Review still needed for dd_rescue/ddrescue/dd_rhelp
Andreas Thienemann
andreas at bawue.net
Sat Jul 9 13:00:52 UTC 2005
Hello,
On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, Andreas Thienemann wrote:
there is still a review (and/or approval) needed for the
ddrescue/dd_rescue/dd_rhelp combo.
> Just a short recap of the current situation:
> There exist two fault tollerant dd solutions. One is named dd_rescue, the
> other is named ddrescue. Both have their pros and cons. dd_rescue together
> with dd_rhelp (a bash helper script) looks a bit more advanced then the
> GNU ddrescue, but this is my personal opinion.
>
> Problem was that there is currently a ddrescue package in the
> fedora-extras tree, which does package dd_rescue. This is a bit confusing,
> as there are people who'd like ddrescue as well.
>
> My suggestion to solve this mess is to include three packages, ddrescue,
> dd_rescue and dd_rhelp with correct epoch and conflict tags to fix the
> naming mess.
>
> Could someone please review these packages?
>
> http://home.bawue.de/~ixs/dd_rescue/
> http://home.bawue.de/~ixs/dd_rhelp/
> http://home.bawue.de/~ixs/ddrescue/
thanks,
andreas
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