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| Name: mtools-doc | Distribution: SUSE Linux 16 |
| Version: 4.0.45 | Vendor: SUSE LLC <https://www.suse.com/> |
| Release: 160000.2.2 | Build date: Mon Sep 30 11:13:35 2024 |
| Group: Documentation/Other | Build host: reproducible |
| Size: 341777 | Source RPM: mtools-4.0.45-160000.2.2.src.rpm |
| Packager: https://www.suse.com/ | |
| Url: https://www.gnu.org/software/mtools/ | |
| Summary: Documentation for mtools, a toolset for MS-DOS filesystem access | |
Mtools allows access to an MS-DOS file system on disk without mounting it. This subpackage contains the documentation for it.
GFDL-1.3-only AND GPL-3.0-or-later
* Mon Sep 30 2024 pgajdos@suse.com
- version update to 4.0.45
* Fixed iconv descriptor leak
* Fixed size of error message buffer
* Mon Jul 08 2024 pgajdos@suse.com
- version update to 4.0.44
* Added documentation for size parameters
* Fix parsing of fat_start (reserved sectors) in mformat.c so
as to allow more than 255
* Rewrite autorename in vfat.c such that it doesn't
(temporarily) overwrite byte after name string
* Switch statement fall-through fixes (size parsing, and bios disk in
mformat.c)
* Compilation warning fixes, mostly for CLANG
- deleted sources
- mtools-4.0.43.tar.bz2.sig (not needed)
- added sources
+ mtools-4.0.44.tar.bz2.sig
* Thu Feb 22 2024 pgajdos@suse.com
- Use %autosetup macro.
* Fri Mar 24 2023 andreas.stieger@gmx.de
- update to 4.0.43:
* Fix root directory test in mattrib
* -b BiosDisk flag for mformat to allow setting physdrive to
a user-specified value
* Clearer error message in mformat when trying to mformat a
disk whose total size is not known
* Make recursive copy more consistent
* Trailing slash now always implies target should be a directory
* Sat Oct 22 2022 andreas.stieger@gmx.de
- update to 4.0.42:
* Added postcmd attribute in drive description to allow to
execute "device release" code automatically at end of
command
* Code cleanup, signedness cleanup about directory entries
* Wed Sep 21 2022 andreas.stieger@gmx.de
- update to 4.0.41:
* Support FAT32 with less than 0xfff5 clusters
* Make FAT32 entries 0 and 1 match what what Windows 10 does
* Tue Jun 14 2022 pgajdos@suse.com
- fix build
- deleted patches
- mtools-prototypes.diff (not needed)
* Fri Jun 10 2022 andreas.stieger@gmx.de
- update to 4.0.40:
* Better compatibility with legacy platforms
* Fri Apr 15 2022 dmueller@suse.com
- update to 4.0.39:
* Rename strtoi to strosi (string to signed int). The strtoi
function on BSD does something else (returns an intmax, not
an int)
* Mon Mar 07 2022 maciek.borzecki@gmail.com
- update to 4.0.38:
* Make sure case byte is cleared when making the special
directory entries "." and ".."
* In mattrib man page, replace "attribute flags" with "attribute
bits"
* Sun Jan 09 2022 andreas.stieger@gmx.de
- update to 4.0.37:
* Removed mclasserase commands, which doesn't fit the coding
structure of the rest of mtools
* Add support to -i option to mcd
* Document -i in mtools.1
* Fix a missing commad error in floppyd_io.c
* Sat Nov 27 2021 dmueller@suse.com
- update to 4.0.36:
* Fix error status of recursive listing of empty root directory
* If recursive listing, also show matched files at level one
* Use "seekless" reads & write internally, where possible
* Text mode conversion refactoring
* Misc refactoring
- remove mtools-aliasing.diff (obsolete)
* Sat Aug 07 2021 andreas.stieger@gmx.de
- mtools 4.0.35:
* Fix cluster padding at end of file in batch mode
* Sat Jul 24 2021 andreas.stieger@gmx.de
- mtools 4.0.34:
* Fix mcopy -s issue
- includes changes from 4.0.33:
* Fix support for partitions
* Add support for image files on command line to mcat
- includes changes from 4.0.32:
* Simplify algorithm that choses filesystem parameters for
format, and align it more closely with what Win7 does
* Fix mformatting XDF when XDF not explicitly specified on
mformat command line
* easier way to enter sizes on mformat command line
(mformat -C -T 1440K)
* For small sizes, mformat assumes floppy geometries
(heads 1 or 2, tracks 40 or 80)
* Handle attempts to mformat too small filesystems more
gracefully
* Enable minfo to print out additional mformat command line
parameters, if the present filesystem uses non-default
values for these
* minfo no longer prints bigsect if smallsect is set
* for remap filter, error when trying to write non-zero data
to unmapped sectors
- drop mtools-autoconf.diff, no longer needed
- drop mtools-fat-bits.diff, drop candidate for some time
* Sun Jun 20 2021 andreas.stieger@gmx.de
- mtools 4.0.31:
* Fix polarity of format_xdf command-line parameter of mformat
* Improved error handling and error messages
* Remove duplicate writing of backup boot sector
* developer visible changes
- includes changes from 4.0.30:
* Fixed XDF floppy disk access
* Fixed faulty behavior at end of image in mcat
* Raise an error when trying to mcopy multiple source files
over a single destination file (rather than directory)
* fix handling of "hidden" sectors
* Modernize partition support
* developer visible changes
- includes changes from 4.0.29 and 4.0.28:
* Support remapping of data
* Re-open floppy devices read-write if geometry parameters need
to be changed
* relax consistency checks in mpartition (partitions created
by current fdisk would almost never pass these checks)
* Sun Apr 18 2021 andreas.stieger@gmx.de
- mtools 4.0.27:
* Fix type error in calls to iconv functions
* Sun Nov 29 2020 andreas.stieger@gmx.de
- mtools 4.0.26:
* Ignore image file locking errors if we are performing a read-
only access anyways
- remove obsolete texinfo packaging macros, update signing keyring
* Sun Oct 25 2020 andreas.stieger@gmx.de
- mtools 4.0.25:
* Preserve non-updated contents of info sector, just in case
it contains program code
* When parsing config file, always use "C" locale for
case-insensitive comparisons
* Sat Mar 28 2020 andreas.stieger@gmx.de
- mtools 4.0.24:
* Added AC_SYS_LARGEFILE for some ARM processors
* Wed Mar 18 2020 pgajdos@suse.com
- require glibc-locale-base instead o glibc-locale [bsc#1165837]
[bsc#957007]
* Fri Dec 28 2018 pgajdos@suse.com
- mtools 4.0.23:
* Address lots of compiler warnings (assignments between different types)
* Network speedup fixes for floppyd (TCP_CORK)
* Typo fixes
* Explicitly pass available target buffer size for character
set conversions
- refreshed:
% mtools-prototypes.diff
* Tue Dec 11 2018 jengelh@inai.de
- Use noun phrase in summary.
- Fix excessively large keyring.
* Fri Dec 07 2018 malte.kraus@suse.com
- mtools 4.0.22:
* Fixed -f flag for mformat (size is KBytes, rather than sectors)
* Fixed toupper/tolower usage (unsigned char rather than plain
signed)
- mtools 4.0.21:
* Addressed compiler warnings
* Fixed length handling in character set conversion (Unicode file
names)
* Fixed matching of character range, when containing Unicode
characters (mdir "c:test[α-ω].exe")
* Fixed initialization of my_scsi_cmd constructor
* Wed Nov 14 2018 mloviska@suse.com
- Update to 4.0.20:
* initialize directory entries to 0
* bad message "Too few sectors" replaced with "Too many sectors"
* apostrophe in mlabel no longer causes generation of long entry
* option to fake system date for file creation using the
SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH environment variables
* can now be compiled with "clang" compiler
* fallback function for strndup, for those platforms that don't have it
* fixed a number of -Wextra warnings
* new compressed archive formats for uz/lz
* allow to specify number of reserved sectors for FAT32.
* file/device locking with timeout (rather than immediate failure)
* fixed support for BPB-less legacy formats.
* removed check that disk must be an integer number of tracks.
* removed .eh/.oh macros from manual pages
* Wed Oct 31 2018 pgajdos@suse.com
- patches unversioned; makes update and reviews easier
* mtools-4.0.18-fat-bits.diff -> mtools-fat-bits.diff
* mtools-4.0.18-conf.diff -> mtools-conf.diff
* mtools-4.0.18-aliasing.diff -> mtools-aliasing.diff
* mtools-4.0.18-prototypes.diff -> mtools-prototypes.diff
* mtools-4.0.18-autoconf.diff -> mtools-autoconf.diff
* Sat Oct 27 2018 sean@suspend.net
- Update to 4.0.19:
* Fix for short file names starting with character 0xE5
* mpartition: Partition types closer to what Microsoft uses
* mformat: figure out LBA geometry as last resort if geometry is unspecified
* mformat: use same default cluster size as Microsoft for FAT32
* additional sanity checks
* document how clutser size is picked in mformat.c man page
* document how partition types are picked in mpartition.c man page
* Mon Jul 16 2018 pgajdos@suse.com
- do not build in parallel as it fails
* Fri Apr 27 2018 stefan.bruens@rwth-aachen.de
- Disable floppyd support. Floppyd is a daemon allowing remote X
clients to access floppies attached to e.g. thin clients. As it
uses X authentication, it pulls in X libraries.
* Tue Feb 13 2018 crrodriguez@opensuse.org
- Do not BuildRequire metapackage xorg-x11-devel
* Mon Nov 30 2015 pgajdos@suse.com
- require glibc-locale [bnc#957007]
* Thu Feb 26 2015 mpluskal@suse.com
- Clean spec file with spec-cleaner
- Refresh dependencies
- Add gpg signature
* Tue Apr 16 2013 idonmez@suse.com
- Add Source URL, see https://en.opensuse.org/SourceUrls
* Tue Mar 26 2013 pgajdos@suse.com
- updated to 4.0.18:
* Fix for names of iconv encodings on AIX
* Fix mt_size_t on NetBSD
* Fixed compilation on Mingw
* Fixed doc (especially mformat)
* Fix mformat'ing of FAT12 filesystems with huge cluster sizes
* Minfo prints image file name in mformat command line if an image
file name was given
* Always generate gzip-compressed RPMs, in order to remain
compatible with older distributions
* Fixed buffer overflow with drive letter in mclasserase
- extended fat-bits.patch: add fat_bits parameter again to fat_read()
and old_fat_read(); it is candidate to drop though
* Tue Jul 24 2012 werner@suse.de
- Make it build with texinfo/makeinfo split
* Mon Jul 23 2012 coolo@suse.com
- add texinfo as buildrequire
* Mon Jul 02 2012 cfarrell@suse.com
- license update: GPL-3.0+
mtools is GPL-3.0+ licensed, not GPL-2.0+
* Wed Dec 21 2011 coolo@suse.com
- add autoconf as buildrequire to avoid implicit dependency
* Wed Dec 21 2011 coolo@suse.com
- remove call to suse_update_config (very old work around)
* Thu Jun 30 2011 pgajdos@novell.com
- updated to 4.0.17:
* mbadblocks now takes a list of bad blocks (either as sectors
or as clusters)
* mbadblocks now is able to do write scanning for bad blocks
* mshowfat can show cluster of specific offset
* Enable mtools to deal with very small sector sizes...
* Fixed encoding of all-lowercase names (no need to mangle
these)
* Consider every directory entry after an ENDMARK (0x00) to be deleted
* After writing a new entry at end of a directory, be sure to also add
an ENDMARK (0x00)
* Deal with possibility of a NULL pointer being returned by
localtime during timestamp conversion
* Mon May 23 2011 pgajdos@novell.com
- updated to 4.0.16:
* fixed formatting of fat_size_calculation.tex document
* Make it clear that label is limited to 13 characters
* Fixed typo in initialization of FAT32 info sector
- remove invalid-memory.diff
* Thu Mar 17 2011 pgajdos@suse.cz
- fixed crash caused with access of invalid memory [bnc#679459]
* Tue Nov 16 2010 pgajdos@suse.cz
- updated to version 4.0.15:
* Added missing -i option to mshortname
* New mshortname command
* Fix floppyd for disks bigger than 2 Gig
* Remove obsolete -z flag
* Remove now unsupported AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS
* Fixed output formatting of mdir if MTOOLS_DOTTED_DIR is set
* Mformat now correctly writes backup boot sector
* Fixed signedness of serial number in mlabel
* Fixed buffer size problem in mlabel
* Make mlabel write backup boot sector if FAT32
* Catch situation where both clear and new label are given to mlabel
* Quote filename parameters to scripts
* Mformat: Close file descriptor for boot sector
* Added lzip support to scripts/uz
* Added Tot_sectors option to mformat
* Fixed hidden sector handling in mformat
* Minfo generates mformat command lines containing new -T option
* Mlabel prints error if label too long
- removed upstreamed patches:
* script.diff
* file_close.diff
* initialize.diff
* Tue Jun 29 2010 pgajdos@suse.cz
- fixed initialization in mlabel.c [bnc#618326]
* Mon Mar 01 2010 pgajdos@suse.cz
- updated to 4.0.13 (upstreamed debian patches)
* Sun Dec 06 2009 meissner@suse.de
- uppercase summary of -floppyd
* Tue Nov 24 2009 pgajdos@suse.cz
- updated to 4.0.12 (see NEWS)
- removed upstreamed help-flag.diff and overflow.diff
* Fri Oct 23 2009 pgajdos@suse.cz
- fixed wrong -h flag [bnc#548449]
* help-flag.diff
* Tue Sep 15 2009 pgajdos@suse.cz
- added missing call to close [bnc#535718]
* Wed Apr 15 2009 ro@suse.de
- buildfix: refresh patches
* Mon Mar 16 2009 pgajdos@suse.cz
- updated to 4.0.10 (see NEWS)
* adjusted overflow.patch
- splitted out doc package
* Wed Jan 21 2009 schwab@suse.de
- Fix buffer overflows.
* Tue Jan 13 2009 pgajdos@suse.cz
- updated to 4.0.1
* unicode support
* use transliteration to represent characters which don't exist in
target set
* Offset for -i-specified image files
* Tue Jun 05 2007 prusnak@suse.cz
- updated to 3.9.11
* fixed reading of boot sector
* fixed mlabel on read-only disks
* added sizecode printing on minfo
* support for config parameters after -i file
- drop obsolete patches:
* memset.diff (included in update)
* Sun Apr 22 2007 ro@suse.de
- use texlive for building
* Mon Feb 06 2006 mjancar@suse.cz
- bransh mtools-floppy to prevent dependecy on X11 (#146102)
* Wed Jan 25 2006 mls@suse.de
- converted neededforbuild to BuildRequires
* Fri Nov 18 2005 meissner@suse.de
- fixed swapped memset() arguments.
* Wed Aug 03 2005 mjancar@suse.cz
- update to 3.9.10
- drop obsolete patches:
* mtools-3.9.9-20030718.diff.gz
* mtools-execNULL.diff
- split mtools-3.9.9.diff into:
* mtools-3.9.10-autoconf.diff
* mtools-3.9.10-conf.diff
* mtools-3.9.10-prototypes.diff
* Tue Apr 05 2005 mmj@suse.de
- execl(..., 0) --> execl(..., NULL);
* Sun Feb 13 2005 ro@suse.de
- added libpng to nfb (for tetex)
* Mon Jan 24 2005 meissner@suse.de
- fixed one execl call, fixed one lvalue cast.
* Sun Jun 13 2004 schwab@suse.de
- Allow overriding fat bits.
* Thu Apr 22 2004 tcrhak@suse.cz
- strict aliasing fix
* Sat Jan 10 2004 adrian@suse.de
- build as user
* Thu Jul 31 2003 uli@suse.de
- fixed to build on 64-bit archs
* Tue Jul 29 2003 tcrhak@suse.cz
- update to version 3.9.9
* Thu Dec 19 2002 tcrhak@suse.cz
- updated patch to mtools-3.9.8-20021118.diff.bz2
* Tue Sep 17 2002 ro@suse.de
- removed bogus self-provides
* Mon Dec 03 2001 tcrhak@suse.cz
- updated patch to mtools-3.9.8-20011127.diff.bz2
* Mon Oct 01 2001 schwab@suse.de
- Fix quoting in shell scripts.
* Wed Jun 13 2001 adostal@suse.cz
- upgrade to 3.9.8
* Tue Jun 12 2001 schwab@suse.de
- Fix configure script.
* Tue Apr 03 2001 cihlar@suse.cz
- updated patchkit
* Mon Mar 26 2001 cihlar@suse.cz
- updated patchkit
* Fri Feb 09 2001 cihlar@suse.cz
- removed lx_suse from neededforbuild
- do not include kernel headers
* Thu Feb 08 2001 cihlar@suse.cz
- fixed to compile
* Tue Jan 09 2001 cihlar@suse.cz
- updated patchkit
* Tue Dec 05 2000 cihlar@suse.cz
- updated patchkit
* Wed Nov 22 2000 cihlar@suse.cz
- updated patchkit
* Thu Nov 09 2000 cihlar@suse.cz
- improved BuildRoot
- fixed file list
- bzipped sources
* Fri Oct 20 2000 cihlar@suse.cz
- updated patchkit
* Fri Sep 08 2000 schwab@suse.de
- Fix typo in configure script and pass -D_GNU_SOURCE to compiler
(obsoletes last change for alpha)
- Add suse_update_config.
* Mon Aug 28 2000 ro@suse.de
- fixed to compile on alpha
* Wed Aug 16 2000 cihlar@suse.cz
- updated patchkit
* Sat Jun 24 2000 kasal@suse.de
- updated patchkit
* Mon Jun 19 2000 kasal@suse.de
- upgrade to 3.9.7
* Wed Apr 26 2000 kasal@suse.de
- upgrade to mtools-3.9.6-20000417.diff.gz
* Wed Apr 12 2000 kasal@suse.cz
- upgrade to mtools-3.9.6-20000410.diff.gz
* Mon Mar 27 2000 kasal@suse.cz
- added patch mtools-3.9.6-20000320b.diff.gz (fixes BUG# 2590)
* Wed Mar 01 2000 kasal@suse.de
- moved manpages to %{_mandir}
- added buildroot and shortened %filelist
- added mtools.info* files (and texinfo to #neededforbuild)
* Mon Sep 20 1999 uli@suse.de
- fixed #include conflict showing up on PPC
* Mon Sep 13 1999 bs@suse.de
- ran old prepare_spec on spec file to switch to new prepare_spec.
* Fri Jul 09 1999 uli@suse.de
- update -> 3.9.6
* Tue Mar 23 1999 ro@suse.de
- don't use -O4 ; strip binaries
* Mon Mar 22 1999 ro@suse.de
- update to 3.9.4
* Fri Dec 11 1998 rj@suse.de
- parameters in mtools.conf for 1,44MB disks hardcoded
* Wed Oct 28 1998 ro@suse.de
- respect change in 2.1.126 SCSI_DISK_MAJOR
* Sun Jul 26 1998 bs@suse.de
- used old config file again.
* Tue Jul 21 1998 bs@suse.de
- update to version 3.9.1
* Tue Feb 24 1998 ro@suse.de
- removed man-pages mread and mwrite
(contain no information, just texinfos blabla)
* Thu Jun 12 1997 rj@suse.de
- modification in /etc/mtools.conf
* Fri Apr 18 1997 rj@suse.de
- new version 3.6
* Mon Mar 03 1997 rj@suse.de
- new version 3.3
* Tue Feb 25 1997 rj@suse.de
- new version 3.2
- /usr/doc/packages/mtools now included
- xdf Support
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