Re: flexfax: HylaFAX and RPM's

[Dave Parker <uw!dlparker@uunet.uu.net>]

Nico Garcia wrote:
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>On Mon, 25 May 1998, Dave Parker wrote:
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>> Nico Garcia wrote:
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>> >On Mon, 25 May 1998, Dave Parker wrote:
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>> >> I haven't been following this thread very closely because I'm running
>> >> HylaFAX
>> >> 4.0pl2 built from the sources on COL 1.2 with no problems, but how, other
>> >> than the lib issues, does 4.0.2-9 differ from 4.0pl2??
>> >
>> >Ghostscript location and font locations, "config.site", initialization
>> >script, and who knows what else without installing.
>> 
>> You mean that the rpm uses the default linux locations for gs and the
>> fonts?  It wasn't THAT tough to build everything from the source
>> distributions!!
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>I'm not sure which HylaFAX RPM's had it correctly set: the default
>RedHat Linux for ghostscript fonts, etc., was not included in the
>original HylaFAX configuration script. It therefore needed tweaking to
>compile, either a symbolic link added or a modified config.site or
>modified "configure" script.
>
>Similarly, the "etc/hylafax.sh" script in the source used locations of
>the script inconsistent with RedHat 5.0 and needed tweaking to install
>as "hylafax" in /etc/rc.d/init.d/.
>
>The RedHat 5.1 release is also coming out Real Soon Now. I am
>frightened of the implementation of "linuxconf". That broken piece of
>GUI !@#$ really, really screwed up my attempt to set up Linux
>as a gateway machine from home to my ISP.
>
>But we should perhaps save efforts to set up an RPM for *THAT*.

Hmmm..  I think I'll do a clean install of 5.1 on a virgin machine and try
to get HylaFAX built on that and see what happens.  It took me a few tries
before I finally got it right on COL 1.2, but all it took was a fairly
thorough reading of the docs and the humility to assume that the writer
knew what he/she was talking about.  I guess those two things (reading AND
trusting the docs) are not as common as you might think.
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Dave Parker/DLP, Inc     dlparker@dlpinc00.com