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galileo open source monitoring
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ubxtool name used by gpsd #129

Open bzed opened 3 years ago

bzed commented 3 years ago

Hi,

the gpsd project is using the name 'ubxtool' since 2018. This will stop people from packaging galmon for Debian/Ubuntu - please rename your ubxtool.

Thanks, Bernd

mahtin commented 6 months ago

While the name of the executable is the same, the actual binary is installed in /usr/local/ubxtool/ubxtool for the galmon project. This folder is not in the $PATH path and is only called as daemon from startup scripts. Only for initial debug reasons would you run this command from the shell prompt and while the name is the same, no user would confuse them as galmon's tool needs to be started via the full path name.

Additionally, the gpsd project installs it (very useful) ubxtool at /usr/bin/ubxtool which makes it the default someone would use when typing at the shell prompt.

While it is unfortunate that the code ended up with the same name - these things happen. I've had both on my systems for a long time and all has been a-ok.

Hope that's an ok explanation and you can close the issue now.