk layout is little-endian.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

squashfs-tools-4.0-*

How reproducible:

Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Just try to run mksquashfs
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Actual results:

FATAL ERROR:Swapping is not supported!


Expected results:

I dunno.  It actually works?

Additional info:

This is mostly just a tracker bug on the issue since it's an upstream problem.
Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2009-01-28 20:58:08 UTC 
Kyle updated and this should be fixed now I think
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