On 8 Sep 1999, Dag Brattli wrote:
> Peter Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > On 7 Sep 1999, Dag Brattli wrote:
> >
> > > Hiya,
> > >
> > > I've just put irda-utils-0.9.2 out for testing at:
> > >
> > > http://www.cs.uit.no/linux-irda/irda-utils/
> > >
> > > Lots of changes, but this is really just an attempt to get a release out
> > > before I start with the big changes. Hopefully things will compile a bit
> > > easier for you ;-)
> >
> > Dag, what has to be done to get this as a package in the Redhat distro,
> > they enable IrDA support in the kernel yet they don't include the util's
> > required to use it. Do you as the main developer have to submit an rpm, or
> > do they have to create their own or can any one submit a rpm for
> > inclusion, and if its ok they use it. I think this would be very useful
> > for the average user who doesn't want to have to compile up source and
> > just want it to work.
>
> The reason for my new release of the irda-utils was because the Mandrake
> distribution wanted to include it in their new release (6.1?). What we have
> to do is to make sure it's easy to make RPM's from it, which should be a lot
> easier with all the help I've got from Mandrake.
>
> PS. If Mandrake becomes IrDA ready, then I'll switch from RH ;-)
And if Mandrake was making RPMs of the utils, they would work with RedHat
seeing as Mandrake is a sub (super) set of Redhat anyway so we should
probally see how we can get it into redhat, as well as probally the likes
of Debian etc as well.
Regards
Peter
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