Re: CVS commit: src/distrib/cdrom

[Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost>]

joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 08:23:01PM +0900, Izumi Tsutsui wrote:
> > apb%cequrux.com@localhost wrote:
> > 
> > > On Sun, 22 Mar 2009, Izumi Tsutsui wrote:
> > > > IMO, the right way to go is to import working mkisofs(8)
> > > > from cdrtools-2.01 as a build-only host tool,
> > > 
> > > I'd prefer to see "makefs -t cd9660" fixed or enhanced to support
> > > whatever is needed.
> > 
> > If we live in the perfect world(TM), yes. (it's in the soc project page)
> > 
> > But I doubt it will happen in ~10 years...
> > (even it took more than 5 years to have newfs_ext2fs(8) for PR/16175 ;-p)
> 
> Well, what are the issues with it? E.g. PRs to document the laking
> features?

HFS/ISO9660 hybrid seems a bit completed, and few people will be
interested in reinventing a dumb wheel only for such completeness
(preparing bootable install media without external tools)?

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Izumi Tsutsui