On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 01:18, Mike Eggleston wrote: > Could someone tell me the command line parameters to use with mkisofs to > build a new, patched ISO image please? I want to add the patches to the CD > but I'm getting an image just over 1GB in size. Just as a test, I mounted > the original ISO a tried making an image from that, but I still got over > 1GB.
The reason for this is that the tree from which the ISO is generated has bee "treated" to remove redundant files. I use a script (kindly provided by Sun) which runs through the tree, check-summing all the files. Where two (or more) files are found to be identical, all save one are replaced by symbolic (or soft) links. As you have discovered, this reduces the size of the ISO by many hundreds of MB. Unfortunately, if you rip the CD, you also end up with what *were* links replaced with actual files.... You might try using the "-f" or "-followlinks" command-line option to mkisofs and see if that helps... > > Also, and please correct me should I be wrong, it seems all we need do to > produce a patched CD is to replace the f?_??? files with the ZIPped patch > libraries (f0_029 - Linux; f0_030 Solaris - Intel & Sparc; and f0_064 - > Windows). That is correct... Another option is to simply include the patch with a simple batch file/shell script to copy over the patch. This could (under windows) be triggered by autorun, probably could look a little like @echo off ooo_setup.exe copy <name of patch> c:\<installdir>\sot*.dll That should first run the installer, and then copy the patched DLL over the other one. It would be similar in a shell... > > I'm not sure about building the self-extracting .exe file for the Windows > version but, if someone could provide the relevant information, I can do > the work and make the new ISO available for download. If someone could > donate a bit of space on a fast server for this, I'd be grateful. I'm just waiting on a new NSIS installer. once I have that, the new ISO will be available within a couple of days. Just on that note, I notice that 1.1.5 is due very soon, probably very shortly after the patch is merged.... If it comes out first, then I'll just do one with that.... > > I can't help with the Mac version though. Any offers? I'm looking into that. Same procedure of course, I just have to work out how to replace the file and re-pack the installer...:( (I've asked on Porting, but it seems there were two different packing tools used... Oh well!!) -- Alex Fisher Co-Lead, CD-ROM Project OpenOffice.org Marketing Community Contact Australia/New Zealand http://distribution.openoffice.org/cdrom/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
