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Re: Hey, what happened to cdrecord?

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At Thu, 07 Jul 2011 05:28:40 -0700 Feranija <feranija@net...> wrote:

> 
> On 2011-07-07 04:56, unruh wrote:
> > On 2011-07-07, Charles Packer<mailbox@cpacker.org>  wrote:
> >> If the following two commands don't mean anything,
> >> plese ignore this posting:
> >>
> >> mkisofs -r -R -J -l -L -o atemp.iso atemp
> >> cdrecord -v -eject speed=4 dev=ATA:1,1,0 -multi atemp.iso
> >>
> >> Under Fedora 5 for years I used the above to write data to a
> >> CDROM. After upgrading to a much more recent Fedora version,
> >> the second command fails with error messages from something
> >> called "wombin" -- it didn't like the "dev=ATA:1,1,0"
> >> in my invocation of cdrecord. So...I did a "man" on "cdrecord"
> >> and...it's been eaten by "wombin"! In lieu of spending a
> >> couple of hours decoding man-speak and Googling for
> >> example code, I thought I would check in here to see if
> >> anybody knew right off how to fix this.
> >
> > There has been an ongoing, totally childish battle between Schilling and
> > the distros (led by Debian). The debian people do not like Schilling (he
> > can be stubborn and ascerbic, but writes good code) and are using what
> > they claim (probably wrongly) are problems with incompatibility with the
> > CDDL and GPL (ignoring the huge incompatibilities between GPL2 and 3)
> > to not use cdrecord, but rather a bastardised version of an ancient (7
> > year old) release of cdrecord. Schilling refuses to release cdrecord
> > under the GPL to mollify them. And so the impass continues. A couple of
> > years ago, some of the debian people said they would start including
> > cdrecord (not their bastardized wodim) in the release, but it never
> > happened.
> >
> > The way to fix it is to download Schilling's cdrecord package (cdrtools)
> > from cdrecord.berlios.de, and compile and install it. That way you will
> > have an operating, up-to-date version on your system.
> > It would be nice if Schilling included a spec file so you could make it
> > an rpm package, but it is not necessary.
> 
> 
> Did you know the OP is running Fedora which uses the orignal 
> Schilling's cdrecord ?

Old Fedora (V5) may have used the orignal Schilling's cdrecord. 
Appearently more current versions of Fedora don't.

> 
> 
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Hey, what happened to cdrecord? Charles Packer <mailbox@cpacker.org> - 2011-07-07 04:20 -0700
  Re: Hey, what happened to cdrecord? unruh <unruh@wormhole.physics.ubc.ca> - 2011-07-07 11:56 +0000
    Re: Hey, what happened to cdrecord? Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2011-07-07 10:01 -0500
    Re: Hey, what happened to cdrecord? unruh <unruh@wormhole.physics.ubc.ca> - 2011-07-07 18:51 +0000
      Re: Hey, what happened to cdrecord? Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2011-07-07 15:09 -0500
      Re: Hey, what happened to cdrecord? Feranija <feranija@net...> - 2011-07-07 16:42 -0700
    Re: Hey, what happened to cdrecord? js@cs.tu-berlin.de (Joerg Schilling) - 2011-07-10 11:03 +0000
  Re: Hey, what happened to cdrecord? "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org> - 2011-07-08 03:21 -0400
    Re: Hey, what happened to cdrecord? Charles Packer <mailbox@cpacker.org> - 2011-07-08 04:35 -0700
  Re: Hey, what happened to cdrecord? js@cs.tu-berlin.de (Joerg Schilling) - 2011-07-10 10:36 +0000
  Re: Hey, what happened to cdrecord? "Charlie Gibbs" <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2011-07-14 13:01 -0800
    Re: Hey, what happened to cdrecord? js@cs.tu-berlin.de (Joerg Schilling) - 2011-07-16 20:03 +0000

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