Re: port-macppc/53549 ppc601 machines need their own INSTALL kernel

[Valery Ushakov <uwe%stderr.spb.ru@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR port-macppc/53549; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Valery Ushakov <uwe%stderr.spb.ru@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: port-macppc/53549 ppc601 machines need their own INSTALL kernel
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2018 13:13:42 +0300

 On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 08:50:01 +0000, Martin Husemann wrote:
 
 >  There is src/distrib/cdrom/README:
 >  
 >  --8<--
 >  Now build.sh script has the "iso-image" target using our native makefs(8)
 >  and this distrib/cdrom is being superseded, but our makefs(8) still
 >  lacks support for a hybrid ISO9660/HFS file system which is required
 >  to create bootable CD images for mac68k and macppc.
 >  
 >  On the other hand, the recent version of mkisofs(8) seems to use
 >  iconv(3) libraries on creating the hybrid ISO9660/HFS file system,
 >  but the latest mkisofs(8) (at least cdrtools-2.01.01.36) from pkgsrc
 >  dumps core on it. cdrtools-2.01 is required to build images. (PR pkg/37643)
 >  -->8--
 
 Is that latest part still true?  The PR has been closed for 9 years (I
 vaguely remember trying a newer version of cdrtools and fixing a bug
 in command line parsing, some 4 years ago).
 
 -uwe