Summary: | gpsdrive should USE/DEPEND on gpsd | ||
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Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Steve Arnold <nerdboy> |
Component: | Current packages | Assignee: | Gentoo Science Related Packages <sci> |
Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
Severity: | enhancement | CC: | ghutzl, mobile+disabled, sascha-gentoo-bugzilla |
Priority: | High | ||
Version: | 2005.0 | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | All | ||
Whiteboard: | |||
Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
Bug Depends on: | |||
Bug Blocks: | 90848, 142710 | ||
Attachments: | incomplete nogpsd patch |
Description
Steve Arnold
2005-05-28 18:02:22 UTC
Created attachment 60047 [details, diff]
incomplete nogpsd patch
The docs claim gpsdrive supports the cuurent gpsd API, but the build options
don't seem to be there. I think it's an upstream bug, but also possible via
a patch...
Steve, since the mobile herd currently lacks a GPS maintainer (I'd love to maintain our GPS packages, but I lack the hardware) you're free to make the necessary changes yourself. Should you want to become a member of the mobile herd and take over maintaining our GPS packages, you will be most welcome... :) Since I'm an earth-science and geography geek, I added the new gpsd to the sci-geo herd (gpsdrive should probably go there to; feel free to move it if you want to). I have a ton of bugs to work right now, plus my own plans for mapserver, etc, but I'll get to this eventually (but don't let me stop you from fixing it yourself :) I'll be maintaining gpsd and other geographic and mapping ebuilds, but I'm already in too many herds to join another one. Thanks for the offer tho :) Feel free to ping me to discuss the organization of these applications; like I said, being into GIS makes me think GPS apps belong there, but I'm open to alternatives. gpsdrive mailing list told me that the newest cvs version gpsdrive-2.10pre3-cvs-20060907.tar.gz should actually fix that (gpsdrive's own) gpsd dependency and makes it possible to use the existing gpsd. I'm looking forward for a gpsdrive-2.20pre3.ebuild. This is now true for gpsdrive 2.10_pre and later. |