On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 09:26:11PM +0200, Maxim Heijndijk wrote: > I installed the LIRC RPM 2 days ago, but I had to configure a lot to make things >work. It did not work initially with my home brew receiver on a serial port, because >the 'lirc_serial.o' kernel module was not in the RPM. Also, it will not work with >devfs (MDK 8.2). > > I edited the init scripts to make it work more failsafe, and I added more >configuration options in /etc/sysconfig/lircd. Things should work more 'out of the >box' now. > > Maybe it is a good idea to compile this thing for different drivers and split up the >package accordingly. > > Right now the SRPM must be built as root because a make install wants to create >/dev/lirc. Maybe a patch would be appropriate.
The real problem with lirc is that it isn't designed to be configurable at run time and as such it makes it really difficult to package in an RPM. Frankly I don't believe that many people are using it and it probably shouldn't be packaged anyway. But that's just my thoughts on the matter. Of course I made such comments back around the time it was originally packaged. -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org We tend to see all wars through the lens of the current conflict, and we mine history for lessons convenient to the present purpose. - Brian Hayes
