mkisofs VolumeID 32 character limitation

[Joel Andres Granados]

Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Thursday 12 April 2007 12:06:19 Joel Andres Granados wrote:
>   
>> Possible fix: make sure to snip off the label before creating the
>> isoimage.  With the patch I'm trying to cut the id to an allowable
>> size.  Although I *do* cut the original name and I don't know what the
>> effects are in the installations.  I did run pungi and it ended with no
>> errors.
>> Comments: when the was shortened from the config file pungi executed
>> successfully.  comments greatly appreciated.
>>     
>
> I've been reluctant to fix this part of the code for a while.  I'm not really 
> sure what a good thing to do here is, truncation can be kind of ugly, but it 
> should have no effect upon the install, it'll just effect what the desktop 
> shows as the volume should you mount the CD.
>   
Thats what I thought as well,  I'll do an install test with one of the 
truncated IDs and see
if it works

> Perhaps this is a good enough solution for now, to prevent strange failures.  
> I'll apply it soon, thanks.
>   
np

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