Re: ham radio files missing

On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 08:42, Joerg Reuter wrote:
> 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,
Thanks for the info. Many thanks for building the packages, I understand
they are not official. I don't use them all but they are nice to have
and as you say they are old (still work, AX.25 protocol hasn't changed
in awhile). Some programs have newer versions out there but SUSE RPMs
for them are hard to find, XASTIR is one. I am still fairly new at Linux
and someday hope to learn how to build RPMs from the tarballs.

Jim
WA3UQD