Hello. The ebuild of spandsp and asterisk-app_rtxfax in portage are rather old. Is it possible to update them? regards t. Reproducible: Always
I do not use them. But feel free to provide some updated ebuilds and I might add them to portage :) Thanks
What do you use instead of this ebuild to recieve fax? Just curious.
well, I am not in the need to receive fax. No one has recently asked me to. - They just send emails. But probably if you need to receive faxes this is the best solution.
Okay. To build a current spandsp ebuild should be possible. But the problem is the app_rtxfax ebuild. One can download the current files from: http://soft-switch.org/downloads/snapshots/spandsp/test-apps-asterisk-1.2/ But just renaming the app_rtxfax ebuild leads to this error. http://forums.digium.com/viewtopic.php?p=49179&sid=7c009ed825aa3b7c09ee4c2efbaa8a57 How do we overwrite plc.h within an ebuild? Am i the only one who is interested in this? regards t.
So what do you want with this? A production-level spandsp for faxing? That's not quite there yet. Spandsp for asterisk-1.4? Doesn't belong here either, 1.4 is in the voip overlay so this would belong there (specially since asterisk-1.2 and 1.4 changed API).
I have latest 0.3 spandsp + fixes for rtxfax in my local overlay and it's working perfectly. But it depends on some eclases only available in voip-overlay. hmmm.... I try to solve this somehow.
This would be really nice Stefan.
> What do you use instead of this ebuild to recieve fax? Just curious. Thomas, you have a german email address, so I guess you're located in Germany? Do you have ISDN and a CAPI capable ISDN-card with T.30 support (i.e. Fritz!Card)? If so, just use hylafax + capi4hylafax and for Asterisk use chan_capi for PSTN connectivity. The beauty of CAPI is, that an unlimited number of applications can use the ISDN card concurrently. I also use capi4hylafax/hylafax for faxing and chan_capi for Asterisk. Works great!
I have a 8port ISDN Card from Beronet and i'm using chan_misdn. I don't know if it's possible to use hylafax with this card. But i think it is. Anyway, any chance to get your overlay regarding app_rtxfax? best regards from Berlin
no news ? I can't compile net-misc/asterisk-app_rtxfax-0.0.2_pre25 anymore...
*** Bug 270014 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
It looks like net-misc/asterisk-app_rtxfax in the voip overaly makes the package compatible with spandsp-0.0.3. In addition, according to Chainsaw, asterisk-1.6 is used spandsp natively. These are two workarounds at the moment.
If someone wants to write a patch to let asterisk-app_rtxfax works with >=spandsp-0.0.3 it will be great and I will be happy to proxy it. By the way, you can probably use patch in the voip overlay.
With the patch I got it working with spandsp-0.0.3. But if I install spandsp-0.0.6, I got: In file included from /usr/include/asterisk/translate.h:33, from app_rxfax.c:34: /usr/include/asterisk/plc.h:129: error: conflicting types for 'plc_state_t' /usr/include/spandsp/plc.h:128: error: previous declaration of 'plc_state_t' was here /usr/include/asterisk/plc.h:142: error: conflicting types for 'plc_rx' /usr/include/spandsp/plc.h:142: error: previous declaration of 'plc_rx' was here /usr/include/asterisk/plc.h:150: error: conflicting types for 'plc_fillin' /usr/include/spandsp/plc.h:150: error: previous declaration of 'plc_fillin' was here /usr/include/asterisk/plc.h:156: error: conflicting types for 'plc_init' /usr/include/spandsp/plc.h:156: error: previous declaration of 'plc_init' was here We can't do anything, it looks like spandsp-0.0.6 and asterisk-1.2 are conflicting. This sounds bad because the package needs <=spandsp-0.0.3 (actually, didn't test with 0.0.{4,5}). Setting such dep is not recommanded and this package is old and outdated. What I recommand is to remove the package from the tree and use asterisk-1.6 which has a built-in spandsp support. Chrisophe, as you look to be the only one carrying about this package, can you live with it ?
Finally, the package is going to be removed in 30 days if no working solution is proposed by someone. Please use asterisk-1.6 if you need spandsp support.
Package removed.
