Re: hfsplus-tools executables renamed
Il 03/08/2016 17:07, Chris Murphy ha scritto:
On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 12:43 AM, Ville Skyttä
<ville.skytta(a)iki.fi> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 9:00 AM, Mattia Verga <mattia.verga(a)tiscali.it> wrote:
>> it seems that the hfsplus-tools package arbitrary renames its executables. This
prevents kde-partitionmanager to fully support HFS+.
>> I've opened a bug [1] for this, but I received no answer.
>>
>> Anyone knows why those executables are renamed?
> Don't know, but I guess that's done to make "mkfs -t hfsplus" and
> "fsck -t hfsplus" work. See the mkfs and fsck man pages for more info.
I'm pretty sure a symlink mkfs.hfsplus -> newfs_hfs and fsck.hfsplus
-> fsck_hfs would satisfy all requirements. This is what ntfsprogs
does.
Thanks, I also think using symlinks instead of renaming executables
would be better.
I will add a note to the bug report to see if this is possible.