cvs commit: ports/sysutils/cdrtools Makefile pkg-descr
pkg-descr.mkisofs pkg-plist
pkg-plist.mkisofspatch-cdda2wav::interface.c
Marius Strobl
marius at alchemy.franken.de
Wed Jun 2 12:24:17 PDT 2004
On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 08:04:10PM +0200, Stijn Hoop wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 10:16:04AM -0700, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> > netchild 2004/06/02 10:16:04 PDT
> >
> > FreeBSD ports repository
> >
> > Modified files:
> > sysutils/cdrtools Makefile pkg-descr pkg-plist
> > sysutils/cdrtools/files patch-README.rscsi
> > patch-cdda2wav::interface.c
> > Removed files:
> > sysutils/cdrtools pkg-descr.mkisofs pkg-plist.mkisofs
> > Log:
>
> > - Stop the artificial separation of mkisofs from cdrtools and merge
> > sysutils/mkisofs into sysutils/cdrtools which brings us in line
> > with other distributions. The separation of mkisofs caused quite
> > some confusion among users as well as committers about why its
> > PORTVERSION was different from the cdrtools port, how to install
> > it, etc.
>
> The reason this got split was that you don't need cdrtools to burn CD's
> (see burncd(8)), but you do need a tool to make an ISO fs.
>
Well, this is only true for ATAPI burners on ata(4).
Do you remember a discussion regarding the split? I didn't find a
thread about it and doubt that burncd(8) was the real reason. The
log of the commit that turned sysutils/mkisofs into a slave-port
also doesn't tell about why it was done that way.
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