Re: Announcing mkisofs 1.13

2010-03-03 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Robert Millan] In 2006, the cdrtools version of mkisofs spawned another fork: genisoimage, which was included as part of cdrkit package in the Debian GNU/Linux distribution. I don't know if this is any use, but: my humble contributions to the cdrkit project, past and future, may be

Re: GNU isofsmk (was: Re: Announcing mkisofs 1.13)

2010-01-25 Thread Joerg Schilling
Robert Millan r...@aybabtu.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 12:09:50AM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: If you really like to take the outdated mkisofs and play with it, I urge you not to use the name mkisofs for this Next release will be renamed to GNU isofsmk to make sure users won't get

GNU isofsmk (was: Re: Announcing mkisofs 1.13)

2010-01-24 Thread Robert Millan
Hi, On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 12:09:50AM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: If you really like to take the outdated mkisofs and play with it, I urge you not to use the name mkisofs for this Next release will be renamed to GNU isofsmk to make sure users won't get confused. Note that your tar

Re: Announcing mkisofs 1.13

2010-01-10 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, I will leech you for the final boot loader of the emerging libburnia OS farm. Be my guest. You can also try grub-de...@gnu.org. The OS installations tend to overwrite each others bootloaders. Currently i am working on the FreeBSD installation which seems to be the first which did not

Re: Announcing mkisofs 1.13

2010-01-09 Thread Robert Millan
On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 11:49:33PM +0100, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, * Support for creating large images ( 4 GiB). You are aware that even quite young Linux kernels have problems to read multi-extent files ? I didn't know about this. Thanks for noting it. * Support for El Torito

Re: Announcing mkisofs 1.13

2010-01-09 Thread Mario Đanić
Do you have plans for UDF ? (Problem seems to develop a proper model of how  the components of ECMA-167 form an UDF compliant  graph that implements multi-session.) I'm considering appliing for GSoC under the GNU umbrella this summer to get UDF kicked out.  The ideal would be if someone

Re: Announcing mkisofs 1.13

2010-01-09 Thread Robert Millan
On Sat, Jan 09, 2010 at 09:26:33PM +0100, Mario Đanić wrote: I'm considering appliing for GSoC under the GNU umbrella this summer to get UDF kicked out.  The ideal would be if someone who's got good understanding of this standard will be interested in mentoring this project. While I

Re: Announcing mkisofs 1.13

2010-01-09 Thread Mario Đanić
On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 21:55, Robert Millan r...@aybabtu.com wrote: On Sat, Jan 09, 2010 at 09:26:33PM +0100, Mario Đanić wrote: I'm considering appliing for GSoC under the GNU umbrella this summer to get UDF kicked out.  The ideal would be if someone who's got good understanding of this

Re: Announcing mkisofs 1.13

2010-01-09 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, I happen to be maintainer of GNU GRUB, so yes ;-) Nice incidence. I will leech you for the final boot loader of the emerging libburnia OS farm. (The question is about how one has to patch the boot image and/or the MBR after the block address of the boot image is determined.) I

Re: Announcing mkisofs 1.13

2010-01-09 Thread Robert Millan
On Sat, Jan 09, 2010 at 10:27:20PM +0100, Mario Đanić wrote: Both a mentor and a student, and an unofficial admin (reading all applications, and ranking them *sigh*). Being part of the program is very rewarding, and subsequently its a great privilege to work with a great student. :-)

Re: Announcing mkisofs 1.13

2010-01-09 Thread Joerg Schilling
Robert Millan r...@aybabtu.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 05:30:09PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: You also do not mention that the even outdated version of mkisofs you are using contains code from me. This is true (at least for files prototyp.h, fctldefs.h, statdefs.h and

Re: Announcing mkisofs 1.13

2010-01-09 Thread Robert Millan
On Sat, Jan 09, 2010 at 11:03:39PM +0100, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, I happen to be maintainer of GNU GRUB, so yes ;-) Nice incidence. I will leech you for the final boot loader of the emerging libburnia OS farm. Be my guest. You can also try grub-de...@gnu.org. (The question is

Re: Announcing mkisofs 1.13

2010-01-08 Thread Joerg Schilling
Robert Millan r...@aybabtu.com wrote: I'm proud to announce the release of GNU mkisofs version 1.13. Could you please explain this? Do you like to confuse people with outdated software? This looks like complete nonsense. The official mkisofs is part of cdrtools since a long time and the

Re: Announcing mkisofs 1.13

2010-01-08 Thread Til Schubbe
* On 08.01. Joerg Schilling muttered: Well, your source does not even compile At least it compiles on my machine. Regards Til -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to cdwrite-requ...@other.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@other.debian.org

Re: Announcing mkisofs 1.13

2010-01-08 Thread Joerg Schilling
Til Schubbe li...@lists.schubbe.org wrote: Well, your source does not even compile At least it compiles on my machine. Nobody is interested in software from 1997 and with only the features from 1997. Jörg -- EMail:jo...@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin

Re: Announcing mkisofs 1.13

2010-01-08 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, I'm proud to announce the release of GNU mkisofs version 1.13. Wow. That is kindof a blast from the past. bringing it to up-to-date standards, as well as implementing some unique features that are necessary for GRUB, the GNU bootloader. Would you be interested in cooperating with the

Re: Announcing mkisofs 1.13

2010-01-08 Thread Robert Millan
Hi, On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 05:30:09PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: You also do not mention that the even outdated version of mkisofs you are using contains code from me. This is true (at least for files prototyp.h, fctldefs.h, statdefs.h and mconfig.h where your name appears). It's

Re: Announcing mkisofs 1.13

2010-01-08 Thread Robert Millan
On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 08:24:10PM +0100, Thomas Schmitt wrote: bringing it to up-to-date standards, as well as implementing some unique features that are necessary for GRUB, the GNU bootloader. Would you be interested in cooperating with the libburnia project ? (Exchanging knowledge,

Re: Announcing mkisofs 1.13

2010-01-08 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, * Support for creating large images ( 4 GiB). You are aware that even quite young Linux kernels have problems to read multi-extent files ? My 2.6.18 swallows the last few bytes if the file size is not a multiple of 2048. (libisofs can dare to produce such files without warning because