Re: Migrations to xorriso

2010-05-20 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > I'm thinking to allow passing arbitrary options to xorriso by just > putting it on command line. > Do you recommend to switching to native xorriso interface? There are differences how file names without "=" are handled. xorriso maps /my/dir to /my/dir. xorriso -as mkisofs maps /my/dir to /d

Re: Migrations to xorriso

2010-05-20 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, attached is an updated patch to summarize my current proposal for grub-mkrescue. My reply to mails of Vladimir and Seth seems still stuck in eggs.gnu.org. (At least that was the culprit last time.) The current proposal follows Vladimir's idea: > I'm thinking to allow passing arbitrary optio

Re: Migrations to xorriso

2010-05-19 Thread Seth Goldberg
Quoting Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko, who wrote the following on...: Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, Isaac Dupree wrote: What size range are the whole images? The minimum output of grub-mkrescue 1.98 with xorriso is 1544192 bytes. grub-mkisofs: 1550336 genisoimage: 1859584 (-307200 w

Re: Migrations to xorriso

2010-05-19 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > reviewing my grub-mkrescue 1.98 test script > i see these options which will cause the files > in /boot to have low block addresses: > >xorriso ... -as mkisofs ... \ >--sort-weight 0 / --sort-weight 1 /boot \ >... > > The boot catalog gets a low LBA by de

Re: Migrations to xorriso

2010-05-19 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > Isaac Dupree wrote: > >> What size range are the whole images? >> > > The minimum output of grub-mkrescue 1.98 with > xorriso is 1544192 bytes. > grub-mkisofs: 1550336 > genisoimage: 1859584 (-307200 with -no-pad) > > One may add lots of other files, of cou

Re: Migrations to xorriso

2010-05-19 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > >>> - Option --diet saves about 400 kB of image >>> size without losing much benefit. >>> >> If it doesn't lose much, >> why would it not be the default? >> > > Maybe one should revert the default and offer > an option > --multi-session-toc > inste

Re: Migrations to xorriso

2010-05-19 Thread Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > would the following changes be acceptable for > grub-mkrescue ? > > - Option --xorriso=PROGFILE allows to use a > particular binary as xorriso program. > This will avoid the need to install xorriso. > One can just unpack and build it in some > directory and

Re: Migrations to xorriso

2010-05-19 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, reviewing my grub-mkrescue 1.98 test script i see these options which will cause the files in /boot to have low block addresses: xorriso ... -as mkisofs ... \ --sort-weight 0 / --sort-weight 1 /boot \ ... The boot catalog gets a low LBA by default. I remember Vladimir mentioned tha

Re: Migrations to xorriso

2010-05-19 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Isaac Dupree wrote: > What size range are the whole images? The minimum output of grub-mkrescue 1.98 with xorriso is 1544192 bytes. grub-mkisofs: 1550336 genisoimage: 1859584 (-307200 with -no-pad) One may add lots of other files, of course. > Also I guess no one compresses whole ISOs I

Re: Migrations to xorriso

2010-05-19 Thread Isaac Dupree
On 05/19/10 08:13, Colin Watson wrote: On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 02:01:50PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: - Option --diet saves about 400 kB of image size without losing much benefit. I don't have much of an opinion on this; but if it doesn't lose much, why would it not be the default? Or, pu

Re: Migrations to xorriso

2010-05-19 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > > - Option --diet saves about 400 kB of image > > size without losing much benefit. > If it doesn't lose much, > why would it not be the default? Maybe one should revert the default and offer an option --multi-session-toc instead ? > Or, put another way, why would > somebody want to

Re: Migrations to xorriso

2010-05-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 02:01:50PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > would the following changes be acceptable for > grub-mkrescue ? > > - Option --xorriso=PROGFILE allows to use a > particular binary as xorriso program. > This will avoid the need to install xorriso. > One can just unpack and

Re: Migrations to xorriso

2010-05-19 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, would the following changes be acceptable for grub-mkrescue ? - Option --xorriso=PROGFILE allows to use a particular binary as xorriso program. This will avoid the need to install xorriso. One can just unpack and build it in some directory and use .../xorriso/xorriso as binary. -

Re: Migrations to xorriso

2010-05-18 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, while my local bzr upgrade problems still persist i can view grub-mkrescue.in at https://code.launchpad.net/~vcs-imports/grub/grub2-bzr > xorriso -pathspecs on -as mkisofs I would make this xorriso -report_about HINT -as mkisofs -graft-points Option -report_about HINT will reduce verb

Re: Migrations to xorriso

2010-05-18 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i sent this message 4 hours ago but it did not show up yet. So i send it again on the risk to produce a duplicate. While my local bzr upgrade problems still persist i can view grub-mkrescue.in at https://code.launchpad.net/~vcs-imports/grub