[Android-tools-devel] android-tools-fsutils support

[Chirayu Desai]

I pushed the sparse image tools.
What we need now is make_ext4fs, and also a dummy transitional package
to ensure that updates work correctly.


On 12/20/2016 11:53 PM, Chirayu Desai wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> On 12/20/2016 01:15 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>> Hey Chirayu,
>>
>> If you can do the packaging work, I can review and upload it ASAP.
> On it. Adding simg2img and friends to system-core.
> Will also add make_ext4fs and friends to system-extras.
> We had that in android-tools-fsutils package, and it's needed as it
> contains some android specific options which are not in the generic
> mkfs.ext4
>> .hc
>>
>> Chirayu Desai:
>>> Hello Senthil,
>>>
>>> Both of those tools are built from source code present in
>>> the android-platform-system-core repo.
>>> We could build them from the src:android-platform-system-core for debian.
>>>
>>> It wouldn't need too much effort too.
>>>
>>> We should also look at any other packages left out during the transition,
>>> as this is a useful utility, to be able to convert the sparse images
>>> Android uses into standard raw images, which can then be mounted and poked
>>> at. Vice versa for img2simg.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Chirayu Desai
>>>
>>> On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 6:28 PM Senthil Kumaran S <stylesen at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I would like to know about support for android-tools-fsutils package in
>>>> future releases of Debian beyond jessie. I could see android-tools-*
>>>> packages are getting replaced. What are the plans for
>>>> android-tools-fsutils?
>>>>
>>>> To be more specific, I want to know which package will provide the
>>>> following utilities in future?
>>>>
>>>> /usr/bin/simg2img
>>>> /usr/bin/img2simg
>>>>
>>>> Thank You.
>>>> --
>>>> Senthil Kumaran S
>>>> http://www.stylesen.org/
>>>> http://www.sasenthilkumaran.com/
>>>>
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