Steve Holmes wrote:

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I don't know much about the licenses differences and all that crap but I experienced a problem with cdrecord several years ago where it would not work with my CD burner. I kept getting wiere I/O errors or some such. When I asked around,some people told me about wodim and when I went out and installed wodim, I've been able to burn CDs and DVDs flawlessly ever since. My time with wodim has transpired over Slackware, Debian, and now Arch. I don't know today if cdrecord would still cause me those errors or not but for me, the drkit has been doing me just fine.

As you do not give any facts, this is obviously nonsense. I know of not a single case where cdrecord fails but wodim succeeds. Wodim is nothing than an onl version of cdrecord with bugs added by it't creators that never have been in the original. If you would give evidence, it would be easy to prove that your alleged problem is not related to cdrecord. Jörg -- EMail:joerg@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin js@cs.tu-berlin.de (uni) joerg.schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily

@Joerg Schilling This is not another attack against you so please to not try and make yourself appear as some kinda of victim here as well. I know it's none of my business replying here, but I feel I need to say something. It's not related to the original discussion, but your attitude. Now, I'll say it up front, I'm not a psychological professional, shrink or anyone qualified to discuss this, but I will put my foot in my mouth anyway. Over this entire thread, you have come off as very aggressive, maybe this has something to do with the language, maybe it's just your personality. You have, dare I say attacked others, presented others in a somewhat degraded light. You do all these things, as far as I can tell, without sufficient reason(e.g calling others hostile when that had nothing to do with the discussion, also see your comments about Arch as well...). Throughout, you have presented yourself as some sort of victim. This coupled with your defensive behaviour is not very good. It leads to you appearing as some kind of troll, or someone whose sole intent is to destroy cdrkit as opposed to getting cdrtools back into Arch. On 30/01/10 07:35, Joerg Schilling wrote:

Steve Holmes wrote:

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I don't know much about the licenses differences and all that crap but I experienced a problem with cdrecord several years ago where it would not work with my CD burner. I kept getting wiere I/O errors or some such. When I asked around,some people told me about wodim and when I went out and installed wodim, I've been able to burn CDs and DVDs flawlessly ever since. My time with wodim has transpired over Slackware, Debian, and now Arch. I don't know today if cdrecord would still cause me those errors or not but for me, the drkit has been doing me just fine.

As you do not give any facts, this is obviously nonsense.

No, that doesn't make it nonsense and along with your other favourite words (such as hostile, attacked, victim) your use of it is very appears needlessly aggressive. This kind of attitude leads to bad/buggy software.

I know of not a single case where cdrecord fails but wodim succeeds. Obviously you do not because you haven't tested every possible combination of software and hardware here. I can give you a real-life example, NetworkManager, it works great until I attemp to play games, I get a very noticeable lag every so often than ruins online games for me. This issue does not exist, now nor has it ever existed with any other networking tool(netcfg, wicd) some time ago I read about it being blamed on buggy drivers, yet it exists only because of the way NetworkManager does a periodic background scan. You are being introduced to a potential new case here, don't blindly dismiss it.

Wodim is nothing than an onl version of cdrecord with bugs added by it't creators that never have been in the original.

At this moment in time, I cannot upgrade xorg-xinit from the old 1.1.1-1 to 1.2.0-1 because some scripts breaks and I haven't bothered to look into it. By your logic, this is obviusly nonsense because the newer, less buggy xorg-xinit has no such regressions.

If you would give evidence, it would be easy to prove that your alleged problem is not related to cdrecord.

Jörg

Again, no-one likes a victim. Try not to be so defensive. Look at Pidgin's xfire/gfire plugin, it suffers from bugs and possible security issues because the developers exhibited similar defensive behavior towards me, today I upgrade and fix those bugs as I like without even bothering to report them. Attitude like this drives people away, people with potentially valuable input.

On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 06:48, Joerg Schilling wrote:

In Germany, it is possible to have a technically based discussion without attacking the other people. If you try to have the same using the English language, people often claim that they have been personally attacked and personally attack other people although they did reply on a text that clearly does not contain any personal attack. I have been reading this mailing list for several years, and can think of maybe one or two discussions that got like this. The vast majority of them are quite civil technical discussions. Don't blame the language for your lack of competence. If you feel that English can't convey your ideas, that's not the fault of the language but a lack of fluency on your part. Stop trying to misdirect the discussion.

Am Sat, 30 Jan 2010 12:48:33 +0100 schrieb Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de (Joerg Schilling):

Let me give some basic explanations:

In German we have the word "Streitkultur", there is no equlvalent in English - guess why...

And the word "Streitkultur" is the biggest misnomer ("Unwort") ever. That's typically German. Look e.g. at German forums and English forums. English forums are usually much friendlier and much more competent. In German forums the most given answer without giving the answer to the asked question is: "Use the search function." And if someone asks a question he first has to apologize with a bad conscience that he hasn't found anything with the search function and that one may excuse it if his question was already posted. In English forums you usually get the answer you have asked for. The search function is mentioned only in exceptional cases and in a sub-clause. And if it's really your intention to argue (streiten) then I don't know if this is the right attitude. Discussing is much better and effective than arguing. I mean I assume that you have a big technical knowledge. Otherwise you wouldn't be able to write such a program and build such an Open Solaris LiveCD. But I also can understand that some people feel being attacked by you. On the other hand I can understand that you like to see cdrtools in the repo instead of cdrkit since it is your and the original software. And I'd also vote for switching from cdrkit to cdrtools in the repos even if I generally don't mind with which program I burn my CDs as long as the CDs are burned correctly.

In Germany, it is possible to have a technically based discussion without attacking the other people. If you try to have the same using the English language, people often claim that they have been personally attacked and personally attack other people although they did reply on a text that clearly does not contain any personal attack.

No, it's usually exactly vice versa. If people claim that they have been personally attacked they either have been personally attacked or it's due to the language knowledge of the foreign speaker.

I am not personally atacking people and I hope that some people here learn Streitkultur.

I hope not. And I'm also German, but I hate the word "Streitkultur". Greetings, Heiko

On Sat, 2010-01-30 at 14:56 +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote:

Heiko Baums wrote:

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I mean I assume that you have a big technical knowledge. Otherwise you wouldn't be able to write such a program and build such an Open Solaris LiveCD. But I also can understand that some people feel being attacked by you. On the other hand I can understand that you like to see cdrtools in the repo instead of cdrkit since it is your and the original software. And I'd also vote for switching from cdrkit to cdrtools in the repos even if I generally don't mind with which program I burn my CDs as long as the CDs are burned correctly.

It seems that you also use this discussion to attack me.

It would help a lot of you first try to understand what happened. A person did make a claim about an alleged problem without giving any proof for his claims. I asked him kindly to give enough information so in case there really was a problem, I am able to explain where it is located.

Jörg

Joerg, I think most of us do see your points, but its difficult to take them seriously with the language you're using. It may merely be a translation issue, but the words you use, while perhaps not being an issue in German, are considered generally offensive and trollish in English. Unfortunately a bad messenger tends to taint the message.

Am Sat, 30 Jan 2010 14:56:13 +0100 schrieb Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de (Joerg Schilling):

It seems that you also use this discussion to attack me.

Where did I attack you? If you feel so easy being attacked, then you should indeed think about yourself. Greetings, Heiko

On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 09:58:19AM -0500, Baho Utot wrote:

This is what I have done because of _your_ direct actions on this list and other actions by you on some news groups I read. ...

Your post makes you look like a juvenile struggling with the first hormones.

I don't care if cdrtools is better than the very best or that cdrkit is worst than the worst. It doesn't matter.

If your choice of software is such an emotional thing then I must conclude that you can't be trusted to manage any system except your own, and that whatever you do or write on these matters is completely irrelevant. Ciao, -- FA O tu, che porte, correndo si ? E guerra e morte !

Joerg Schilling wrote:

Baho Utot wrote:

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I have preformed some tests and guess what cdrkit works! Imagine that. It burnt the iso's for Slackware distribution, and using md5sum to sum both a Slackware distribution disk burned by both cdrkit and cdrtools and they are the same, how did that happen?

There is a 99,99999999999999999999999999999999999% chance that you did never used cdrtools.

Jörg

Please show me the evidence to support your position. Please what evidence do you have that I have never used cdrtools? As a user of Linux since 1995 your assertions are ridicules. Just being a user from 1995 proves your claim to be false. Yes that is before cdrkit was ever released. I have been a early beta tester for Turbolinux, would you like a copy of my beta/prerelease TurboLinux CDs from that period? I also have RedHat Linux official versions from 5.0 to 9.0 and non official release 4.2 which I ran oracle on, the oracle db required Red Hat 4.2 at that time, again you look it up. Please do this, download Slackware 12 or 13 _LOOK_ at what it being distributed. You _WILL_ find that it is cdrtools. One _HAS_ to remove it by choice as I did and build and install cdrkit. Would you like my build script for cdrkit? Here is the script I used to test cdrtools and cdrkit #!/bin/sh # $Id: burnt_iso_md5_check.sh,v 1.1 2008/03/22 16:51:22 root Exp root $ # Written 2008 by Eric Hameleers # # This command will check the md5sum of a cd (ignoring possible padding at # the end by only checking the same amount of bytes at the iso image) and # also check the md5sum of the ISO image. # Idea found at: # http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?p=3077366#post3077366 # and expanded a bit. # if [ $1 ]; then isoFile=$1 else echo "Usage: $0 <iso-image> <cd-drive>" echo "E.g. $0 /tmp/slackware-12.0.iso /dev/dvd" exit 1 fi if [ $2 ]; then cdDrive=$2 else echo "Usage: $0 <iso-image> <cd-drive>" echo "E.g. $0 /tmp/slackware-12.0.iso /dev/dvd" exit 1 fi if [ ! -b $cdDrive ]; then echo "ERROR. '$cdDrive' is not a block device." exit 1 fi if [ ! -r $isoFile ]; then echo "ERROR. ISO image '$isoFile' does not exist." exit 1 else echo "** Verifying md5sums between $isoFile <-> $cdDrive" dd if=$cdDrive | head -c $(stat --format=%s $isoFile) | md5sum \ && md5sum $isoFile fi You have confirmed my position..... You just want to argue your point. You can continue to claim the above, But you now have _ZERO_ credibility with me.

Gaurish Sharma wrote:

Hi, On the Wiki, Add a small note about cdrtools. proposing it as alternate over cdkit.so let the user decide: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/CD_Burning_Tips

This is of course better than doing nothing. Please note however that this discussion did not start because I like to include cdrtools into Arch linux but because Arch Linux users are interested to have cdrtools in arch linux by default instead of cdrkit. Jörg -- EMail:joerg@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin js@cs.tu-berlin.de (uni) joerg.schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily

Baho Utot wrote:

Joerg Schilling wrote:

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Baho Utot wrote:

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I have preformed some tests and guess what cdrkit works! Imagine that. It burnt the iso's for Slackware distribution, and using md5sum to sum both a Slackware distribution disk burned by both cdrkit and cdrtools and they are the same, how did that happen?

There is a 99,99999999999999999999999999999999999% chance that you did never used cdrtools.

Jörg

Please show me the evidence to support your position.

mkisofs writes a record with it's current version number, so if you use cdrtools, the content _definitely_ differs. It is unfortunately people like you who do never prove any of their claims and who claim things with an extremely low probability that create the impression of groundless attacks and zero credibility. You may try to trick out other people, here you will not have success. As people with some basic skills know, just writing an _image_ with cdrecord and wodim and then then comparing results does not prove the absense of problems in wodim or cdrkit. Jörg -- EMail:joerg@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin js@cs.tu-berlin.de (uni) joerg.schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily

"Armando M. Baratti" wrote:

Strange, I have had the opposite experience. Trying to burn some CDs with cdrkit (on CentOS) give some problem with not being able to generate Joliet system and I have had trouble with utf-8 too.

First I thought I was making some stupid mistake, but changing to cdrtools (from sourceforge repository) fixed that.

Well, it was in another distro, but by what I've read in this thread it seems to make sense now.

There is nothing strange and this does not depend on the distro you are using. The fork does not handle UTF-8 correctly. BTW: the whole dispute with Debian started with an attempt from a Debian paketizer to make me integrate a non-working UTF-8 patch into mkisofs in May 2004. This patch was full of bugs and even if it did have no bugs, it would only handle 50% of the cases that need support for UTF-8. This broken patch is still in the fork, but in Summer 2006 I did implement working and complete UTF-8 support for mkisofs. There is however no cdrtools at Sourceforge, cdrtools is at Berlios ;-) Jörg -- EMail:joerg@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin js@cs.tu-berlin.de (uni) joerg.schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily

On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 08:35:38AM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote:

Steve Holmes wrote:

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I don't know much about the licenses differences and all that crap but I experienced a problem with cdrecord several years ago where it would not work with my CD burner. I kept getting wiere I/O errors or some such. When I asked around,some people told me about wodim and when I went out and installed wodim, I've been able to burn CDs and DVDs flawlessly ever since. My time with wodim has transpired over Slackware, Debian, and now Arch. I don't know today if cdrecord would still cause me those errors or not but for me, the drkit has been doing me just fine.

As you do not give any facts, this is obviously nonsense.

I know of not a single case where cdrecord fails but wodim succeeds. Wodim is nothing than an onl version of cdrecord with bugs added by it't creators that never have been in the original.

If you would give evidence, it would be easy to prove that your alleged problem is not related to cdrecord.

Jörg

-- EMail:joerg@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin js@cs.tu-berlin.de (uni) joerg.schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily

Now you know about several of those cases, for I wasn't able to burn my CD on a modern device (Lenovo SL500's DVD device) with cdrtools (alpha67, IIRC), but I was able to do it with cdrkit without an issue.

On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 12:39:07PM +0100, Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote:

virus_found wrote:

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Now you know about several of those cases, for I wasn't able to burn my CD on a modern device (Lenovo SL500's DVD device) with cdrtools (alpha67, IIRC), but I was able to do it with cdrkit without an issue.

There is a 99.999999999% chance that you are not telling the truth.

If you really had a problem, you could describe it and send a log. People who have problems have a name and send bug reports.

Jörg

-- EMail:joerg@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin js@cs.tu-berlin.de (uni) joerg.schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily

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