cvs commit: ports/sysutils/cdrtools Makefile pkg-descr pkg-descr.mkisofs pkg-plist pkg-plist.mkisofspatch-cdda2wav::interface.c

[Marius Strobl]

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.