RPM package for AX25 libraries
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Hi Arno,
You encouraged me to build an RPM package for AX25 softwares. I tried without success checkinstall and went to rpmbuild following a few documentation and RPM howtos.
I decided to start with libax25-0.0.12-rc2 including two patches from me. After a number of trials, the learning curve started to take off. I finally made two RPM packages for 32 and 64 bits systems. Due to my tiny experience I was not able to make a relocatable library. Then it has to be moved into /usr/local/lib as explained in the updated FPAC MINI HOWTO chapter 3.
http://rose.fpac.free.fr/MINI-HOWTO/#s3
Please follow the links for downloading the libax25 rpm packages.
I would appreciate any comment about the packages use and if needed I will continue the work for patched ax25-tools and ax25-apps.
73 de Bernard, f6bvp
Le 03/09/2010 08:58, Arno Ernst a écrit :
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Dear Bernard,
Many thanks for your ax25 patches and the great HOWTO which really help to get Packet Radio running with the (new) pseudo terminal multiplexer !
Users who followed the steps outlined at
http://rose.fpac.free.fr/MINI-HOWTO/
might face difficulties when installing other software that depends on ax25 libraries, tools and applications. The package manager is not aware that the latter already has been installed from source.
A nice way out is to use "checkinstall" instead of "make install".
"checkinstall" will create a package (Slackware, RPM or Debian) which then can be installed with the package manager of the user's Linux distribution.
Most distributions already have "checkinstall" in their repositories. If not the homepage is
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Could you please add "checkinstall" to your MINI-HOWTO ?
Below please find a sample "checkinstall" dialogue.
mni tnx es 73 de experimental station DA5UWG sysop DF3DS
arno
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Hi Bernard,
Many thanks for your feedback and effort on ax.25.
With success I tried "checkinstall" without any parameters instead of "make install" in the respective source directory on both opensuse 11.3 and Ubuntu 10.04. In one case - I forgot wether it was opensuse or ubuntu the package created by "checkinstall" was automatically installed whereas in the other case I manually had to install.
Just recently I came across that Christoph (DK2CRN) did work on the pseudo terminal multiplexer (Unix98 PTY) capability of the Linux net-tools package.
With his patches "slattach" with Unix98 PTY support was compiled here which was needed to get xnet/linuxnet as a software (telnet) interface from pskmail_server to ax.25 working.
Maybe this links is also of interest to you.
http://www.linux-ax25.org/wiki/CVS
73 es tnx agn
arno
Quoted 16 lines · Bernard Pidoux
Hi Arno,
You encouraged me to build an RPM package for AX25 softwares. I tried without success checkinstall and went to rpmbuild following a few documentation and RPM howtos.
I decided to start with libax25-0.0.12-rc2 including two patches from me. After a number of trials, the learning curve started to take off. I finally made two RPM packages for 32 and 64 bits systems. Due to my tiny experience I was not able to make a relocatable library. Then it has to be moved into/usr/local/libas explained in the updated FPAC MINI HOWTO chapter 3.http://rose.fpac.free.fr/MINI-HOWTO/#s3
Please follow the links for downloading the libax25 rpm packages.
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I would appreciate any comment about the packages use and if needed I will continue the work for patched ax25-tools and ax25-apps.
73 de Bernard, f6bvp
Le 03/09/2010 08:58, Arno Ernst a écrit :
Quoted 35 lines
Dear Bernard,
Many thanks for your ax25 patches and the great HOWTO which really help to get Packet Radio running with the (new) pseudo terminal multiplexer !
Users who followed the steps outlined at
http://rose.fpac.free.fr/MINI-HOWTO/
might face difficulties when installing other software that depends on ax25 libraries, tools and applications. The package manager is not aware that the latter already has been installed from source.
A nice way out is to use "checkinstall" instead of "make install".
"checkinstall" will create a package (Slackware, RPM or Debian) which then can be installed with the package manager of the user's Linux distribution.
Most distributions already have "checkinstall" in their repositories. If not the homepage is
http://www.asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/
Could you please add "checkinstall" to your MINI-HOWTO ?
Below please find a sample "checkinstall" dialogue.
mni tnx es 73 de experimental station DA5UWG sysop DF3DS
arno
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