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Minimalist in-memory diskless Linux distribution based on OpenWrt
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Linux: it seems that the package mkisofs has become obsolete (at least on Debian 9x) #1

Closed olevole closed 6 years ago

olevole commented 6 years ago

Hi,

build host:

% uname -a
Linux debian 4.9.0-7-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.110-1 (2018-07-05) x86_64 GNU/Linux

% lsb_release  -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Debian
Description:    Debian GNU/Linux 9.5 (stretch)
Release:        9.5
Codename:       stretch

mkisofs not available as a 'mkisofs' package on Debian (9x)

Package mkisofs is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
However the following packages replace it:
  genisoimage

It is desirable to write about this in BUILD file. And also, we can try to check at once two options:

MKISO_CMD=$( which mkisofs || which genisoimage )

As work-around, after genisoimage installation we can make a symbolic link for mfslinux:

ln -s /usr/bin/genisoimage /usr/bin/mkisofs