[solved] cdrtools upgrade needed
Posted: 16. Aug 2012, 09:50
About 2 months ago, Slackware current updated cdrtools, from 3.01a02 to 3.01a07.
There is a (regression) bug in mkisofs (part of cdrtools) introduced in 3.01a05, and it is still present in 3.01a07.
Yesterday (2012AUG15), cdrtools 3.01a08 was released, and the bug is supposed to be resolved. (Note: I can't confirm if the bug was effectively resolved, as I am not a developer.)
Since Slackware 14.0 RC2 is already out, I was hoping that someone in The Salix Team would be willing to follow the necessary steps so the developer(s) of Slackware would update cdrtools to 3.01a08 (from the current 3.01a07) before the final stable Slackware 14 would be out (Note: I don't know if there are any other factors to be considered.).
FWIW, here are some more details about the specific bug I am referring to:
In mkisofs 3.010a05, a new "-modification-date" option was added, but it also broke the standard "creation date and time" field, making the resulting ISO images incompatible with the ECMA119 standard. Some archive / file managers that follow ECMA119 were unable to open those resulting ISO images.
Since Salix Team members probably already know the necessary steps to make this happen (update cdrtools in Slackware current before Slackware 14 final), maybe someone could take this request upstream ASAP?
TIA.
There is a (regression) bug in mkisofs (part of cdrtools) introduced in 3.01a05, and it is still present in 3.01a07.
Yesterday (2012AUG15), cdrtools 3.01a08 was released, and the bug is supposed to be resolved. (Note: I can't confirm if the bug was effectively resolved, as I am not a developer.)
Since Slackware 14.0 RC2 is already out, I was hoping that someone in The Salix Team would be willing to follow the necessary steps so the developer(s) of Slackware would update cdrtools to 3.01a08 (from the current 3.01a07) before the final stable Slackware 14 would be out (Note: I don't know if there are any other factors to be considered.).
FWIW, here are some more details about the specific bug I am referring to:
In mkisofs 3.010a05, a new "-modification-date" option was added, but it also broke the standard "creation date and time" field, making the resulting ISO images incompatible with the ECMA119 standard. Some archive / file managers that follow ECMA119 were unable to open those resulting ISO images.
Since Salix Team members probably already know the necessary steps to make this happen (update cdrtools in Slackware current before Slackware 14 final), maybe someone could take this request upstream ASAP?
TIA.
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