#278 ocs-live-dev zip or tar need flag to specify and not let it to chance

[Mircea Dan]

when i create live images using ocs-live-dev
if the image is small enough it will have zip extension
if the image is big it will have tar extension

it is posible to set a flag to force to always have .tar

--file-name-prefix alows us to specify teh file name, but the extension is always chosen

-c, --create-release Create a USB package release file, this will not create a bootable device, instead it will create a zip file contain all necessary files to make it boot and run clonezilla live.

it says it will create zip, but if the image is to large it is actualy a tar (due to some zip bug)

anyway this behaviour creates files with either zip or tar extension , enforcing to be tar via an option will be helpfull.

PS: help shoudl be aupdated to reflect the fact that --create-release may craete also a tar not only a zip.

[Mircea Dan]

i see in the code "ocs-live-dev" there is a
prefer_archive="zip"

will be good if this coudl come from a --prefer-archive flag

[Mircea Dan]

-z|--prefer-archive)
        shift
        if [ -z "$(echo $1 |grep ^-.)" ]; then
          # skip the -xx option, in case 
          prefer_archive="$1"
          shift
        fi
    [ -z "$prefer_archive" ] && USAGE && exit 1
        ;;

[Steven Shiau]

Thanks for the patch. Applied in clonezilla package 3.27.15 and will be used in next Clonezilla live testing release.

Steven

[Mircea Dan]

thank you very much will give it a try