On Fri, 6 Oct 2017, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 10/06/2017 03:36 AM, Finn Thain wrote: > > I see there is code to copy some files that don't exist in any debian > > package. This code should be copying macbinary files, not hqx or hfs > > files. That is why I sent you those macbinary files to add to > > m68kboot. (Please refer to email messages of September 2nd and 3rd.) > > I'm confused. Didn't you say back then that the files are there and > usable on the Debian Sarge installation media?
There's no contradiction. Binhex (.hqx) is usable if you can unpack it (at best inconvenient). OTOH, Macbinary should get decoded by $MKISOFS and that makes it ideal. This is the only reason I can see why the debian-cd package in fact creates a hybrid ISO for m68k. > My idea was to first just upload the "penguin" package [1] to > "unreleased" and then rebuild the CD image. I assume that should restore > the Debian Sarge setup. > I was not aware of the Penguin_19-3 deb. But it doesn't change what I wrote about the sarge ISO, etch-m68k ISO, or the different solutions. > > All the old files should be dropped. The hfs floppy image is even less > > useful than hqx, because no utility to deal with floppy images is > > bundled with MacOS. The $MKISOFS invocations in the debian-cd package > > for creating hybrid m68k and powerpc installers will detect macbinary > > but not hqx files (see -probe option in the man page). > > Well. I think it's still a sensible idea to create the floppy image if > there are tools generally available to write those to floppies. > In the end I did figure out the reason why the penguin.hfs image exists: it is there so that you can create a Mac floppy disk using a Linux PC with a floppy drive. It's only useful for installing Debian on a Mac which has no network connection, but I guess there is some value in it. But there's no value in PenguinColors. According to Penguin.doc from the Sarge ISO, these CLUT resources were incorporated into Penguin-16. ResEdit confirms that Penguin-19 also contains these resources. The point about $MKISOFS remains: the binhex files (.hqx) should be converted to macbinary (which is why I sent you the macbinary files). But perhaps we should just provide both formats instead of dropping the hqx files entirely? -- > Adrian > > > [1] http://snapshot.debian.org/package/penguin/19-3/ > >
