Re: Bug#731806: debian-installer: FTBFS on sparc: genisoimage errors
Hi,
> I'm not sure we want to continuously give it back until it builds (which
> it might on schroeder, since it didn't fail there yet)...
I would assume the problem is deterministic and depends on
the exact tree of file names which is given to genisoimage
as input.
So adding a few names of empty files here and there might help.
> > But why is that mini.iso produced by genisoimage at all ?
> > debian-7.2.0-sparc-netinst.iso was produced by xorriso.
> @Thomas: Probably due to historical reasons. Not sure I want to be
> touching that since I know nothing about architecture/image-specific
> settings. :/
Debian-cd uses xorriso's compatibility command "-as mkisofs".
If you have the opportunity to just exchange every occurence of
genisoimage
by
xorriso -as mkisofs
or, if a single word is needed, by its symbolic link alias
xorrisofs
then this might well be worth a try.
It should work with xorriso-1.3.2 from sid, and most probably
also with 1.2.2 from stable. debian-7.4.0-sparc-netinst.iso was
built by xorriso-1.2.6, probably from
http://www.gnu.org/software/xorriso/xorriso-1.2.6.tar.gz
If you can point me to the code which controls the genisoimage
run, then i will inspect it for problematic options.
Have a nice day :)
Thomas
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