Bug#741656: grub-common: grub-mkrescue lost its -J flag, d-i now FTBFS on kfreebsd-*

[Colin Watson]

On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 12:37:17PM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> After having downgraded the installed grub-* packages, I've checked that
> using this syntax wouldn't work with past versions:
> | grub-mkrescue --output=./tmp/netboot-9/mini.iso ./tmp/netboot-9/cd_tree -- -J
> | Enabling BIOS support ...
> | xorriso 1.3.2 : RockRidge filesystem manipulator, libburnia project.
> | 
> | xorriso : FAILURE : Not a known command:  '-J'
> 
> I'm tempted to commit the '--' addition in debian-installer for now
> anyway, including a comment pointing here, and to lower the severity to
> important (since other callers might be affected as well).
> 
> Does that look OK to you?

It's not ideal, but I think it's reasonable for now, yes.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at debian.org]