Ham radio packages source for 10.1 (or even 10.2)??
Hi I am wondering where is a definitive source of ham packages sor SuSe 10.1. I have ftp.w1nr.net which was the only source I could find so far. Richard (Dick) G4BBH
On Tue, 28 Nov 2006, ferrymanr wrote:
Hi I am wondering where is a definitive source of ham packages sor SuSe 10.1. I have ftp.w1nr.net which was the only source I could find so far.
Missing packages: ftp://suse.mirrors.tds.net/pub/opensuse/distribution/SL-10.1/inst-source/suse Ham stuff: http://dg7gt.osth.de/suse-10.1-ham/ Xastir (APRS): http://www.xastir.org I got the first two from the Xastir README file: "Adding these sites will allow you to find and install the ax25 libraries/devel headers, the OpenMotif development headers, and the libcurl headers." -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com 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!"
I guess there is no longer a "definitive" source for the Ham Radio packages. They were dropped from the main distro in 9.3 and were put in the "projects" tree off ftp.suse.com by J. Reuter, DL1BKE. There were packages there for 9.3 and 10.0 and are mirrored on many sites. I have not seen anything since the 10.0 packages. I simply repackaged the 10.0 so that 10.1 would recognize them as a valid install source. DG7GT went a step further and updated and recompiled them for 10.1. I have mirrored his package tree on ftp.w1nr.net. Someone will need to repackage them again for 10.2 as they changed the way install sources are handled (again sigh!). Once 10.2 is released, I will try and find the time to repackage them again, but no promises at this point. 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? Mike, W1NR _____ From: ferrymanr [mailto:ferrymanr@yahoo.co.uk] Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 4:51 PM To: suse-ham-e@suse.com Subject: [suse-ham-e] Ham radio packages source for 10.1 (or even 10.2)?? Hi I am wondering where is a definitive source of ham packages sor SuSe 10.1. I have ftp.w1nr.net which was the only source I could find so far. Richard (Dick) G4BBH
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!"
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