Re: Add genisoimage parameter -keep-top-dirs
Hey Thomas! Happy New Year!
On Thu, Dec 30, 2021 at 04:05:31PM +0100, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
>
>Kai Engert wrote:
>> If growisofs is going to survive for another few years, then maybe it's
>> worth keeping the toolchain alive? (which requires genisoimage)
>
>xorriso can substitue for mkisofs and genisoimage by help of its link
>"xorrisofs" and the growisofs variable "MKISOFS". man xorrisofs has
>an example:
>
> $ export MKISOFS="xorrisofs"
> $ growisofs -Z /dev/dvd /some/files
> $ growisofs -M /dev/dvd /more/files
> If no "xorrisofs" is available on your system, then you will have to
> create a link pointing to the xorriso binary and tell growisofs to use
> it. E.g. by:
> $ ln -s $(which xorriso) "$HOME/xorrisofs"
> $ export MKISOFS="$HOME/xorrisofs"
>
>> Is there a primary repository somewhere (e.g. github) that is equivalent to
>> the most recent cdrkit release that debian and fedora packages are based on?
>
>The original repo is gone, i fear.
>This here looks like going back to the fork from cdrtools in 2006:
> https://code.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cdrkit
The most recent official cdrkti releases were fromm svn at
svn.debian.org, which has now gone away. We can grab the backups and
do a git conversion if that's really wanted, but I'm not sure it's
worth the effort.
>It knows my Launchpad Id and offers
> git clone git+ssh://scdbackup@git.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cdrkit
>I guess you get at least offered
> git clone https://git.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cdrkit
>
>> Is there an official download location for the most recent tar archive, or
>> would it be fine to simple use the archive found in the debian package?
>
>The most recent Debian package
> https://packages.debian.org/unstable/genisoimage
>is obviously based on
> http://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/c/cdrkit/cdrkit_1.1.11.orig.tar.gz
> http://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/c/cdrkit/cdrkit_1.1.11-3.2.debian.tar.xz
>You may inspect the source online at
> https://sources.debian.org/src/cdrkit/9:1.1.11-3.2/
Nod.
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