Hi, be invited to try the release 0.5.4 of GNU xorriso, a ISO 9660 Rock Ridge filesystem manipulator. Available on GNU FTP mirrors as xorriso/xorriso-0.5.4.tar.gz
It creates, loads, manipulates and writes ISO 9660 filesystem images with Rock Ridge extensions. Optionally it supports hard links, ACLs, xattr, and MD5 checksums. xorriso can load the management information of existing ISO images and it writes the session results to optical media or to filesystem objects. Vice versa xorriso is able to copy file objects from ISO 9660 filesystems to disk. A special property of xorriso is that it needs neither an external ISO 9660 formatter program nor an external burn program for CD, DVD or BD but rather incorporates the libraries of libburnia-project.org . Novelties: This release is mainly aimed at supporting GRUB and to make obsolete program grub-mkisofs. This effort is coordinated with GRUB script grub-mkrescue and its developer. Another change has been made on request of H.Peter Anvin who deprecated the use of the libisofs built-in ISOLINUX MBR. He advises to use one of the files mbr/isohdp[fp]x*.bin out of the same Syslinux release from where the ISOLINUX boot image isolinux.bin was taken. So xorriso option -boot_image isolinux isohybrid=on has been replaced by -boot_image isolinux system_area=<External-MBR-File> In mkisofs emulation -as mkisofs isolinux_mbr=on|auto was replaced by -as mkisofs -isohybrid-mbr <External-MBR-File> * New -boot_image any system_area=, -as mkisofs option -G * New -boot_image grub partition_table=on, -as mkisofs --protective-msdos-label * New -boot_image isolinux partition_table=on, -as mkisofs -isohybrid-mbr * New option -volume_date, -as mkisofs --modification-date= * New -find action mkisofs_r, -as mkisofs -r * New -find action sort_weight, -as mkisofs --sort-weight * New -compliance options only_iso_version, no_j_force_dots avoid a bug in GRUB 1.96. They are default now. License: GPLv3+ System requirements: - GNU/Linux: kernel 2.4 or 2.6, libc, libpthread - FreeBSD : libc, libpthread, libiconv, IDE and SATA drives need atapicam - on other X/Open systems there will be no direct operation of CD/DVD/BD drives, but only POSIX i/o which may or may not be offered by the system for DVD-RAM, DVD+RW, or BD-RE. Optional: libreadline + libreadline-development zlib + zlib-development on GNU/Linux: libacl + libacl-development If they were present at compile time, then the optional libraries have to be present at runtime, too. For more info, see http://www.gnu.org/software/xorriso/xorriso_eng.html http://www.gnu.org/software/xorriso/man_1_xorriso.html http://www.gnu.org/software/xorriso is mirrored at scdbackup.sourceforge.net and scdbackup.webframe.org . Download: The xorriso release tarball is available at mirrors of ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/xorriso/xorriso-0.5.4.tar.gz (see GNU FTP Mirror List http://www.gnu.org/prep/ftp.html ) or as http://www.gnu.org/software/xorriso/xorriso-0.5.4.tar.gz Post bug reports or requests to one of these mailing lists: mailto:bug-xorr...@gnu.org mailto:libburn-hack...@pykix.org mailto:cdwr...@other.debian.org or directly to me: mailto:scdbac...@gmx.net Have a nice day :) Thomas _______________________________________________ GNU Announcement mailing list <info-gnu@gnu.org> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnu
