Joliet and release ISOs?

[John Hay]

On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 09:56:34PM -0700, Tim Kientzle wrote:
> Do we need Joliet extensions on the release ISOs?
> 
> The reason I ask is a little involved:  jkim@ recently
> pointed out to me that tar in -CURRENT can no longer
> extract symlinks from the release ISOs.
> 
> I tracked this down to the fact that the release ISOs
> have both Joliet and RockRidge extensions and tar now
> supports (and actually prefers) Joliet extensions when
> it sees them. Joliet doesn't support symlinks, so tar
> doesn't see symlinks on disks with both kinds of extensions.
> 
> There's a workaround that people can use for now:
>     tar xf image.iso --options=!joliet
> disables the Joliet support.
> 
> I'm curious whether removing the -J option from
> /usr/src/release/*/mkisoimages.sh is an option.

What is the reason for prefering Juliet in tar? Can't we just swap
the preference?

John
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