Description of problem: Rufus is a utility that helps format and create bootable USB flash drives, such as USB keys/pendrives, memory sticks, etc. I saw a guy using the program and even thou he used an older USB drive and using Windows it wrote the Ubuntu ISO faster than IÍve seen before. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.9
Here's their website as well: http://rufus.akeo.ie/
Assigning to the new default assignee for package requests. I cannot find why we never packaged it, it seems to have a GPL license. @ papoteur Do you happen to know whether there's a reason not to package it?
CC: (none) => marja11, yves.brungard_mageiaAssignee: bugsquad => pkg-bugsSummary: Rufus - The Reliable USB Formatting Utility => rufus, Rufus - The Reliable USB Formatting UtilitySource RPM: (none) => rufus
Summary: rufus, Rufus - The Reliable USB Formatting Utility => Rufus - The Reliable USB Formatting Utility
@ Kristoffer The package name at the beginning of the summary needs to be in lower case letters, see https://wiki.mageia.org/en/How_to_report_a_bug_properly#How_to_file_a_package_request: > (Summary) please give "the package name", "a short summary of the programs > purpose" > Example: vagrant, a tool to build virtualized environments with VirtualBox > please use only lower case (small) letters in the package names, that will make > it easier to check once in a while whether we already have them.
Summary: Rufus - The Reliable USB Formatting Utility => rufus - The Reliable USB Formatting Utility
@marja Because, for what I know, it's a Windows only program.
(In reply to papoteur from comment #4) > Because, for what I know, it's a Windows only program. Indeed. Closing as WONTFIX.
Status: NEW => RESOLVEDResolution: (none) => WONTFIX
I could be wrong, but looking at the source code makes me wonder why Windows uses make as make belongs to Linux. Shouldn't they use visual basic or similar to build in Windows?
`make` does not belong to Linux, just as autotools, it's a cross-platform tool. And the readme is relatively clear "Use either Visual Studio 2015, WDK 7.1 (Windows Driver Kit) or MinGW and then invoke the .sln, wdk_build.cmd or configure/make respectively." [0] [0] https://github.com/pbatard/rufus
(In reply to Rémi Verschelde from comment #7) > `make` does not belong to Linux, just as autotools, it's a cross-platform > tool. > > And the readme is relatively clear "Use either Visual Studio 2015, WDK 7.1 > (Windows Driver Kit) or MinGW and then invoke the .sln, wdk_build.cmd or > configure/make respectively." [0] > > [0] https://github.com/pbatard/rufus No offence, but we have mingw in our repos. Isn't that the same?
"MinGW, a contraction of "Minimalist GNU for Windows", is a minimalist development environment for native Microsoft Windows applications." What more is there to say? We have mingw in our repos to build Windows binaries. That doesn't make Rufus a Linux program, just one that we _can_ build on Linux to use on Windows or in wine (if it works).
(In reply to Rémi Verschelde from comment #9) > "MinGW, a contraction of "Minimalist GNU for Windows", is a minimalist > development environment for native Microsoft Windows applications." > > What more is there to say? We have mingw in our repos to build Windows > binaries. That doesn't make Rufus a Linux program, just one that we _can_ > build on Linux to use on Windows or in wine (if it works). True dat, but admit that Rufus looks really promising thou. :)