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Date:      Sun, 19 Jul 2009 09:54:59 +0200
From:      John Hay <jhay@meraka.org.za>
To:        Tim Kientzle <kientzle@freebsd.org>
Cc:        "'freebsd-current@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Joliet and release ISOs?
Message-ID:  <20090719075459.GA31256@zibbi.meraka.csir.co.za>
In-Reply-To: <4A615602.4090000@freebsd.org>
References:  <4A615602.4090000@freebsd.org>

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On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 09:56:34PM -0700, Tim Kientzle wrote:
> Do we need Joliet extensions on the release ISOs?
> 
> The reason I ask is a little involved:  jkim@ recently
> pointed out to me that tar in -CURRENT can no longer
> extract symlinks from the release ISOs.
> 
> I tracked this down to the fact that the release ISOs
> have both Joliet and RockRidge extensions and tar now
> supports (and actually prefers) Joliet extensions when
> it sees them. Joliet doesn't support symlinks, so tar
> doesn't see symlinks on disks with both kinds of extensions.
> 
> There's a workaround that people can use for now:
>     tar xf image.iso --options=!joliet
> disables the Joliet support.
> 
> I'm curious whether removing the -J option from
> /usr/src/release/*/mkisoimages.sh is an option.

What is the reason for prefering Juliet in tar? Can't we just swap
the preference?

John
-- 
John Hay -- jhay@meraka.csir.co.za / jhay@FreeBSD.org



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