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From: | Marcus Müller |
Subject: | Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Install GNU Radio Live CD to Hard Disk |
Date: | Thu, 7 Sep 2017 20:16:01 +0200 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.2.1 |
Hi Murray, ha, that's a very valid use case. I plan to talk to the others about packaging anyway (I know that at least Maitland, the debian packager, will be there) at GRCon, about providing nightly packages and such. Personally, I'm still struggling a bit with Fedora's integrated tools that should make it easy to rebuild packages whenever someone pushes a change to the master branch of GNU Radio, but if we can sort that out, you could install a GNU Radio as recent as `git pull` would give you, without any risk of breaking anything else, because the packages would act exactly like the Fedora-own gnuradio package, only more recent. That would also, for everyone who's not actively developing GNU Radio's core, solve a lot of the complications that people use PyBOMBS for. There's a whole lot of interesting questions that arise from that – on a project level. For example, while it feels kind of like an easy decision to make to offer a nightly gnuradio package if we can, what about popular "infrastructure" OOTs like, for example, gr-osmosdr? That is actually so popular that fedora packages themselves, and it would only feel logical to offer it in a version that works with that nightly GNU Radio, too. But then we're deep into "ok, now we're becoming a software distributor" land, because, what's so different about gr-osmosdr that we shouldn't also be packaging gr-paint, which, without doubt, is invaluable for any conference with people selling hardware that displays waterfall plots? Why I mention that is the following:Basically, as soon as you have a distro-compatible repo of packages, all major distros make it easy to directly install that; many also make it easy build an installer which installs the distro, enables that repo, and also installs these packages. With the liveDVD as we have it now, it's not that easy, because none of the SDR-related software is installed from an Ubuntu package repository, but actually built from source and installed "into the live system". That has a lot of advantages – being able to be bleeding edge, without becoming the maintainer for all the OOTs, for example – but easy conversion to an installed system is not possible at this point. Best regards, Marcus On 09/07/2017 04:09 PM, Murray Thomson
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