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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> gave some information about the ham
radio packages in the SUSE LINUX distribution on the (German) "suse-ham"
mailing list. You can find his original message in the archives or ask me; I
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
installation source (command line: "yast install_source") and then install
using YaST.
Joerg can only update these packages in his spare time. He has no time for
testing and calls them "highly inofficial".
The main reason for no longer including ham radio programs in the distribution
is that many of these programs aren't under active development and it is
getting more and more difficult to let them work under a new distribution.
Package maintanance is simply costing too much effort, and many programs only
compile on the PC architecture and thus require even more effort from Joerg
as packager and from the autobuild team. Additionally, the potential costs
for quick and effective handling of security problems are quite high.
Joerg also sees an advantage for himself by continuing these packages on his
own: During the last weeks of a new release's beta phase he only has to check
once that these packages compile -- and no longer (in extreme cases) weekly,
every time somebody checks in a new compiler, GLIBC, QT oder KDE update.
73, Robert DL1NC/N9KBK
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