That is possible. As I said, the forum thread related to this that was referenced early on in this thread made the claim. Zero configuration would probably only work with USB devices. I think there is some logic in gpsd to explore if a GPS can be detected on all serial ports. But I do not know how well that works or if it messes things up. Still, for that to happen, a startup mechanism is needed. It cannot check if it is not started. gpsdrive can talk to a gpsd to get data. gpsd is a GPS multiplexer making GPS data available to any number of clients. I think it is probably bad that gpsdrive contains it's own gpsd. On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 12:34 PM, Carlos E. R. <robin.listas@telefonica.net> wrote:
On 2015-01-15 09:19, Andrei Borzenkov wrote:
On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 9:44 AM, Roger Oberholtzer <> wrote:
When have you seen it last time? I do not see initscript in https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Application:Geo/gpsd?rev=67 which is "over 3 years ago".
Looking at discontinued distributions (http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/discontinued/distribution/), I see gpsd-2.95-3.6.x86_64.rpm for 11.4, but on 10.2 I don't; instead I see gpsdrive-2.09-63.x86_64.rpm, which I do not know if it is the same thing or not.
11.0 has gpsd-2.37-25.1.x86_64.rpm. It has an udev rule, no initd script.
10.3 does not have gpsd, but has gpsdrive-2.09-135.x86_64.rpm
So, gpsd never had an init script in openSUSE. The readme file says that the goal is zero config, autoplug.
gpsdrive I don't know what it is, but it has no init file either. It has a gpsd binary, though, so it is probably the ancestor of the gpsd package.
So, if there ever was an init script, it was not here. Maybe someone contributed it externally.
-- Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)
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