cdrtools-2.01a22 ready
NEW features of cdrtools-2.01a22:
Please have a look at the German open Source Center BerliOS at www.berlios.de
BerliOS will continue to support free hosting of cryptography projects even
when US laws change and don't allow to host cryptography projects in the USA.
Also look at sourcewell.berlios.de, the first Open Source announcement service
that itself is implemented as Open Source project.
***************** Important news ****************************
For the 'Slottable Source Plugin Module' SSPM Features read README.SSPM
***************** Please Test *********************************
NOTICE: for supporting the CW-7501 and for supporting SAO/DAO with the
Sony CDU-920, Sony CDU-924, Sony CDU-948, the driver interface has
been modified. This change did affect more than 3000 lines of code.
The new driver interface again is more simple and more extendable than
the old one, but the change may affect -dummy and -multi writing for
any other drive. Please test if the change did not introduce new bugs.
Also the change on the packet writing structures may affect packet writing.
The changes for the DVD+ drive/media recognition may affect drive or
media type recognition for any other drive.
The changes for DVD+RW & DVD+R media support may cause cdrecod to fail
in other circumstances.
With cdrecord-2.01a13, the track parsing has been completely rearranged
in order to support new features in the future. This causes a high risk
for bugs.
With cdrecord-2.01a14, CUE Sheet handling has been introduced and
1200 lines of new code has been integrated.
Please test.
GPL violation hint:
All recent SuSE distributions contain inofficial and modified versions
of cdrecord that are known to contain bugs and open new security holes.
At least SuSE 8.2 (maybe other SuSE releases too) did contain a modified
version of cdrecord that did violate the GPL § 2 Paragraph c) and
GPL Preamble Section 6 by not making clear that they published a modified
version that differs from the original and thus may have bug not found
in the official version. As the version published by SuSE definitely has bugs,
it is obvious that this hint is needed.
SuSE 9.0 mow seems to honor the GPL but the cdrecord binaries on SuSE 9.0
are definitely defective - please compile cdrecord yourself to get
binaries that work as expected.
Unfortunately, SuSE stopped sending free CD sets to developers about
9 months ago, so it is hard to get hold of these problems....
Hint for interested people: Solaris x86 is free for personal use and
the CD images may even be downloaded for free.
Also note that for the above reasons, it is always a good idea to compile
cdrtools yourself from official sources in order make sure that you run
an official version.
All:
- New macros to platorm intependantly set up integers in little endian
format. This is needed to e.g. write PC disk labels from big endian
platforms.
Libparanoia (Ported by Jörg Schilling, originated by Monty xiphmont@mit.edu):
Libedc (Optimized by Jörg Schilling, originated by Heiko Eißfeldt heiko@hexco.de):
Libscg:
Rscsi:
Cdrecord:
- Better documentation and EXAMPLE for -setdropts driveropts=
in the man page.
- print a help pessage to direct the user to use -raw96r in case
the drive does not accept the cue sheet with -dao.
Cdda2wav (By Heiko Eißfeldt heiko@hexco.de):
- Now using the major() macro for some Linux duties.
WARNING to creators of Linux distributions:
It has _always_ been wrong to compile software only once for different
kernel versions (e.g. for compile Linux-2.4 and later install a
2.2 kernel on the so created system).
Now that Linux-2.6 introduces incompatible changes to kernel/user
interfaces, the resulting binaries will not work correctly anymore.
Readcd:
Scgcheck:
Mkisofs (By Jörg Schilling and James Pearson j.pearson@ge.ucl.ac.uk):
- Added a NOTE regarding the SILO boot program for Linux sparc to the
man page.
- Added support for Solaris x86 boot CDs.
This includes the following new options:
- -sunx86-boot to create a fdisk & SVr4 partition table
- -sunx86-label to set the "disk label" name for the
SVr4 partition table.
- New file README.sunx86boot
TODO:
- read Joliet filenames with multi-session if no TRANS.TBL
or RR is present. I am looking for a volouteer for this task!
Note that this can never be 100% correct as there is no relation
between the names on the master (UNIX) filesystem, the ISO-9660
names and the Joliet names. Only the Rock Ridge names are
untranslated with respect to the original files on the
master (UNIX) filesystem.
- add libecc/edc for CDI and similar.
CYGWIN NT-4.0 NOTES:
To compile on Cygwin32, get Cygwin and install it.
For more information read README.win32
The files are located on:
ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/alpha ...
NOTE: These tar archives are 100% POSIX compatible. GNU tar may get some
minor trouble. If you like a 100% POSIX compliant tar, get star from
ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/star/
WARNING: Do not use 'winzip' to extract the tar file!
Winzip cannot extract symbolic links correctly.
Jörg
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