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Re: Hey, what happened to cdrecord?

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At Thu, 07 Jul 2011 18:51:32 GMT unruh <unruh@wormhole.physics.ubc.ca> wrote:

> 
> On 2011-07-07, 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 ?
> 
> Uh, no, he is using wodim. 
> (which is how I read his "wombin")

On CentOS 5 (based on FC5 I think) has the orignal Schilling's
cdrecord, by FC15 has a wodim rpm instead:

sauron.deepsoft.com% rpm -qi cdrecord                                   
Name        : cdrecord                     Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version     : 2.01                              Vendor: CentOS
Release     : 10.7.el5                      Build Date: Wed 11 Mar 2009
01:36:00 PM EDT
Install Date: Fri 08 Jan 2010 11:35:39 AM EST      Build Host: chamkaur.karan.org
Group       : Applications/Archiving        Source RPM: cdrtools-2.01-10.7.el5.src.rpm
Size        : 1411838                          License: GPL
Signature   : DSA/SHA1, Tue 17 Mar 2009 07:30:35 AM EDT, Key ID a8a447dce8562897
Packager    : Karanbir Singh <kbsingh@karan.org>
URL         : http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/cdrecord.html
Summary     : A command line CD/DVD recording program.
Description :
Cdrecord is an application for creating audio and data CDs. Cdrecord
works with many different brands of CD recorders, fully supports
multi-sessions and provides human-readable error messages.

sauron.deepsoft.com% rpm -qip /fc15x86_64/Packages/wodim-1.1.11-5.fc15.x86_64.rpm
warning: /fc15x86_64/Packages/wodim-1.1.11-5.fc15.x86_64.rpm: Header V3 RSA/SHA256 signature: NOKEY, key ID 069c8460
Name        : wodim                        Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version     : 1.1.11                            Vendor: Fedora Project
Release     : 5.fc15                        Build Date: Mon 07 Mar 2011
11:41:58 AM EST
Install Date: (not installed)               Build Host: x86-15.phx2.fedoraproject.org
Group       : Applications/Archiving        Source RPM: cdrkit-1.1.11-5.fc15.src.rpm
Size        : 1250606                          License: GPLv2
Signature   : RSA/8, Tue 08 Mar 2011 06:56:49 PM EST, Key ID b4ebf579069c8460
Packager    : Fedora Project
URL         : http://cdrkit.org/
Summary     : A command line CD/DVD recording program
Description :
Wodim is an application for creating audio and data CDs. Wodim
works with many different brands of CD recorders, fully supports
multi-sessions and provides human-readable error messages.


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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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