Package Removal: macutils

[David Cantrell]

Tom Callaway wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 10:47 -0600, Orion Poplawski wrote:
>> Tom Callaway wrote:
>>> As part of Fedora's ongoing commitment to Free Software, we have been
>>> undergoing a license audit of the packages contained in Fedora Core. 
>>>
>>> The macutils package was found to have no valid license or copyright,
>>> and questionable lineage. Since nothing depends on macutils, this was a
>>> trivial package to remove, and it has been taken out of Fedora Core
>>> starting with FC-6.
>>>
>>> Full details are in the bugzilla report here:
>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=202518
>>>
>>> ~spot
>> I've made use of it in the past as an end user.  Is there any kind of 
>> replacement out there for dealing with Mac format files?
> 
> macutils has:
> 
> - bin/hex converters (perl has Convert::Binhex)
> - apps to send files to and from OLD macs (I'm not aware of any other
> apps)

There's hfsutils for reading/writing high density HFS floppies (and 
other HFS media).

netatalk was useful in the past to share files with pre-OSX Macs.

-- 
David Cantrell
Red Hat / Westford, MA