new directory from module? [solved]

Post#1 by **pfisher** » 21 Mar 2018, 20:25

I have a module containing a directory with dozens of files for a local site. When the kiosk iso runs, those files end up extracting to the root level, loose. Is there a way to make my module simply implement a folder (anywhere, so long as it is predictable and can be set to homepage)? Otherwise, would I need to have a script run at start to create a directory and then copy all the files into it (ugh)? That seems like it would take too long each startup. In other words, I am hoping:

some_module.xzm
|-->directory
|---->files

can extract somewhere predictable and retain that structure so "homepage" looks for /directory/files as below

root
|-->same directory name
|---->same directory files

I've seen posts about it but the closest I've come is all the files loose at the root level, as mentioned.

Post#2 by **Ed_P** » 21 Mar 2018, 23:22

How did you make module.xzm? What commands did you use?

Post#3 by **pfisher** » 22 Mar 2018, 16:33

Hi. I used the prescribed method of

mksquashfs /(from location)/* /(to location)/xzm/05-website.xzm -comp xz -b 256K -Xbcj x86 -noappend

Thank you

Post#4 by **pfisher** » 22 Mar 2018, 16:56

You asking the question made me dig further and I did find the option for mksquashfs of "keep-as-directory". I suspect you may have been getting at that, so I will try it and update this thread.

Post#5 by **fanthom** » 22 Mar 2018, 17:21

You need to run the mksquashfs command against the top folder and not the files inside the folder.
Top folder wont be included in the module.

Thanks

Post#6 by **Ed_P** » 22 Mar 2018, 17:28

pfisher wrote: ↑
22 Mar 2018, 16:56
I suspect you may have been getting at that,

Actually I was thinking of a fanthom command called dir2xzm. But the same command and options are used in it.

Post#7 by **pfisher** » 23 Mar 2018, 12:25

fanthom wrote: ↑
22 Mar 2018, 17:21
You need to run the mksquashfs command against the top folder and not the files inside the folder.
Top folder wont be included in the module.

Thanks

I used the same mksquashfs command as mentioned earlier, but without the /* in order to do it against the top folder. It produced the same result. I will try the keep-as-directory option next and report back. Thanks for your time!

Post#8 by **pfisher** » 23 Mar 2018, 14:28

Using keep-as-directory worked as I hoped. I now have a directory at the root level containing all my local web files.