Re: port of cdrtools

[Jolan Luff <jolan@encryptedemail.net>]

> I submitted the port.  I never heard that it was broken or needed fixing.
> A couple people said it worked fine for them, and I have been using it
> for a while (but not now, since I'm testing the "damn" packages).  I was
> under the impression that no one was interested.
i'm definitely interested.

> Well, I have issues with Xcdroast.  Why does it access the CD device
> EVERYTIME I click on a button?  What's the point of accessing the
> CD device to make an ISO on the hard drive?
it doesn't... at least not for me under linux. the only time it accesses
the cd device for me is when i actually go to use the iso to
burn a cd to disc. this is to check to see that the media is indeed
there.

> Anyway, IIRC, Xcdroast doesn't automatically detect CD burners and one is
> limited to a single CD device with OpenBSD.  I don't think Xcdroast's
> audio works properly on OpenBSD either.
xcdroast does cdrecord -scanbus to detect cd-roms. unfortunately, this
doesn't work on openbsd (or other bsd's if i recall correctly). what do
you mean by audio? when it plays a sound to indicate that an operation
is complete? i never had audio working under openbsd until now, so maybe
i can verify that and hopefully fix it.

> If you want a GUI CD burner, cdrchive is in the ports tree.
i don't want just any gui cd burner :)


thanks for the response about cdrtools.

-jolan