[Xastir] Re: New devel snapshot, SuSE RPM's, LSB package (Curt, WE7U)

[Greg Eigsti]

> Users should
> NOT do that because it'll remove their customizations in the
> /opt/Xastir/share directory (maps, sound files, FCC/RAC databases,
> etc).

Which brings up a question that I have ;)

The only option that I have seen for looking up callsigns in Xastir is via a
downloaded database file.  For me this is undesirable - more flotsam on the
disk and the potential for out of date data (unless I am good about updating
the database - meh).

Is there an option to grab callsign lookup data off of teh intarwebs as it
is needed (e.g. I do a lookup on WE7U and Xastir retrieves the data
real-time off of qrz)?

Real time callsign lookups seem "natural" to me and I wondered if I am
missing something or if there was a conscious decision not to do this?

Thanks!
Greg
KD7UBJ


On 1/16/07 6:59 AM, "Curt, WE7U" <archer at eskimo.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 16 Jan 2007, Curt, WE7U wrote:
> 
>>> Is it ok to just install new versions straight over the old ones ?
>> 
>> Yes.
> 
> Except for the fact that I got some extra executables into the
> .tar.bz2 file lately.  Oops.
> 
> Delete all the files in /opt/Xastir/bin before overlaying the
> latest-latest on top of it.  Or just delete filenames like
> "xastir-94.4" and "xastir-95.0" and call it good.  The only files
> that should be in that directly currently are:
> 
>     callpass
>     gm
>     xastir
>     xastir-udp_client
> 
> I've fixed up my build script so that it blows away the /opt/Xastir
> directory each time so this shouldn't happen again.  Users should
> NOT do that because it'll remove their customizations in the
> /opt/Xastir/share directory (maps, sound files, FCC/RAC databases,
> etc).
> 
> I also tweaked the script to add a date onto the end of the uploaded
> filename.
> 
> --
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