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diff --git a/filesystems/sasquatch/pkg-descr b/filesystems/sasquatch/pkg-descr new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..310014639119 --- /dev/null +++ b/filesystems/sasquatch/pkg-descr @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +The sasquatch project is a set of patches to the standard unsquashfs utility +(part of squashfs-tools) that attempts to add support for as many hacked-up +vendor-specific SquashFS implementations as possible. + +It can be used in conjunction with binwalk to extract firmware images where +unsquashfs would fail, e.g. + + If the vendor has done something simple like just muck a bit with the header + fields, sasquatch should sort it out. + + If the vendor has made changes to the underlying LZMA compression options, + or to how these options are stored in the compressed data blocks, sasquatch + will attempt to automatically resolve such customizations via a brute-force + method. + +Original project under: https://github.com/devttys0/sasquatch |