On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 6:44 PM, Lasse Schuirmann <lasse.schuirmann@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 2014-05-29 19:37 GMT+02:00 Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) <zeeshanak@xxxxxxxxx>: >> On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 4:44 PM, Lasse Schuirmann >> <lasse.schuirmann@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> This makes archive handling a bit easier for people using libarchive >>> since they don't need to support hardlinks in archives which is >>> complicated. (E.g. gnomes file-roller and KDEs Ark do not support >>> hardlinks, there are probably more implementations that don't.) >> >> Looks good otherwise. Two comments below: >> >>> (Note that the file bodies lie on different locations in the >>> 32bit/64bit isos. I have checked both isos, this is intentionally.) >> >> Didn't quite understand that. >> >>> >From 5d4d60aa9d1981ac9b1896228df7fe57cd54559f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 >>> From: Lasse Schuirmann <lasse.schuirmann@xxxxxxxxx> >>> Date: Thu, 29 May 2014 17:31:48 +0200 >>> Subject: [PATCH] fedora: Adjust initrd/kernel paths to real file >>> >>> The new paths point to the archive entries containing also the body of >>> the file. The other entries are just hardlinks. >>> --- >>> data/oses/fedora.xml.in | 6 +++--- >>> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) >>> >>> diff --git a/data/oses/fedora.xml.in b/data/oses/fedora.xml.in >>> index 27cdd4a..f33fdb0 100644 >>> --- a/data/oses/fedora.xml.in >>> +++ b/data/oses/fedora.xml.in >>> @@ -1469,8 +1469,8 @@ >>> <volume-id>Fedora 20.* i386</volume-id> >>> <system-id>LINUX</system-id> >>> </iso> >>> - <kernel>isolinux/vmlinuz</kernel> >>> - <initrd>isolinux/initrd.img</initrd> >>> + <kernel>images/pxeboot/vmlinuz</kernel> >>> + <initrd>images/pxeboot/initrd.img</initrd> >>> </media> >>> <media arch="x86_64"> >>> <url>http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/20/Fedora/x86_64/iso/Fedora-20-x86_64-DVD.iso</url> >>> @@ -1479,7 +1479,7 @@ >>> <system-id>LINUX</system-id> >>> </iso> >>> <kernel>isolinux/vmlinuz</kernel> >> >> Forgot this one? > No, this is what you didn't understand above. > > Let me rephrase: > > The kernel paths are intentionally different in the two isos. > > If you look in the isos, you'll see that in the 32 bit iso: > - isolinux/vmlinuz is a hardlink to images/pxeboot/vmlinux > - isolinux/initrd.img is a hardlink to images/pxeboot/initrd.img > > In the 64 bit iso: > - /images/pxeboot/vmlinux is a hardlink to isolinux/vmlinuz > - isolinux/initrd.img is a hardlink to images/pxeboot/initrd.img > > What is the hardlink and what is the "real file" is determined during > the compression process nondeterministically. (To be exact the first > occurrence will be the "real" file [entry + body] and the following > will be only the entries without body in this archive format IIRC.) > That is the reason while the paths of the 32 bit iso and the 64 bit > iso differ. Thanks so much for explaining in detail. Could you please update the log to explain better so idiots like me can't get confused? :) -- Regards, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) ________________________________________ Befriend GNOME: http://www.gnome.org/friends/ _______________________________________________ Libosinfo mailing list Libosinfo@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libosinfo
