Quoting Thomas Schmitt (scdbac...@gmx.net): > I do not really know how the /pool directories of a DVD set > are supposed to be related. > When testing my proposal i did not have a full set at hand > but rather used > > for i in debian*8.1*amd*iso > > which matched two ISOs in my collection of bootables: > debian-8.1.0-amd64-netinst.iso > debian-live-8.1.0-amd64-kde-desktop.iso > > Expectably they have many /pool files in common.
You got me there. All I had to try with was a pair of old lenny DVDs that I'd put by for bird-scarers for the garden. > If one wants to prevent overwriting but wants the xorriso > run to go on after a prevented overwrite attempt, one may > raise the abort threshold from default severity "FAILURE" > to "FATAL": > > xorriso -abort_on FATAL \ > -osirrox on:auto_chmod_on -overwrite off \ > ... > > This will still emit error messages like > xorriso : FAILURE : While restoring > '/u/test/poolA/main/x/xfsprogs/xfsprogs-udeb_3.2.1_amd64.udeb' : file object > exists and may not be overwritten > but courageously try to extract all other files. Excellent. I hadn't yet got to that bit in the... > The man page is huge, i confess. Everybody is invited to > ask for advise, e.g. at bug-xorr...@gnu.org . You know, you've put so much dir/file handling in there that I'll be demanding a pass-through mode (no .iso) like cpio has, for merging archives and the like :) Cheers, David.
