Re: Archive changes

2016-03-16 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > > > As of now, InRelease/Release files, Packages and Sources no longer > > > provide MD5Sum and SHA1sums, only SHA256. Steve McIntyre wrote: > > We can't fix this easily in a short > > timescale - current released jigdo clients (both in Debian and > > externally) use md

Re: Accepted libburn 1.4.0-2 (source amd64 all) into unstable

2015-09-11 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Fabian Greffrath wrote: > Where is 1.4.0-1? There was a 1.4.0-1.1 on mentors. When i added myself to Uploaders, i moved on to 1.4.0-2. Same for libisofs and libisoburn. Most probably i will have to make libburn-1.4.0-3 to repair an upstream regression that prevents building on Debian GNU/kFr

Re: Wheezy release: CDs are not big enough any more...

2012-05-16 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Bjørn Mork wrote: > On a default Debian system you need to be a member of > the "floppy" group. Ferenc Wagner wrote: > What about recommending /dev/disk/by-id/usb-X instead? I understand that the instructions about creating a Debian installation medium shall be usable on as many systems as

Re: Wheezy release: CDs are not big enough any more...

2012-05-15 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Steve McIntyre wrote: > (http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch04s03.html.en) but > skipped straight past section 4.3.1. Looks like we could do with a big > clear message "DO THIS UNLESS YOU HAVE SPECIAL NEEDS" to make it more > obvious. :-) I am a bit scared by the catastrophic poten

Re: Wheezy release: CDs are not big enough any more...

2012-05-15 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > Fedora/RH folks recently added more > hacks to isohybrid to support booting on Macs: > http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/11285.html This is achieved by applying ISOLINUX program isohybrid from a recent ISOLINYX version to the already produced ISO images. syslinux-4.05 should probably do. It is a

Re: How to coordinate a DVD burn program with udev ?

2011-09-20 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i managed to work around the problem - at least on my system. There are at least two oddities involved - If the kernel events happen, then always on open(). But it is quite unpredictable whether they happen at all. xorriso and program "eject" have a higher probability to trigger kernel

Re: How to coordinate a DVD burn program with udev ?

2011-09-19 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Ben Hutchings: > I imagine that libburn's commands to the drive cause it to signal a > status change to the kernel driver, which passes that on to udev. That's obviously what happens. udev then loses patience with the drive that is kept internally busy by a pending SCSI command from libburn,

Re: How to coordinate a DVD burn program with udev ?

2011-09-16 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, me: > > What is the recommended way for a library resp. a console program > > to tell udev, that a CD drive and the media will undergo arbitrary > > changes and should not be accessed during that time ? Ben Hutchings: > There isn't one. Isn't this a kind of shortcomming ? I remember that E

How to coordinate a DVD burn program with udev ?

2011-09-15 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i am upstream developer of libburn and CD/DVD/BD burn program xorriso. It seems urgent that i coordinate the activities of libburn with the activities of udev. What is the recommended way for a library resp. a console program to tell udev, that a CD drive and the media will undergo arbitrary

Re: MBF alert: packages with very long source / .deb filenames

2011-03-28 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote: >> xorriso -as mkisofs -o test.iso -J -joliet-long -graft-points \ >> /012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234 >> 5678901234567890123456789=/some/file/on/disk > > Didn't worked over here with an uptodate Windows X

Re: MBF alert: packages with very long source / .deb filenames

2011-03-28 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, some technical facts about name lenght in Debian ISO 9660 images: Raphael Hertzog wrote: > What happens if you try to put too-long filenames on the CD with Joliet > enabled? libisofs, which produces the Debian i386 and amd64 images, truncates oversized Joliet names. Collisions get resolved b

Re: xcdroast does no longer work with wodim: Who to blame?

2009-03-01 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i am the author of cdrskin and not subscribed here. Please Cc me. Michelle Konzack wrote: > All they are SCSI and not a singel one is working with wodim. Hm. What are the symptoms ? William Pitcock wrote: > > Or look into libburn + cdrskin, which should "just work" Michelle Konzack wrote: