Bug 538390

Summary: kiwi: genisoimage options: joliet & '-f'
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE 11.2 Reporter: Steffen Winterfeldt <snwint>
Component: InstallationAssignee: Marcus Schaefer <ms>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity: Normal    
Priority: P3 - Medium CC: coolo
Version: Factory   
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Description Steffen Winterfeldt 2009-09-11 12:46:46 UTC
[see bug 428924]
Comment 1 Steffen Winterfeldt 2009-09-11 12:59:09 UTC
[Sorry, hit submit too early...]

We currently (via KIWI) create media with Joliet extension but without the
'-f' option [follow links] to genisoimage. The problem with this is that
Joliet only extends filenames but not filetypes (unlike RR). So symlinks
are lost.

The outcome is that people copying our media to a server with some Windows
software won't get it right. (ISTR we got reports in that area from the
s390 side in the past.)

I've checked a few of our old media and e.g. sles11 is ok (mastered with
-J & -f) while 11.1 is not (only -J).

I think the -f got lost when we switched to kiwi. Maybe we should
add -f again.
Comment 2 Marcus Schaefer 2009-09-12 19:26:33 UTC
fixed