On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, Mike McCarthy, W1NR wrote:
I guess there is no longer a "definitive" source for the Ham Radio packages.
What really needs to happen is for the openSuSE team to get their build service finished and a couple of the Ham developers need to convince them to make these packages part of the build service. I will be glad to help. Anyone else like to volunteer?
For what it's worth I'm taking a different tack with Xastir, going after LSB-compliance so that I can package up a binary RPM that will work on any LSB-3.0 compliant Linux system. I have a .tar.bz2 file for testing already, created on OpenSuSE-10.0. People have tried it on other types of Linux systems already with good success. One of the Xastir users that knows much more about RPM's than I do has volunteered to help with the RPM packaging for it. I probably won't be compiling in AX.25 networking support for this binary as I doubt I could get it compiled under LSB to begin with. Even then the AX.25 code is tied to the kernel version and so it wouldn't be a universal binary. There will be a bunch of work as it is trying to get more of the optional libraries compiled under LSB, then linked in with the Xastir binary. -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown "Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates." -- WE7U "The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system!"