From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Robert =?iso-8859-1?q?Steinh=E4u=DFer?= Subject: ham radio RPMs for SUSE [was: Re: AX-25 software that works on Fedora Core 4?] Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2005 19:37:26 +0200 Message-ID: <200508211937.31232.robert@steinhaeusser.com> References: <001701c5a4ef$996db510$a4011fac@kb2ear1> <33093.83.73.68.20.1124569837.squirrel@www.amsat.dk> <200508210844.39309.n7bfs@qwest.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart5731092.p9qt8h95C8"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <200508210844.39309.n7bfs@qwest.net> Sender: linux-hams-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: To: linux-hams@vger.kernel.org --nextPart5731092.p9qt8h95C8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Hello all, Douglas Cole wrote: > I also noticed that version 10 seems to be ignoring amateur radio as well, > and was wondering if anyone on the list knows why SuSE dropped the "Ham > Radio" package group? Joerg Reuter, DL1BKE gave some information about the ham= =20 radio packages in the SUSE LINUX distribution on the (German) "suse-ham"=20 mailing list. You can find his original message in the archives or ask me; = I=20 can send you a copy. Here is a rough translation from German. You can find RPMs for SUSE 9.3 here: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/ham/9.3-i386 (or a SUSE mirror of your choice). You can add this directory as an=20 installation source (command line: "yast install_source") and then install= =20 using YaST. =20 Joerg can only update these packages in his spare time. He has no time for= =20 testing and calls them "highly inofficial". The main reason for no longer including ham radio programs in the distribut= ion=20 is that many of these programs aren't under active development and it is=20 getting more and more difficult to let them work under a new distribution.= =20 Package maintanance is simply costing too much effort, and many programs on= ly=20 compile on the PC architecture and thus require even more effort from Joerg= =20 as packager and from the autobuild team. Additionally, the potential costs= =20 for quick and effective handling of security problems are quite high. Joerg also sees an advantage for himself by continuing these packages on hi= s=20 own: During the last weeks of a new release's beta phase he only has to che= ck=20 once that these packages compile -- and no longer (in extreme cases) weekly= ,=20 every time somebody checks in a new compiler, GLIBC, QT oder KDE update. 73, Robert DL1NC/N9KBK --nextPart5731092.p9qt8h95C8 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBDCLvbo4a8ramwUd8RAg4sAKCpqziMkFEZMyHO/cyP98/X/CcaTACgk2Jc ThYYIJOI8zk51r2+KMyfUqo= =9/f7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart5731092.p9qt8h95C8--