Hallo all,
I saw that ddrescue addon was a version from 2010 so I thought it was about time to be updated. However since 2013 gnu has only been using lzip for the tarballs and stopped providing gzip versions.
IPFire does not have lzip available at the moment.
The options seem to me to be:-
- remove ddrescue from the addon list
- leave ddrescue at the 2010 version - v1.12
- update ddrescue to the last .gz tarball version in 2012 - v1.16
- build lzip into the IPFire build system and update to latest ddrescue version from March 2020 - v1.25
should it go into the toolchain where the other compression packages seem to be (how to do that?)
should it go into the build part of IPFire
Looking through the changelog from v1.13 to 1.25 there are a lot of new options added but also some changes to the code itself that look to be fixing problems. I can't easily see how important these are. No changes have been marked as critical bug fixes or even marked as a bug fix.
My view would be to update to the latest version or remove ddrescue from the addons, as 11 years old seems a long time in computing terms.
I am open to taking any guidance on the best approach for this.
Regards,
Adolf.