Hi, James Addison wrote: > Thinking aloud: as an alternative, would adding the '-f' flag to MKISOFS > achieve the desired result for both documentation and firmware files, > without requiring any other changes?
Let's pack up some symbolic links with -f: $ sudo mount firmware-bookworm-DI-alpha1-amd64-netinst.iso /mnt/iso ... $ ls -l /mnt/iso/firmware total 4 lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 73 Sep 20 14:30 amd64-microcode_3.20220411.1_amd64.deb -> ../pool/non-free/a/amd64-microcode/amd64-microcode_3.20220411.1_amd64.deb lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 62 Sep 20 14:30 atmel-firmware_1.3-6_all.deb -> ../pool/non-free/a/atmel-firmware/atmel-firmware_1.3-6_all.deb lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 62 Sep 20 14:30 bluez-firmware_1.2-7_all.deb -> ../pool/non-free/b/bluez-firmware/bluez-firmware_1.2-7_all.deb ... So Linux shows the symbolic links of the mounted ISO. I pick the directory with the links and a tree with most of their target files and put them into an ISO: $ xorriso -as mkisofs -f -R -o test.iso -graft-points /firmware=/mnt/iso/firmware /pool/non-free=/mnt/iso/pool/non-free ... Our goal is to have link and target path pointing to the same blocks. And indeed: $ xorriso -indev test.iso -find / -type f -sort_lba -exec report_lba -- ... Report layout: xt , Startlba , Blocks , Filesize , ISO image path File data lba: 0 , 49 , 57 , 115444 , '/firmware/amd64-microcode_3.20220411.1_amd64.deb' File data lba: 0 , 49 , 57 , 115444 , '/pool/non-free/a/amd64-microcode/amd64-microcode_3.20220411.1_amd64.deb' File data lba: 0 , 106 , 72 , 147088 , '/firmware/atmel-firmware_1.3-6_all.deb' File data lba: 0 , 106 , 72 , 147088 , '/pool/non-free/a/atmel-firmware/atmel-firmware_1.3-6_all.deb' File data lba: 0 , 178 , 89 , 181620 , '/firmware/bluez-firmware_1.2-7_all.deb' File data lba: 0 , 178 , 89 , 181620 , '/pool/non-free/b/bluez-fir ... With genisoimage i see the same. The only drawback seems to be that this prevents any symbolic links from being in the ISO. Whether the detection of dangling symbolic links at ISO production time is an advantage or a disadvantage is not so clear. Have a nice day :) Thomas
