Re: flexfax: Announcement: RPMs for hylafax and libgr

[Matthew.Rice@ftlsol.com]

[lurk mode OFF]

Quite a fun little thread we have going here...
To answer a few questions that I've seen popping up.

1) I did inform Ramana about the upcoming patch (ya gotta admire his
   keenness).

2) Is there any reason that we cannot rename the xferstat/xferlog for
   the next release?
  
3) Why not install the documentation in /usr/doc and add links to
   them in /var/httpd/... (or vice versa)?

4) I don't mind /usr/... as the install directory.  Although, I can see
   one good reason why a newbie would like /usr/local/... :

       matt@hudson:~/src[58]% ls /usr/bin |wc -l
          1006
       matt@hudson:~/src[59]% ls /usr/local/bin |wc -l
            55

5) I believe that Ramana did keep faxaddmodem and faxsetup in the package.

 
> I have no problem sticking to the spelling. The source code on ftp.sgi.com
> says hylafax-v4.0pl1.tar.gz. Is it possible for you to change its
> name, because I have to refer to the original URL in RPM spec file.

My intention was to let Ramana's RPM become the official version.  I
will still supply a tarball for those that aren't configuratively
challenged.  My RPM wasn't anything more than a tarball with package
tracking.  I had no interest in making it anything more complex so I
welcome Ramana's efforts.


>>     'faxsetup'. This is because the rpm doesn't have all the files.  Also,
>>                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> I meant the old rpm that was built by Matthew Rice didn't have all the
> files. That was also one of the reasons I decided to build a new RPM.

Seeing as the RPM is an exact (or should be) reflection of the tar'ed
distribution I would like to know what is missing.  I intentionally
left out items from other packages (tiff utils, afm files, gawk, etc).
Instead, I added references to these items in the linux specific README.

Regards,
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Matthew Rice                             e-mail: matthew.rice@ftlsol.com