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://scdbac...@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. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com Into the distance, a ribbon of black Stretched to the point of no turning back