[Debburn-devel] [PATCH] genisoimage documentation updates

Eduard Bloch edi at gmx.de
Wed Dec 13 08:17:13 CET 2006


#include <hallo.h>
* Peter Samuelson [Tue, Dec 12 2006, 03:32:51PM]:
> 
> [Lorenz Minder]
> > Below are some documentation updates to genisoimage.
> 
> OK, I've added your patch to my working copy (except in the many areas
> where I'd already made equivalent edits), with the exception of these
> two bits:
> 
> ======================================================================
> @@ -819,10 +815,9 @@
>  Use with caution.
>  .TP
>  .B \-L
> -Outdated option reserved by POSIX.1-2001, use
> +Outdated option; use
>  .B \-allow\-leading\-dots
>  instead.
> -This option will get POSIX.1-2001 semantics with genisoimage-2.02.
>  .TP
>  .BI \-jigdo\-jigdo " jigdo_file
>  Produce a jigdo .jigdo file as well as the .iso. See the
> @@ -1044,10 +1024,9 @@
>  then the list is read from the standard input.
>  .TP
>  .B \-P
> -Outdated option reserved by POSIX.1-2001, use
> +Outdated option; use
>  .B \-publisher
>  instead.
> -This option will get POSIX.1-2001 semantics with genisoimage-2.02.
>  .TP
>  .BI \-publisher " publisher_id
>  Specifies a text string that will be written into the volume header.
> ======================================================================
> 
> What is our plan with regard to those alleged POSIX options?

For me, I would keep them just the way they are. Because Schilling's
attempts to kill them in the name of some claimed POSIX compliancy
already broke at least one GUI program (http://www.xcdroast.org/). This
may lead to more more divergence and more work for GUI authors, but we
will see.

Eduard.
-- 
OpenBSD fails miserably in this respect, and makes for an example of how NOT
to work with the community on security issues.  Their approach is, roughly,
"we fixed this a while ago but didn't tell anyone, so you're vulnerable and
we're not, ha-ha-ha".



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