[Bug 608648] Re: grub-mkrescue is missing dependency on xorriso

[dfong63]

i ran into this issue just now.  if you don't want to add a dependency,
then how about a more direct error message from grub-mkrescue, saying
that this particular utility requires that xorriso be installed?

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Title:
  grub-mkrescue is missing dependency on xorriso

Status in “grub2” package in Ubuntu:
  Won't Fix

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: grub2

  $ grub-mkrescue  --output=myrescue.iso
  Enabling BIOS support ...
  /usr/bin/grub-mkrescue: 323: xorriso: not found

  $ sudo apt-get install xorriso
  ...
  $ grub-mkrescue  --output=myrescue.iso
  Enabling BIOS support ...
  xorriso 0.5.6 : RockRidge filesystem manipulator, libburnia project.

  $ ls -l myrescue.iso 
  -rw------- 1 ubuntu ubuntu 1835008 2010-07-22 10:05 myrescue.iso

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
  Package: grub-common 1.98+20100720-1ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: User Name 2.6.32-305.9-ec2 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
  Uname: Linux 2.6.32-305-ec2 x86_64
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Thu Jul 22 09:58:24 2010
  Ec2AMI: ami-a4dc37cd
  Ec2AMIManifest: ubuntu-images-testing-us/ubuntu-maverick-daily-amd64-server-20100722.manifest.xml
  Ec2AvailabilityZone: us-east-1b
  Ec2InstanceType: m1.large
  Ec2Kernel: aki-427d952b
  Ec2Ramdisk: unavailable
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: grub2

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