On Tue 12 Nov, Steve McIntyre wrote: > On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 12:43:42PM +0000, Wookey wrote:
<snip complaint from s390 user that he can't browse his CDs on a Windows box to read the docs before starting the install> > >To the CD-team more generally: Looking at the scripts I see that i386 and > >alpha CDs add -J automatically, but not the other arches. Is there a good > >reason why we don't make them with -J anyway for exactly this reason (easy > >to browse on a handy windows box before the install?). I suppose it uses up > >some space on the CD, but presumably not actually very much? I make my ARM > >CDs with -J and no-one has complained... > > There was a hint of problems for m68k a long time ago, ISTR. So I > turned off -J for the m68k CDs a long time ago, in slink IIRC. CC:ed to porters. Can porters tell the CD team whether they would prefer CDs to be made with Joliet long-filenames (as well as the current options) or not. Is this known/thought to cause problems on any architectures these days. If not then I suggest we turn it back on as it's extremely useful to those that need it. Wookey -- Aleph One Ltd, Bottisham, CAMBRIDGE, CB5 9BA, UK Tel +44 (0) 1223 811679 work: http://www.aleph1.co.uk/ play: http://www.chaos.org.uk/~wookey/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
