[Debburn-devel] mondoarchive fails on genisoimage

[Rob Borland]

Ah, I see that the syntax for file exclusions in mondoarchive has 
changed, I need pipes not whitespace as separators. My fault entirely.

Thanks again for your invaluable advice. AND you work on xorriso too, of 
course!

On 11/01/2016 9:20 AM, Rob Borland wrote:
> Thomas, thanks for your very helpful advice, much appreciated. Please 
> excuse my top posting, I am on a Windows machine offsite :-(
>
> I don't need EFI bootability but offhand I don't know how to disable 
> this in mondoarchive.
>
> Instead I replaced genisoimage with a link to xorriso and mondoarchive 
> started working again.
>
> BUT using the same command as before mondoarchive had generated 31 
> ISOs even before starting on large files and I interrupted the program 
> before it consumed all my disk space. Previously it generated 3 or 4 
> ISOs. It looks like the exclude spec is not working. I will start work 
> on this issue shortly.
>
> I attach the compressed log for information.
>
> Regards,
> Rob
>
> On 10/01/2016 11:28 PM, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Rob Borland wrote:
>>> This is my first posting to this list. Greetings to all.
>> It is very silent here.
>>
>>> I get the following fault running mondoarchive in Debian Wheezy:
>>> ...
>>> genisoimage: option '-e' is ambiguous
>> This option is an invention of Fedora's mkisofs clone.
>> It shall mark an EFI boot image in the El Torito boot catalog.
>> (Here: images/mindi-bootroot.img)
>>
>> So if you need no EFI bootability and know how to disable this
>> feature in mondoarchive, that might be a way to go.
>>
>>
>> The other alternative is to use my program xorriso instead.
>> Its mkisofs emulation would accept the options of the failed
>> genisoimage run.
>>
>> If you cannot talk mondoarchive into using /usr/bin/xorrisofs
>> out of package "xorriso", then you will have to replace
>> /usr/bin/genisoimage by a link to /usr/bin/xorriso.
>> Note that xorriso cannot produce UDF filesystems which you
>> would need for video DVD production. So keep genisoimage under
>> a different name.
>>
>> (I feel a certain degree of pain with the thought that you
>>   will use xorriso-1.2.2, which is 3 and a half year old and
>>   ten releases behind. Interesting old bugs still in and even
>>   more interesting new bugs not yet in.)
>>
>>
>> Have a nice day :)
>>
>> Thomas
>>
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