Re: Our ax25libs packages
It's generaly not wise for software to rely on forks.
Over the years, Bernard tends to attend his own fork and sends pointers
for his work to mailing-lists.
Sometimes we as maintainers get an info that this or that should be
included in the official version.
We include patches and enhancements
- if they're sent to us and not only silently put to an ftp-server somewhere in the world
- if they really fix the problem
- if they show clearly what they do
- if they raise no other issues
- if they have match a quality standard
Please do not use the release candidate "rc2" because it has known problems.
vy 73,
- Thomas dl9sau
On 2010-12-23 15:38:49 -0600, John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org>
wrote in <[🔎] 4D13C169.9090202@complete.org>:
> 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 libraries
> >
> >Did 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.log
> >>>
> >>>I 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.bz2
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>I 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
> >>
> >>
> >
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