mkcramfs & mkfs.jffs2 packages

Christopher Faylor cgf-no-personal-reply-please@cygwin.com
Tue Mar 29 15:33:00 GMT 2005


On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 02:36:05PM +0200, Marion Deveaud wrote:
>I had to port those two tools for Cygwin to help my customer develop his 
>embedded Linux application in the Cygwin environment. Since I sometimes 
>see on the mailing-list people asking for those tools I though my work 
>may help other guys out there.
>
>Here the description of both of the packages:
>
>mkcramfs setup.hint:
>-------------------
>category: Devel
>requires: cygwin
>sdesc:  "A tool to create CRAMFS filesystem images conform to Linux."
>ldesc:  "A tool to create CRAMFS filesystem images conform to Linux.
>        Can be used to create embedded (root)filesystem images."
>
>
>mkfsjffs2 setup.hint:
>--------------------
>category: Devel
>requires: cygwin
>sdesc:  "A tool to create JFFS2 filesystem images conform to Linux."
>ldesc:  "A tool to create JFFS2 filesystem images conform to Linux.
>        Can be used to create embedded (root)filesystem images."
>
>
>Unfortunately I have no time to maintain those packages. The most part 
>of the work is to assure the compatibility of the image with Linux 
>filesystems drivers.

If you can't maintain the packages then these can't be submitted for
the release.  Maintenance is part of the deal when you offer packages
like this.

cgf



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