On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 12:27:29PM +0200, Hans-Peter Zorn wrote:
I would prefer a distribution independend approach. I is great that SuSE is supporting ham radio in its distribution but I don't think that _all_ hams will switch to SuSE (i am in love with debian, sorry ;) and as (ham-) developer resources are limited it would be better to collaborate and to come up with a distibution independent solution.
Oh, I agree -- My intention is to have the core stuff independent from the distribution. Thus we can have front ends for Yast2, linuxrc or debconf while the rest of the configuration setup basicly remains the same (apart from the location of some files -- but the FHS will hopefully take care of it). To keep it as flexible as possible: - a couple of front ends that just read and write a central configuration file - probably a couple of helper applications that can generate the files in /etc/ax25/ (Similar to the things SuSEconfig or debconf does, but independent of it) - a single start/stop script that parses this config file - the start/stop script should be able to source additional user-defined scripts Result: maximum flexibility, user friendly, maintainable, upgradeable, ... 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)