RE: Ham radio packages source for 10.1 (or even 10.2)??

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.

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