Comment 80 for bug 213215

Hello,

I have exactly the same problems, since its first inception cdrkit/wodim never worked for me, especially with dvds. Time has passed and now with mmc drives everywhere the compatibility has improved a bit but nevertheless most of the problems I had are still there.

So here are the packages I use in my Fedora / RHEL installations. The spec file is inside the specs directory.

http://www.kosgroup.com/simosimo/
http://www.kosgroup.com/simosimo/specs/
http://www.kosgroup.com/simosimo/RPM-GPG-KEY-slaanesh

A few things about the packages:

1- The Epoch goes to 10 to be newer than cdrkit "obsoletes" statements and to be newer than the old epoch 9 of cdrtools that's declared in cdrkit spec file; this avoids yum loops.
2- It provides "genisoimage", "icedax" and "wodim" for the package that require them (such as Anaconda and others). No symlinks to binaries are defined.
3- It does not use the alternative system cdrkit uses, in this case I found it useless.
4- There are no patches to modify behaviour or code, binary runs as root (btw, I personally don't use it as suid and never had a single problem).
5- There's a default configuration in the /etc/default/cdrecord file that points to /dev/cdrom as default, this is for obvious compatibility reasons with Fedora defaults. My package goes into the updates of a lot of computers and works as cdrkit replacement without configuration.
6- There's a conversion of utf8 in C and man files prior to building to correctly show "ö" instead of a "?".
7- If you check the spec with rpmlint there are a few errors but you can check inside the spec files why those "errors" are there.
8- It has been built with mock on both platforms, I've cut the changelog.

I'll be happy to mantain a yum repository for the latest Fedora and RHEL (x86_64 and i386) if someone gives me some little space (ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/ maybe?)

Regards,
--Simone