Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> After installing the recent cdrtools (a35), I started a backup script 
> which writes all the backup information in a file and then creates an 
> ISO image thus:
>   mkisofs -o $DATE.iso -RU -graft-points -path-list $DATE.filelist
>
> The run aborted saying that files had the same Rockridge name. After 
> some investigation, it appears that the conflict was caused by ignoring 
> the graft points and putting every file in the root of the image instead 
> of using the subdirectory information. The man page for mkisofs 
> indicates that graft-points still is intended to function as I have been 
> using it for years.
>
> The symptom is that a graft point like "USRLCL=/usr/local" no longer 
> creates a subdirectory called USRLCL, but rather puts the tree starting 
> with /usr/local directly in the root of the ISO image. Needless to say, 
> this change doesn't qualify as an enhancement with me.

What you do here did never work as you believe...... You are using incorrect
syntax.

If you like to create a grafted _directory_ in the ISO image, you need to 
add a slash to the path name to the left of the equal sign.....


Jörg

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