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Re: RFS: hfsprogs - mkfs and fsck for HFS and HFS+ file systems



On Jul 18 2007, "Adam Cécile (Le_Vert)" wrote:
> Adam Cécile (Le_Vert) a écrit :
>> Did you checked my package ?
>>
>> There are several things that looks supicious:
>> * The patch that fix fsck -a switch has gone
>> * No more hack to build with -m32 on amd64 (won't probably work)
> * No line to tell users theses tools comes from MacOS and have been written 
> by Apple in the long description.

Sorry here. I think that I don't understand what you're saying, because
I put the name "Apple" at least 4 times in the long description.

>> Paul Wise a écrit :
>>> What is the relationship between hfsprogs and the existing hfsplus and
>>> hfsutils packages? Perhaps all three could be consolidated into one
>>> package (upstream if possible)?
> hfsutils: No HFS+ support.
> hfsplus: Strange binaries that seems really useless, unless you you don't 
> want to use hfsplus kernel support.
>
> Tools from Apple include a working mkfs.hfsplus and fsck.hfsplus.

Agreed on all 3 points.


Regards, Rogério Brito.

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