Re: flexfax: HylaFAX RPM

[Nico Garcia <raoul@cirl.meei.harvard.edu>]

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On Sun, 24 May 1998, Phil Watkinson wrote:

> The HylaFAX community does need a solid, reliable rpm package - it is so
> often the way people are introduced to the software in the first place. We
> have been well served by Matthew Rice and Ramana Juvvadi in the past and we
> need to carry that on with someone who runs and has an interest in HylaFAX.

Umm. It might actually be better to keep updated a source RPM rather
than an installation RPM. This would give people control over the
HylaFAX configuration files, and help assure that things get installed
right.

There are so *MANY* possible configurations for Linux, even RedHat,
that it might be better to keep it up-to-date as source code.

> I hope you can feel you can make the contribution.
> 
> Discussion *is* warranted; Ramana decided that in some aspects the rpm should
> 'plough its own furrow' and I think it would be a good idea to have a general
> agreement on some of the controversial matters.
> 
> My suggestion to start the ball rolling; could we have the patch level in the
> rpm filename - ie hylafax-4.0.2-9.i386.rpm ?

Second and third suggestions: mention the RedHat release, 

	hylafax-4.0.2-rh5-9.i386.rpm

And straighten out the ghostscript dependencies: RedHat only requires version
2.62 or better, not the 5.10 in the RPM's. In fact, the RPM's for RedHat
5.10 are broken: the font distribution is quite different from the
binary distribution, and the RPM's argue with each other.

The published RPM should be as clean as possible: I also suggest
that it use my HTML patches so local HTML documents are mostly corrected
for Linux use (the manpage suffix number issue for different OS's).

			Nico Garcia
			Senior Engineer, CIRL 
			Mass. Eye and Ear Infirmary
			raoul@cirl.meei.harvard.edu

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