[bug#27967] [PATCH] maint: Create an ISO9660 installation image in the 'release' target.

[Danny Milosavljevic]

Hi ng0,

On Sat, 19 Aug 2017 09:13:09 +0000
ng0 <address@hidden> wrote:

> Danny Milosavljevic transcribed 0.2K bytes:
> > Pushed to master as d79013f66a98dca24e11193c43e78364043d0c16 with minimal 
> > changes (to the generated filename to keep it the same as before).  This 
> > means that our releases can now also be booted from DVD.  
> 
> I think there's the need to mention .iso extensions of the files,
> pr .iso.xz in case we compress them.

Hmm... what would that improve?

> This hasn't happened in the commit.

Indeed it hasn't.  The file names are the same as in the original.  That's 
mainly because I don't know what other scripts (possibly not in the Guix git 
repo) use these names and expect them to be as they were.

Also, there are a lot of systems which will never boot from DVD and also don't 
use Grub but rather boot from some strange fixed-position sector.  For those 
we'd not use grub-mkrescue (and hence no iso but rather a whole-disk image of a 
hard drive).  But then these images' names would be different.

So in the end if we conditionally changed the name I think we'd increase our 
maintenance burden for no gain (that I can see).

I've submitted a patch adding ".iso" anyway just now - not applied.