./sysutils/sformat, SCSI disk maintainance, formating, and ultimative repair tool

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Branch: CURRENT, Version: 3.7, Package name: sformat-3.7, Maintainer: pkgsrc-users

Sformat is the best SCSI disk tool, I came across in the last 20 years.
It is able to repair and format nearly any disk, as long as its heads
are still in working condition and a few percent of its blocks are
writable. Once you have learned to use it, you will never think of using
something else. Formating a disk with sformat does not only send a
scsi-format command to the disk, but also make a detailed surface
analysis after formating. The defect lists are updated, and you come out
with a reliable disk, again. Thanks Joerg.

On the other side, like with any other powerful tool, you have to invest
some time in learning. Well invested time.


Required to build:
[pkgtools/cwrappers]

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   2023-04-21 16:01:42 by Michael Baeuerle | Files touched by this commit (14) | Package removed
Log message:
sysutils/sformat: Update to 3.7

Reset maintainer (e-Mail address no longer valid).
Switch to schilytools release.

AN-2023-04-19:
- libschily: no longer provide the symbols fgetline, getline.
  libschily used to provide these symbols as alternative names for
  js_getline and js_fgetline for compatibility with UNOS.  As
  their POSIX-incompatible signature causes problems when linking
  against musl statically, we now no longer provide these symbols
  by default.  Users wishing to restore the old behaviour should
  remove -DNO_GETLINE_COMPAT from CPPOPTS when compiling libschily.

- libschily: accordingly, the man pages getline(3) and fgetline(3)
  have been renamed to js_getline(3) and js_fgetline(3).

- RULES: fix HCC_COM expansion when CCOM=clang.  This fixes builds
  with GNU make when CCOM=clang.
  Submitted by: Nico Sonack.

AN-2021-09-01:
- sformat: Added support for gettext() based translations
  The string "Jörg Schilling" is now separate and in a gettext() call.

AN-2021-07-29:
- sformat: changed open(..., 0) -> open(..., O_RDONLY) for z/OS

  Thanks to a report from Matthew R. Wilson

- sformat:checkmount.c: did use HAVE_SYS_MNTENT_H instead of
  HAVE_SYS_MNTTAB_H as a result of a typo that was introduced with
  the code to #include <sys/mnttab.h>.

  Thanks to a report from Matthew R. Wilson

AN-2018-10-30:
- libschily: ovstrcpy() from various programs has been moved to libschily.
  This affects smake, mkisofs, patch, ved, count, sformat

AN-2018-05-25:
- sformat: The man page used .cs that dos not work with GNU troff because
  of a GNU troff bug. We no longer use this command for nroff. Note that
  the GNU troff bug still applies if you try to print the man page.

- sformat: History and Download sections have been added to the man page

AN-2018-03-01:
- sformat: A new option -randv has been added. This option behaves
  similar to -randrw but does not write to the disk and thus is less
  harmful to already impaired disks.

- sformat: The random tests now use drand48(). This is needed in order
  to get a sufficient coverage for modern large disks.

AN-2017-09-25:
- Sformat: The terminating condition for a manual sector size
  question for Adaptec controllers has been corrected.

AN-2016-01-25:
- sformat: A new option scgopts=list has been introduced.

AN-2015-11-26:
- sformat: diskfmt.c now casts a computation to always result in a long long
  printf() argument.

AN-2015-11-21:
- sformat: fixed a printf() format size problem on Minix3 32 bits.
  Thanks to Heiko Eißfeldt for reporting.

AN-2013-05-10
- Include file reordering in sformat to avoid warnings on older platforms

AN-2011-08-29:
- sformat(1) now compiles and works on Win-DOS using the Microsoft compiler.

AN-2011-08-10:
- sformat now only sets up signal handlers for existing signals to support MSC

AN-2009-12-29:
- [...]
  sformat/datio.c:
  [...]
  Do no longer shorten strings using strcpy()/wcscpy() as newer POSIX
  versions claim that overlapping buffers cause undefined.
  results and as the Solaris 64 bit libc starting with Build 125,.
  implements strcpy() using SSE instructions and thus fails with
  overlapping strings.
   2021-10-26 13:20:30 by Nia Alarie | Files touched by this commit (630)
Log message:
sysutils: Replace RMD160 checksums with BLAKE2s checksums

All checksums have been double-checked against existing RMD160 and
SHA512 hashes
   2021-10-07 16:58:44 by Nia Alarie | Files touched by this commit (630)
Log message:
sysutils: Remove SHA1 hashes for distfiles
   2020-05-16 04:15:53 by Joerg Sonnenberger | Files touched by this commit (2)
Log message:
Drop unused but conflicting prototype.
   2017-08-19 02:25:19 by Johnny C. Lam | Files touched by this commit (1)
Log message:
sysutils/sformat: Install manpages into ${PKGMANDIR}.

Override MANDIR=man settings in project Makefiles by passing an
explicit MANDIR=${PKGMANDIR} on the make(1) command line so that
manpages are installed into the correct location under
${PKGMANDIR}.
   2015-11-04 02:32:42 by Alistair G. Crooks | Files touched by this commit (499)
Log message:
Add SHA512 digests for distfiles for sysutils category

Problems found with existing digests:
	Package memconf distfile memconf-2.16/memconf.gz
	b6f4b736cac388dddc5070670351cf7262aba048 [recorded]
	95748686a5ad8144232f4d4abc9bf052721a196f [calculated]

Problems found locating distfiles:
	Package dc-tools: missing distfile dc-tools/abs0-dc-burn-netbsd-1.5-0-gae55ec9
	Package ipw-firmware: missing distfile ipw2100-fw-1.2.tgz
	Package iwi-firmware: missing distfile ipw2200-fw-2.3.tgz
	Package nvnet: missing distfile nvnet-netbsd-src-20050620.tgz
	Package syslog-ng: missing distfile syslog-ng-3.7.2.tar.gz

Otherwise, existing SHA1 digests verified and found to be the same on
the machine holding the existing distfiles (morden).  All existing
SHA1 digests retained for now as an audit trail.
   2014-10-09 16:07:17 by Thomas Klausner | Files touched by this commit (1163)
Log message:
Remove pkgviews: don't set PKG_INSTALLATION_TYPES in Makefiles.
   2013-04-06 05:45:29 by Blue Rats | Files touched by this commit (152)
Log message:
Fixes:

 COMMENT should not be longer than 70 characters.
 COMMENT should not begin with 'A'.
 COMMENT should not begin with 'An'.
 COMMENT should not begin with 'a'.
 COMMENT should not end with a period.
 COMMENT should start with a capital letter.

pkglint warnings. Some files also got minor formatting, spelling, and style
corrections.