Package gpsd: Information
Source package: gpsd
Version: 2.37-alt1
Build time: Apr 11, 2008, 06:36 PM
Category: System/Servers
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License: BSD
Summary: Service daemon for mediating access to a GPS
Description:
gpsd is a service daemon that mediates access to a GPS sensor connected to the host computer by serial or USB interface, making its data on the location/course/velocity of the sensor available to be queried on TCP port 2947 of the host computer. With gpsd, multiple GPS client applications (such as navigational and wardriving software) can share access to a GPS without contention or loss of data. Also, gpsd responds to queries with a format that is substantially easier to parse than NMEA 0183. A client library is provided for applications. After installing this RPM, gpsd will automatically connect to USB GPSes when they are plugged in and requires no configuration. For serial GPSes, you will need to start gpsd by hand. Once connected, the daemon automatically discovers the correct baudrate, stop bits, and protocol. The daemon will be quiescent when there are no clients asking for location information, and copes gracefully when the GPS is unplugged and replugged.
List of rpms provided by this srpm:
gpsd (x86_64, i586)
gpsd-clients (x86_64, i586)
libgps (x86_64, i586)
libgps-devel (x86_64, i586)
gpsd (x86_64, i586)
gpsd-clients (x86_64, i586)
libgps (x86_64, i586)
libgps-devel (x86_64, i586)
Maintainer: Anton V. Boyarshinov
Last changed
April 11, 2008 Anton V. Boyarshinov 2.37-alt1
- first build for Sisyphus
Jan. 1, 2008 Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com> - 2.36
- Urgent fix to leap-day calculation affecting dates from today to 28 Feb on generic NMEA GPSes, Zodiacs, and SirFs emitting message 0x62. Integrated Garmin Simple Text Protocol driver from Peter Slansky. Minor fixes in error modeling and a better NaN guard stabilize the Trimble regression tests. Remove the wired-in NTP time offset from the NMEA driver, this could only have worked by accident and should be set in ntpd.conf. Integrated Ashtech driver from Chris Kuethe.
Dec. 10, 2007 Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com> - 2.35-1
- Navcom driver merged. Removed -d -f and -p options of gpsd; these have been undocumented for a while. Make gpsd play well with pkgconfig. Incorrect computation of VDOP when GPSes didn't supply it has been fixed. The xgps code has been revamped and now has a much nicer interface. Add -b (no-configuration) option as a sadly clumsy workaround for some problems with Bluetooth receivers. Added tests for Haicom-305N and Pharos 360; separated out the tests for the unstable Trimble drivers. 32-vs-64-bit problems in the regression tests have been solved.