fai-cd svn Rev 6265 mkisofs -> genisoimage

Michael Prokop mika at grml.org
Tue May 10 12:32:03 CEST 2011


Hi,

* Syd Alsobrook [Tue May 03, 2011 at 09:43:57AM -0400]:

> This change to fai-cd does generate a mostly working iso. However, the change 
> uses a "-r" when a "-R" is actually needed. I chased this down because cfagent 
> was throwing a permissions error in the live boot environment.

> According to the genisoimage man page the "-r" does what normally would be 
> consider the sane thing and sets all directories to 555. This makes sense as 
> most people will want the cdfs to be readable by normal users. The problem is 
> that cfagent doesn't like it's /var/lib directories to be readable by others 
> and will not run.

> The "-R" tells genisoimage to copy the perms as specified in the source 
> directory. With this option cfagent runs correctly and all is well.

I just noticed that Thomas commited this as svn r6522.

I cherry-picked the patch for inclusion in the upcoming 3.4.8
stable release.

Thanks for reporting, Syd!

regards,
-mika-
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