On Sat, Apr 16, 2005 at 01:07:03PM -0400, Jim Hartzell wrote:
I was just looking at the package list for SUSE 9.3 PRO on Novell's web site. I cannot find the "Ham radio" packages
As Thomas wrote, you can find them on ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/ham/9.3-i386 or on any SUSE LINUX mirror that carries the projects folder. You can simply add the directory as a YaST installation source ("yast inst_source") to be able to install them via YaST. Please note that I maintain these package in my spare time and that I currently cannot test them as I don't find the time... Thus, the packages are not official SUSE LINUX packages. The reason for not delivering hamradio packages on the media kit is that most of the programs are quite old. It becomes more and more difficult to even be able to build them. Additionally, many of them won't build on any other system architecture than PC (i386), causing additional load on me and our autobuild team. And finally, the potential costs to react fast and correctly in case of security issues with these packages are too high to justify further support for the packages. Maintaining the packages privately has at least one advantage for me: I have to fix and build the packages only once within the last weeks of the beta phase of the product, opposed to (in some cases) weekly after someone has checked in a new gcc, glibc, QT or KDE update. 73, -- Joerg Reuter DL1BKE http://yaina.de/jreuter And I make my way to where the warm scent of soil fills the evening air. Everything is waiting quietly out there.... (Anne Clark)