Juergen Fiedler <juergen.fiedler <at> gmail.com> writes: > > On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 10:41 AM, Daniel Baumann <daniel <at> debian.org> wrote: > [...] > > i've commited a not perfect but less limited approach: > > > > It looks like this fix made it into live-helper 1.0.0+20080825.163637, > so I created config/binary_rootfs/excludes containing the following: > ------- > boot/vmlinuz* > boot/initrd.img* > -------
The *original* exclude file mechanism in Mksquashfs doesn't support wildcards. Filenames are treated literally, i.e. "boot/vmlinuz*" excludes the file called "vmlinuz*", which is usually not what you want. Wildcards can sometimes be made to work with the -e option (where the exclude files are specified on the command line) by virtue of shell wildcard expansion, i.e. the wildcards are evaluated by the shell and are not passed to Mksquashfs. The -ef option doesn't support wildcards in any shape or form because the contents of the file are not evaluated by the shell. So in the above you should either specify "boot" to exclude the entire boot directory, or you have to explicitly specify each file you want to exclude. Mksquashfs 3.3 significantly improves the exclude file mechanism adding wildcard support and removing the odd behaviour seen previously. To use this you have to specify the "-wildcards" option to Mksquashfs. Once done your config/binary_rootfs/excludes file should work as expected. Phillip _______________________________________________ debian-live-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-live-devel
