[Debburn-devel] Re: scdbackup + wodim

[George Danchev]

On Thursday 07 September 2006 19:52, scdbackup at gmx.net wrote:
> Hi,

Hello Thomas, Joerg,


Joerg, 
	Thomas (is an upstream any debian maintainer dreams about ;-). He is the 
author of scdbackup [1] (not in Debian) and cdrskin [2] (in Debian):

[1] http://scdbackup.sourceforge.net/
[2] http://scdbackup.sourceforge.net/cdrskin_eng.html

Thomas raised some questions about wodim and its early adoption by his 
scdbackup, which will be better answered by Joerg (that is Joerg Jaspert 
wodim/cdrkit project leader, not Joerg Schilling ;-)

Currently I use cdrskin only and I don't follow wodim/cdrkit development yet. 
Lack of time sorry ;-)

> with all the hats on my head i forgot that scdbackup-Thomas has to deal
> with the new wodim burner program.
> Its public appearence ist still a bit diffuse.
>
> If this all is too early, then i will be happy to hear
> because i do not have to work on it yet. :))
>
> Currently i wrote this text into the README of the development version:

Sounds great.

> "
>                                    wodim
>
> wodim is a new cdrecord fork which obviously will not be installed under
> the name "cdrecord". It's daily use should be no problem by
>   export SCDBACKUP_CDRECORD="wodim -v"
>   export SCDBACKUP_SCSI_ADR=...wodim.address.string...
>
> For configuration of scdbackup, there is still some work to do.
> If wodim is really fully compatible to cdrecord then it should be possible
> to do configuration with a original-cdrecord or with a temporary link of
> "cdrecord" to the wodim command, if there is no "cdrecord" present, yet.

AFACT, wodim will be probably command-line option compatible with cdrecord, 
but no further compatibility will be kept anymore ? That is for Joerg to 
answer better ;-)

> See also appendix CONFIGURATION. Please report your experiences with wodim.
> "
>
> Do you know what wodim is supposed to use as burner addresses ?
> 0,0,0 ? /dev/hdc ? What on ide-scsi ? Will it support ide-scsi ?
> What will be the outcome of  wodim -scanbus  ?
> Is there a migration guideline for cdrecord frontends ? Examples ?

for Joerg ;-), and see doc in the source tree (see below)

> Is there already a wodim release ? (I must say the home page is sparse.
> http://packages.debian.org/unstable/otherosfs/wodim by google)

Ah, that is the package webpage. The project webpage is here:
http://alioth.debian.org/projects/debburn/

> I don't use a Debian system. Will that be a problem ?

No (see below)

> I have a 32 bit AMD ... not listed in "Architecture"
> Not even a 32 bit Intel. Obviously the shop is not open
> yet.

it is x86-compatible architecture, so no problems.

> Can you get me a runnable binary for testing ?
> Just plain /usr/bin/wodim or so.

you can have the package source under debian like that:
apt-get source wodim

> SuSE 9.0 kernel and libc:
> Linux 2.4.21-215-athlon i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
> GNU C Library stable release version 2.3.2 (20030827), by Roland McGrath et
> al. Configured for i586-suse-linux.
> Compiled by GNU CC version 3.3.1 (SuSE Linux).

You can have the sources and compile them as well. 
Some testing/reporting will be appreciated.

svn co svn://svn.debian.org/debburn/nonameyet

or better get the latest trunk only:
svn co svn://svn.debian.org/debburn/nonameyet/trunk

See also:
http://alioth.debian.org/projects/debburn/
http://debburn.alioth.debian.org/


P.S. Blah, All our burns belong to germans ;-)

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