Re: architectures, mkhybrid/mkisofs, mk* parameters, joliet fs ?

[Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>]

On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 03:20:08PM +0100, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote:
> a) i´m currently doing sparc images. is this usefull ?
>    any other architecture ready for an image  ?

Sparc is not ready yet. I am getting all the debian-cd support finished
up, after some testing.

> b) sparc needs mkisofs (mkhybrid does not know "-B"). please document
>    this for now. when should we use mkhybrid, when mkisofs ? 

No, sparc will use mkhybrid. There is a patch in the BTS against the
current mkhybrid for it to allow the -B option (this is Jakub's patch, and
is the way I want to do it). I think we should be using mkhybrid
unconditionally since a lot of features that debian-cd uses, is only in
mkhybrid (the sparc feature being one of them, the -F option another).

> d) enable or not joliet support in the cd images ? "-J" ...
>    this will not work with the first sparc image, as it needs mkisofs,
>    and mkisofs does not know about joliet (or did that change ?).

SPARC does not need joilet. The platform it is aimed at is Unix specific
and thus, rockridge is all that is needed.

> Bug in the Makefile ?
> mkhybrid complained about not knowing "-B", but the build process continued
> with the second cd image. trivial to reproduce.

Yes, most likely. It should check the exit value of the boot-<arch>
script.

> waiting for comments. if the sparc images creating work,
> i will add this to my daily build process.

Let me get everything finalized for sparc first please. I need to work out
a few more bugs in the boot process since sparc is using the actual cdrom
filesystem as root for booting (on CD 1 only).

I'll email this list when it is ready.

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