Hi, Ivan Shmakov wrote: > I’m filing this bug against versions from oldstable and > stable, for that’s so far the only Debian packages’ versions > I’ve tested for this issue.
As it is about an upstream wish: The newest easily compilable and then usable version would be http://www.gnu.org/software/xorriso/xorriso-1.5.5.tar.gz It can be compiled without much dependencies and then used without installation. See "Compilation, First Glimpse, Installation" in https://www.gnu.org/software/xorriso/README_xorriso_devel Said that, and now with my upstream hat on, i expect no difference to versions 1.5.0 or 1.5.4 in respect to command -cut_out. So there is no need to get xorriso-1.5.5.tar.gz unless you want to test a patch proposed by me. I downloaded your 114.xorriso-1.diff and will study it for the goal of enabling -cut_out for more file types. I already see that it makes changes about fsrc_open(), which is a central facility of libisofs. This means it will last several days of study and pondering until i would be convinced of any change. Also i need to check whether your diff interferes with the ability to backup a block device file as itself and not as bearer of its content: rm test.iso xorriso -outdev test.iso -map /dev/sr0 /sr0 -commit -lsdl /sr0 -- should produce even with a loaded BD_RE medium of 23 GiB a small ISO and report a block device file in it brw-rw---- 1 0 24 11,0 Apr 24 14:15 '/sr0' So i guess that other changes are necessary to keep this capability while enabling -cut_out for block devices. I will report my findings. Have a nice day :) Thomas
