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Re: Hey, what happened to cdrecord?

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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. 

 
>
> --
> Charles Packer
> http://cpacker.org/whatnews
> mailboxATcpacker.org

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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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