Re: MBF alert: packages with very long source / .deb filenames

2011-03-25 Thread Olaf van der Spek
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 5:27 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote: >>Why's that? Isn't UDF widely supported? > > Implementations often widely differ in their limitations - see the > Wikipedia page for more details. The suggested way to make a safe UDF > DVD is often along the lines of "use the ISO9660 bridge

Re: MBF alert: packages with very long source / .deb filenames

2011-03-25 Thread Olaf van der Spek
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 5:08 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote: >>64 is quite low. Is there no way to use longer filenames that still >>works on all required platforms? > > To do that, we'll have to switch to a different filesystem. That's a > possibility (maybe UDF), but there's probably even more of a ch

Re: MBF alert: packages with very long source / .deb filenames

2011-03-25 Thread Olaf van der Spek
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 3:17 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote: > users. The problem is that Joliet has a limit for filename length (64 > characters), and technically we're already past that length. From > genisoimage.1: 64 is quite low. Is there no way to use longer filenames that still works on all requ