On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 11:52:35AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: >Steve McIntyre wrote: >> I've noticed a problem recently in the archive when building CDs, >> aggravated to a certain extent by the newer source formats. Some of >> the filenames in the archive are getting *very* long, and this is >> causing issues. As a matter of course, we build CDs with RockRidge and >> Joliet support so that we have long filenames for Linux and Windows >> users. > >What is the use case for accessing long filenames from the CD in >Windows? The files needed by win32-loader need to be >accessible, and documentation too, but it should not matter if >deb files cannot be looked up from within Windows.
There are uses I've heard about, including (apparently quite common) using CDs and DVDs to seed a mirror on a Windows server. >Is it possible to provide Joliet filenames for only a subset of files? It is, yes. But not something I'd like to do if we can avoid it. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com You lock the door And throw away the key There's someone in my head but it's not me -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-cd-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110325160115.gb23...@einval.com
