cant burn a cd iso

[Rick C. Petty]

On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 02:32:53PM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Andriy Gapon <avg at icyb.net.ua> wrote:
> 
> > I am confused - in none of your postings I found what is the latest version of
> > cdrtools and where it can obtained.
> > Could you please help us with this?
> >
> > I looked here:
> > http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/cdrecord.html
> 
> If you lookd at the web site....

He did look at the website.

> > followed "Old/Stable" link:
> > ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/
> > and it seems that version 2.01 from 2004 is still the greatest one (in the
> > version-comparison sense).
> 
> ....you should know that the latest version is 2.01.01a60

The port available in sysutils/cdrtools-devel is 2.01.01a59, so what's the
big deal?

> What is the reason for following the "Old/Stable" link?

Probably he was following the "stable" part.  This implies that the newer
versions are not stable, which is why there's a cdrtools-devel port.

> 2.01 is completely outdated and should be avoided because of many bugs (e.g. in 
> mkisofs).

It's not always the case that newer versions are more stable and have fewer
bugs.  In fact, cdrtools in particular has been that way in the past, where
mkisofs(1) created ISOs which were buggy (in that they were not even
mountable, or sometimes were mountable but some of the file pointers went
past the end of the ISO).  In those times, I've had to drop back a version
or two to get a decent ISO.  Maybe this is no longer the case since 2.01.
Maybe you should provide a short summary of the known issues in 2.01 that
are fixed in 2.01.01a60 and some assurances that the latter produces broken
images left often than the former.

Also it would probably help if you were more civil about it.  Andriy asked
a reasonable question and made a reasonable assumption about the term
"stable".

-- Rick C. Petty