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[griffin tucker]

hi,

are there any plans to introduce triple-layer blu-rays for debian?

it'd be nice to have everything fit (currently just over 80gb) in one
.iso9660 file

even if it's just the .jigdo files and hashes that are distributed,
it'd be nice to have this as an official .iso9660 file for
security/hashing purposes

when debian grows to over 100gb, i'd expect yet another single-file
option, if the community agrees

thoughts?

--griffin

[Thomas Schmitt]

Hi,

Post by griffin tucker
are there any plans to introduce triple-layer blu-rays for debian?

I guess not:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1011343

But there is a workaround:
https://wiki.debian.org/MergeDebianIsos

Possibly it is not yet tested with Debian 12. So reports about success or
failure would be welcome.


Have a nice day :)

Thomas

[griffin tucker]

very useful, thanks thomas

not just useful for debian or linux distros, but any consecutively
named .iso9660 files

Post by Thomas Schmitt
Hi,

Post by griffin tucker
are there any plans to introduce triple-layer blu-rays for debian?

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1011343
https://wiki.debian.org/MergeDebianIsos
Possibly it is not yet tested with Debian 12. So reports about success or
failure would be welcome.
Have a nice day :)
Thomas

[Thomas Schmitt]

Hi,

Post by griffin tucker
not just useful for debian or linux distros, but any consecutively
named .iso9660 files

I assume that the script merge_debian_isos is mainly usable with a set of
ISOs made by the debian-cd package. The files of which the content gets
manipulated are probably specific to debian-installer.

But of course its mount operations and its xorriso run demonstrate how to
merge multiple ISO 9660 filesystems without refering to Debian specific
files.
In the general case i would expect the need for some kind of file
collision handling. I.e. what to do with differing data files which have
the same path in different ISOs.

(Actually the names of the input ISOs can be quite arbitrary. The script
expects a list of paths. I'm not sure whether anybody tested input names
which are not single words.)


Have a nice day :)

Thomas