[haiku-commits] Re: r41735 - haiku/trunk/build/scripts

  • From: Matt Madia <mattmadia@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-commits@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 21:06:03 +0000

On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 12:52, Alex von Gluck <kallisti5@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> genisoimage is a GPL fork that started ~2006 of an older version of
> mkisofs as the author decided to re-license mkisofs CDDL.
> (http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2006/09/msg00002.html)
>
> I'd say we support our Debian brethren and make an attempt to use
> genisoimage (Definitely as a last resort however :P)  The iso I
> generated with that tool seemed to work and didn't cut off
> any long filenames.

But then what about supporting variants of YASM?  of jam?
What about supporting all of FreeBSD's tools, instead of needing to
install GNU software?
IMO, it adds needless complexity.

-1 on supporting genisoimage.

--mmadia

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