flexfax: Re: HylaFAX rpm notes

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

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On Tue, 28 Jul 1998, Mr. Arlington Hewes wrote:

[ about various RPM source comments I made ]

>   NKG> 3.) The "ghostscript" patch I wrote is apparently still needed to find
>   NKG> where the ghostscript fonts normally live under RedHat. Additionally, a
>   NKG> location for the AFM is not set (IMHO) correctly.  (See config.linux in
>   NKG> my patch files).
> 
> Sorry, no dice. gs fonts are EXACTLY where they are supposed to be when the 
> explicit ghostscript-5.10 dependency is satisfied. We've thrashed this issue 
> to death, the dependency will be in there. I know you don't like it ;-)

And we still disagree. For people new to this, I consider it an unnecessary
burden to force users to download the contributed ghostscript 5.10 fonts
and binaries when the ghostscript 3.33 with the RedHat distribution is
quite satisfactory. Considering that this download is happening for people
who may not have the modem working yet, and we see that the several megs
of extra installation may be a bit of a burden.

You also put the AFM files in their own subdirectory. Cool.

>   NKG> 5.) The default location for egetty and vgetty under RedHat is off.
>   NKG> (See config.linux in my patch files).
> 
> ?? faxsetup looks for them and warns not there. Is this not adequate?

When they are installed under RedHat Linux, they go in a different
location than the one listed.  If someone installs them from source or
RPM, faxsetup may not find them, and the incorrect location may
confuse people about where to go looking for them in other RPM's.

>   NKG> 6.) I'm delighted that you included the fixhtml patch that I proposed.
>   NKG> Unfortunately, this is not sufficient to make the web documentation
>   NKG> work completely for other OS's. Many of the URL's actually contain the
>   NKG> section numbers, which are just plain wrong for Linux. Therefore, it is
>   NKG> easiest to simply delete these numbers. There is only one place where
>   NKG> their lack causes confusion, where the HylaFAX man page is referred
>   NKG> to in two different manual sections, and I think that's a reasonable
>   NKG> sacrifice for accessibility. (See my manpage patch).
> 
> You lost me.

A bunch of the HTML manpage references are like this:

	<A HREF="/cgi-bin/manpage?4+textfmt">textfmt(4)</A>

Since many of the HylaFAX man pages go in different sections than
those specified under the IRIX where this stuff got written, the
section numbers are incorrect and make the CGI fail to find the man
page. The patch I wrote just pulls out all the section numbers, rather
than trying to cleverly keep track and figure out what they all should
be (which would be a *lot* of work). This only causes a problem for
two man pages with the same name referred to in different sections, a
"hylafax" man page in section 1 and section 5 under SunOS, and I'm not
sure which sections under Linux, and I don't consider this one a big
losss.

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

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