Re: ham radio files missing

I tried the url below [ ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/ham/9.3-i386] and
couldn't get in so lopped off the last bit and go in .. then clicked on the
folder and found nothing inside ???


73, Dick ZS6RO

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Hartzell" <[email protected]>
To: "Joerg Reuter" <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005 4:03 PM
Subject: Re: [suse-ham-e] 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
>
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