* How to bring ddrescue up to date? @ 2015-12-13 23:29 Webbed.Pete 2015-12-14 6:34 ` Christian Franke 0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread From: Webbed.Pete @ 2015-12-13 23:29 UTC (permalink / raw) To: cygwin (First time poster here. Hi all ;) ) The ddrescue package has not been updated in cygwin since 2013. However, the underlying app has gone through a LOT of improvement since then, all the way through this month. Questions: * How best to request an update by the maintainer? * How hard for me to generate my own update? * Are multiple maintainers allowed for a package? Thanks! Pete -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
* Re: How to bring ddrescue up to date? 2015-12-13 23:29 How to bring ddrescue up to date? Webbed.Pete @ 2015-12-14 6:34 ` Christian Franke 2015-12-14 15:56 ` Webbed.Pete 0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread From: Christian Franke @ 2015-12-14 6:34 UTC (permalink / raw) To: cygwin Webbed.Pete wrote: > (First time poster here. Hi all ;) ) Welcome! > The ddrescue package has not been updated in cygwin since 2013. However, the > underlying app has gone through a LOT of improvement since then, all the way through > this month. I will provide ddrescue 1.21 soon after its release. Regards, Christian -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
* Re: How to bring ddrescue up to date? 2015-12-14 6:34 ` Christian Franke @ 2015-12-14 15:56 ` Webbed.Pete 0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread From: Webbed.Pete @ 2015-12-14 15:56 UTC (permalink / raw) To: cygwin Christian wrote: >I will provide ddrescue 1.21 soon after its release. Great! I worked out how to build a new version for myself (but not the test 1.21 versions... how do I make a .sig file?) The new features make a HUGE difference. I can still see some room for improvement, but not much. It now correctly detects drives that require power cycle after hitting a bad spot (can set it to go back and re-read a good spot after hitting an error. If it can't read the good spot it will quit.) And, within limits, you can now control how far it jumps when it finds a bad spot. Thanks, Christian! Pete -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
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