[cut-team] testing xorriso with your image building efforts

[George Danchev]

Hi image producing teams,

As your teams seem to produce large sets of images, I'd like to ask you to 
give xorriso a try as an alternate iso image generator. We get more testing, 
and hopefully you get more useful features. Debian-cd already switched over 
xorriso, except for powerpc [1].

Some notes, you might be interested in.

1) You may want to make use of emulation mode, to ease (a temporal) switching:
+ xorriso -as mkisofs|genisoimage --their-options-follow
(there is a convenient symlink xorrisofs; invoked that way implies above 
emulation)
+ xorriso -as cdrecord|wodim --their-options-follow
(resp. there is xorrecord symlink, which implies above)

2) Existing images could be manipulated.
3) There is support for dialog session, to play with either manually or from 
scripts (via stdin+stdout, example [3])
4) Further helpful information could be seen in the FAQ. In case of missing 
entries, the FAQ could be improved.

[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-cd/2011/05/msg00020.html
[2] http://www.libburnia-project.org/wiki/FAQ
[3] http://git.debian.org/?p=users/danchev/medistimator.git;a=summary

P.S. Please CC as I'm not subscribed to the above lists.

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