Yeah something else installed it, I guess cdrecord, which I believe is horribly out of date but I skipped part of the manual about burning an image with growisofs, I guess the name distracted. My problems are gone, but it remains a fact the more familiar cdrwtools is horridly out of date and should just be updated with the DVD support.
On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 3:51 AM, Jan Stary <h...@stare.cz> wrote: > First of all, you should have taken this to ports@, not to misc@. > > On Nov 14 16:13:34, John Tate wrote: >> Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-R/DVD-RW. >> >> cdrecord: This version of cdrecord does not include DVD-R/DVD-RW support >> code. >> cdrecord: If you need DVD-R/DVD-RW support, ask the Author for >> cdrecord-ProDVD. >> cdrecord: Free test versions and free keys for personal use are at >> ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/ProDVD/ >> >> Apparently this support code has been in cdrtools since 2009, > > May 15th 2006, to be precise. > ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/ProDVD/README > >> the site >> it tells me to go to tells me I don't need it. It's like bureaucracy, >> lol. > > lol indeed. > >> I could build their cdrtools, but the port must be ancient or something. > > The version in ports is as recent as someone cared. > Currently, sysutils/cdrtools has no MAINTAINER. > You are very welcome to maintain an up-to-date port of cdrtools. > (Please read all of the relevant documentation before attempting this.) > My guess is it will never happen though. > >> Perhaps I could become a packager. > > Absolutely. > > On Nov 14 22:07:06, John Tate wrote: >> I clearly should become a packager. > > That is your future. > > In fact, I would be willing to buy the filming rights > to the heroic breakthrough that is hidden behind these four lines: > > On Nov 14 16:13:34, John Tate wrote: >> Perhaps I could become a packager. > > On Nov 14 22:07:06, John Tate wrote: >> I clearly should become a packager. > > "FIND OUT ... WHAT HAPPENED .... IN THOSE SIX HOURS ... COMMING SOON!" > > On Nov 15 02:04:16, John Tate wrote: >> Make install does nothing in /usr/ports/sysutils/dvd+rw-tools/, >> and the ports is the tarball from >> ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.0/ports.tar.gz - it does not error >> there is simply no output. It does compile. I honestly think something >> has been missed. > > It builds and installs just fine. > >> As for my confused posts, well, it happens I'm not >> perfect, but it has little baring on anything. > > http://johntate.org/fact/johntate is almost perfect though, in a sense. > > -- www.johntate.org
