Thank you for your kind explanation. Yes, Slackware forum ID 14.2 will be the same when Slackware 16.0 is current.

Again, just like Monsieur Marav said, the number 14 from name of our subforum: "slackware-14" means the 14th row in a database table of this site, just like "centos-111" means the 111th row in the same database table. It has nothing to do with Slackware 14.2

This "ID 14" was from beginning, when was created this subforum, and probably the Slackware was probably on release 9.1 and will be 'till this site (and/or this subforum) will exists, no matter which release will have Slackware in the future.

building DVD builds but ha errors and ommits stuff

rive current: -outdev 'stdio:/tmp/slackware-dvd.iso'
Media current: stdio file, overwriteable
Media status : is blank
Media summary: 0 sessions, 0 data blocks, 0 data, 154g free
xorriso : WARNING : -volid text does not comply to ISO 9660 / ECMA 119 rules
Added to ISO image: directory '/'='/var/ftp/pub/slackware-15.0'
xorriso : UPDATE : 5680 files added in 1 seconds
xorriso : UPDATE : 5680 files added in 1 seconds
xorriso : NOTE : Copying to System Area: 432 bytes from file '/usr/share/syslinux/isohdpfx.bin'
libisofs: WARNING : Cannot add /extra/java to Joliet tree. Symlinks can only be added to a Rock Ridge tree.
libisofs: WARNING : Cannot add /extra/source/alpine to Joliet tree. Symlinks can only be added to a Rock Ridge tree.
libisofs: WARNING : Cannot add /isolinux/sbootmgr/RAWRITE13.EXE to Joliet tree. Symlinks can only be added to a Rock Ridge tree.
libisofs: WARNING : Cannot add /slackware/PACKAGES.TXT to Joliet tree. Symlinks can only be added to a Rock Ridge tree.
libisofs: WARNING : Cannot add /usb-and-pxe-installers/etherboot/RAWRITE13.EXE to Joliet tree. Symlinks can only be added to a Rock Ridge tree.
libisofs: NOTE : Automatically adjusted MBR geometry to 1022/234/32


I reverted to using ol faithful mkisofs (which i prefer anyway) and no problems, so something got lot in trying to change to xorro

You failed to share your commandline. The xorriso program adds Rock Ridge by default, so perhaps you added ' -rockridge "off" ' ?

The suggested command in Pat's README throws those warnings. I noticed them too.

I don't think they're anything to worry about. Joliet just doesn't support symlinks is all, and that's fine as the rock-ridge extension will handle all the UNIXy stuff and joliet is for Microsoft OSes.

I'm not sure what the problem with the 'SlackDVD' volid is supposed to be. Should it be upper-case only to be conformant or something? Anyway, it doesn't seem to do any harm.

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According to the ECMA-119 standard, § 8.4.6 the characters in the Volume Identifier (BP 41 to 72) shall be d-characters. The § 7.4.1 lists these characters and ECMA-6 identify them as digits 0 to 9, upper case letters A to Z and "low line" (aka underscore or "_").

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Thanks Didier, I tried to search for ecma-119 but all I found were sites trying to sell me a copy.

https://www.ecma-international.org/p...ards/ecma-119/
Note that this is the same content as in ISO-9660, but ECMA standards are free to download.

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Please mark this thread finally as solved and close it. I can't sleep well until then!

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Take Guarana - no sleep

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Yeah, I would like this thread terminated, and two new threads: "requests for 15.0 patches", and "requests for -current 15.0 -> 15.1".

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An update to util-linux 2.37.4 would be nice

Why not just stop responding to it and let it die to obscurity?

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1. It's a sticky thread.
2. There are no threads to replace it.

1. No more
2. https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...-a-4175706801/