PalmOS PDA and Fedora 4 - interim solution

[Gilboa Davara]

AFAICS pilot-link and jpilot work just fine with the RPMs in
fc4-update-testing.
No need to use the -devel SRPMs.
gnome-pilot is still broken.

Gilboa

On Fri, 2005-09-09 at 10:14 -0700, Florin Andrei wrote:

> Check out this bug report:
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=167603
> 
> Essentially, what it says is, you will be able to sync up your Palm PDA
> to jpilot (and possibly other PalmOS sync applications) on Fedora 4 if
> you use the following software versions:
> 
> pilot-link-0.12.0-0.pre4.5
> pilot-link-devel-0.12.0-0.pre4.5
> jpilot-0.99.8-0.pre10.2
> 
> All of them are currently (2005/09/09) in the Development section:
> 
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/
> 
> What I did was to download the pilot-link src.rpm, rebuild it on my
> system, install the results, download the jpilot src.rpm, rebuild and
> install, and it worked!
> I believe that simply downloading the i386 binary packages and
> installing them directly will work too, but I didn't verify that.
> 
> You may still have to create some /dev/ttyUSB* files, then point
> jpilot to ttyUSB1, but I'll leave that as an exercise.
> It would be nice if the ttyUSB* stuff could be automated.
> 
> -- 
> Florin Andrei
> 
> http://florin.myip.org/


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