ken gebser@mousecar.com wrote:
If you are using this bad fork that is from September 2004 - 9 years ago, you suffer from many problems, like incomplete documentation and many bugs that cannot be found in the original software.
cdrecord and readcd are both part of this package:
$ rpm -qi cdrecord Name : cdrecord Relocations: (not relocatable) Version : 2.01 Vendor: CentOS Release : 10.7.el5 Build Date: Thu 26 Feb 2009 06:30:50 PM EST Install Date: Mon 05 Sep 2011 03:03:56 PM EDT Build Host: chamkaur.karan.org Group : Applications/Archiving Source RPM: cdrtools-2.01-10.7.el5.src.rpm Size : 1383954 License: GPL Signature : DSA/SHA1, Sun 08 Mar 2009 09:45:19 PM EDT, Key ID a8a447dce8562897 Packager : Karanbir Singh kbsingh@karan.org URL : http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/cdrecord.html Summary : A command line CD/DVD recording program. Description : ....
The "Description" states nothing about it being from a bad fork from 2004. :) So how would anyone know?
You will not get useful version information from calling "rpm".
There is nothing like: cdrtools-2.01-10.7.el5
If you like to know what you are using, I recommend to call:
cdrecord -version cdda2wav -version readcd -version mkisofs -version
If you are using original software, you will see someting like:
Cdrecord-ProDVD-ProBD-Clone 3.01a16 (i386-pc-solaris2.11) Copyright (C) 1995-2013 Joerg Schilling
If one of the commends does not print a message like this, you should be careful.
BTW: cdrtools-2.01 is from September 2004.
Programs like grip and cdparanoia don't care about the usability of the extracted files for later burning tasks and they are not able to extract so called "un-CDs".
cdda2wav knows about the writing process, feteches cddb data and includes a bug-fixed libparanoia.
Recent man pages also contain several related examples. Did you read a recent manpage and follow the EXAMPLE section?
I don't know what is meant here by "recent". Which is the earliest version which contains the functionality required?
The features in question are in since a longer time, but if you are on a Linux distro that does not deliver up-to-date software, you should expect that there are bugs in your version that never have been in the original software.
Since 2004, the man pages have been completely rewritten for better readability, the features have been massively enhanced (they did more than double since September 2004) and many bugs have been fixed. In January 2010, cdda2wav e.g. added support for hidden tracks. Mkisofs added support for libfind in 2006 and cdrecord added support for BluRay in 2007.
Would you like to run a Linux kernel from 2004 today?
Jörg