Hi folks,In talking with the current maintainer of FBB, the question about AX.25 libraries comes up. Apparently he is maintaining a fork from the default ones. I would probably share his opinion of the maintainers in general (or at least of one of them).
Your thoughts on switching to his fork? -- John -------- Original Message -------- Subject: rc2 packages - was [xfbb] Segfault Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2010 19:41:34 +0100 From: Bernard Pidoux <bpidoux@free.fr> To: List for the LINUX version of FBB <xfbb@f6fbb.org> CC: John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org>, "Bernard, f6bvp" <f6bvp@free.fr> Hi John, Yes I meant rc-2. Sorry for the typo. The differences between linux-ax25.org rc2 and my patches are explained on ham list http://marc.info/?l=linux-hams&m=127100518308225&w=4 Follow the discussion with <next-thread> and <previous thread> I sent patches years ago but the maintainers were not very reactive. Other contributors provided some patches that I collected. I advertized new versions on the list, each time sending CC to ax25.org maintainers. Finally they havec included some patches into CVS repository. But they are not yet published in available rc2 packages. And rc2 are quite old. See http://www.linux-ax25.org/cvsweb/ As we cannot wait for years to get a working ROSE/FPAC system we must go on and use our own libraries and tools and apps. This is peculiarly true for ax25ipd we have been using for years now after a very convenient patch allowing dynamic IP use. All AX.25 stuff included in distro (Debian, Mandriva, RedHat etc...) are quite obsolete and do not work. Lets hope this will evolve if someone cares. However the number of contributors to hamradio software is sadly getting less every year. Lets hope we will see a reverse curve like the sunspots cycle ! 73 de Bernard, f6bvp Le 23/12/2010 02:25, John Goerzen a écrit :
On 12/22/2010 05:48 PM, Bernard, f6bvp wrote:Hi John, Dozens of stations with Debian derived Ubuntu Linux are using my rc12-patched librariesDid you mean rc2? And can you explain the difference between the linux-ax25.org libraries and your patched versions? Do they plan to integrate your patches?versions without facing any problem. I strongly recommand using it 73 de Bernard, f6bvp Le 22/12/2010 22:51, John Goerzen a écrit :On 12/22/2010 02:43 PM, f6bvp wrote:Hi John, This is an interesting report. First we have to be sure you started FBB correctly, i.e. using rc.fbb script. Could you provide us the FBB log file in /var/log/fbb.logI have no log file at that location, but I have /var/ax25/fbb/log/fbblog10.51. Is that what you want?Also, what AX25 libraries did you installed ? Is it the one from http://f6bvp.free.fr/logiciels/ax25/libax25-0.0.12_rc2-1_i386.deb or from source package http://f6bvp.free.fr/logiciels/ax25/libax25-0.0.12-rc2.patched_f6bvp.tar.bz2I am using the AX.25 libraries built into Debian, which are 0.0.11-6.1. There was some discussion about switching to the RCs in an unrelated bug report I filed, but several people felt that the RCs were of significantly lower stability than official releases. Also I am on amd64.We will then see if it is necessary to start some debug session including libax25 and FBB.Yes, will be happy to run gdb/strace/whatever. -- John_______________________________________________ xfbb maillist - xfbb@f6fbb.org http://mailman.f6fbb.org/mailman/listinfo/xfbb