Bug#229769: ITP: hfsprogs -- mkfs and fsck for HFS and HFS+ file systems
Package: wnpp
Version: N/A; reported 2004-01-26
Severity: wishlist
* Package name : hfsprogs
Version : dunno
Upstream Author : Apple Computer Inc.
* URL : http://developer.apple.com/darwin/
* License : APSL
Description : mkfs and fsck for HFS and HFS+ file systems
The HFS+ file system used by Apple Computer for their Mac OS is now
supported by the Linux kernel. I've had ample experience with the
mkfs and fsck utilities for this file system in Linux, both from
personal use and from reports of the users of my Debian package
hfsplus. Right now, mkfs and fsck from this package are best
described as nonexistent and totally unsuable, respectively. The
upstream author has declared he is not going to develop these tools
any further. So there goes another nice piece of free software.
Of course, Apple provides mkfs and fsck for HFS+ with the Unix core of
their operating system, Darwin. Experimental ports to Linux and
FreeBSD exist, so I will start with the original Darwin source and
these ports. The resulting package will have to go into non-free due
to Apple's license, but better non-free than none.
-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux pygar 2.4.23-acheron #1 SMP Do Jan 8 13:34:01 CET 2004 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
Reply to: