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| author | fanquake <fanquake@gmail.com> | 2020-02-15 20:38:18 +0800 |
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| committer | Carl Dong <contact@carldong.me> | 2020-12-16 12:29:14 -0500 |
| commit | 0df98191268fe641dd5d12e3a9f517c0c5cfacdd (patch) | |
| tree | bd79448b29b4cbfeebbed0a839909352f55b33d7 /contrib/macdeploy | |
| parent | 22437fc72e78ba3845a3953853d40093de32c395 (diff) | |
| download | bitcoin-0df98191268fe641dd5d12e3a9f517c0c5cfacdd.tar.xz | |
build: Replace genisoimage with xorriso
xorriso and its mkisofs/genisoimage emulation alter-ego xorrisofs are
more maintained, and has the right toggles for us to achieve output
determinism without using blunt tools like faketime.
In this commit, we use xorrisofs from the build environment rather than
building it ourselves using depends. This is not necessary and can be
changed in the future.
From https://wiki.debian.org/genisoimage?action=recall&rev=11 :
> The classical command line interface for production of ISO 9660
> filesystem images is the option set established by program mkisofs.
> For reasons of licensing and other problems with its author, Debian
> ships a fork of mkisofs, called genisoimage, which was split off in
> 2006 and then developed independently.
>
> Meanwhile, genisoimage gets no new features and not even bug fixes. It
> is first choice only if its options -udf or -hfs are needed.
>
> Replacement in most uses cases, especially for bootable ISO 9660
> filesystems, archiving, and backup, is xorrisofs which starts the -as
> mkisofs emulation mode of program xorriso.
Diffstat (limited to 'contrib/macdeploy')
| -rw-r--r-- | contrib/macdeploy/README.md | 14 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/contrib/macdeploy/README.md b/contrib/macdeploy/README.md index 6c3db2620b..2d9a4a2153 100644 --- a/contrib/macdeploy/README.md +++ b/contrib/macdeploy/README.md @@ -92,19 +92,15 @@ created using these tools. The build process has been designed to avoid includin SDK's files in Gitian's outputs. All interim tarballs are fully deterministic and may be freely redistributed. -`genisoimage` is used to create the initial DMG. It is not deterministic as-is, so it has been -patched. A system `genisoimage` will work fine, but it will not be deterministic because -the file-order will change between invocations. The patch can be seen here: [cdrkit-deterministic.patch](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/depends/patches/native_cdrkit/cdrkit-deterministic.patch). -No effort was made to fix this cleanly, so it likely leaks memory badly, however it's only used for -a single invocation, so that's no real concern. +[`xorrisofs`](https://www.gnu.org/software/xorriso/) is used to create the DMG. -`genisoimage` cannot compress DMGs, so afterwards, the DMG tool from the -`libdmg-hfsplus` project is used to compress it. There are several bugs in this tool and its -maintainer has seemingly abandoned the project. +`xorrisofs` cannot compress DMGs, so afterwards, the DMG tool from the +`libdmg-hfsplus` project is used to compress it. There are several bugs in this +tool and its maintainer has seemingly abandoned the project. The DMG tool has the ability to create DMGs from scratch as well, but this functionality is broken. Only the compression feature is currently used. Ideally, the creation could be fixed -and `genisoimage` would no longer be necessary. +and `xorrisofs` would no longer be necessary. Background images and other features can be added to DMG files by inserting a `.DS_Store` during creation. |