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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