Re: MBF alert: packages with very long source / .deb filenames

2011-03-28 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Joey Hess jo...@debian.org writes: Steve McIntyre wrote: There are uses I've heard about, including (apparently quite common) using CDs and DVDs to seed a mirror on a Windows server. If I had to chose between that working, and not needing to worry about filename lengths, I'd choose the

Re: MBF alert: packages with very long source / .deb filenames

2011-03-28 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, some technical facts about name lenght in Debian ISO 9660 images: Raphael Hertzog wrote: What happens if you try to put too-long filenames on the CD with Joliet enabled? libisofs, which produces the Debian i386 and amd64 images, truncates oversized Joliet names. Collisions get resolved by

Re: MBF alert: packages with very long source / .deb filenames

2011-03-28 Thread Alexander Reichle-Schmehl
Hi! Am 28.03.2011 11:23, schrieb Thomas Schmitt: Test reports from reading such an ISO image by a real Windows machine would be interesting ... :) E.g. with a file name of 100 characters: xorriso -as mkisofs -o test.iso -J -joliet-long -graft-points \

Re: MBF alert: packages with very long source / .deb filenames

2011-03-28 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote: xorriso -as mkisofs -o test.iso -J -joliet-long -graft-points \ /012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234 5678901234567890123456789=/some/file/on/disk Didn't worked over here with an uptodate Windows XP. It

Re: Installing Etch

2011-03-28 Thread Steve McIntyre
Roman wrote: you're welcome! Yeah, but haven't found CD-s archive, just for curiosity, where they might be?... hmm. http://www.debian.org/CD/faq/#old points at http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/archive/ -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com There's

Re: MBF alert: packages with very long source / .deb filenames

2011-03-28 Thread Andreas Metzler
In gmane.linux.debian.devel.general Joey Hess jo...@debian.org wrote: Steve McIntyre wrote: There are uses I've heard about, including (apparently quite common) using CDs and DVDs to seed a mirror on a Windows server. If I had to chose between that working, and not needing to worry about

Re: MBF alert: packages with very long source / .deb filenames

2011-03-28 Thread J.A. Bezemer
On Mon, 28 Mar 2011, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: Olaf van der Spek wrote: On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 5:55 PM, John H. Robinson, IV jaq...@debian.org wrote: Olaf van der Spek wrote: That's not our problem, is it? It is, if we are trying to be as compatible as possible. Compatible with what?

Bug#619211: debian-cd: Add hurd-i386 support

2011-03-28 Thread Samuel Thibault
Samuel Thibault, le Tue 22 Mar 2011 02:08:09 +0100, a écrit : The attached patch adds hurd-i386 support to debian-cd, could you please apply it? and please don't forget to chmod +x tools/boot/sid/boot-hurd-i386 Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-cd-requ...@lists.debian.org with a