On Wednesday 19 October 2016 08:38:29 Darac Marjal wrote: > On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 08:01:59AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > >On Wednesday 19 October 2016 05:14:46 Darac Marjal wrote: > >> On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 05:09:05AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > >> >On Wednesday 19 October 2016 00:33:29 Peter Ludikovsky wrote: > >> >> When you visit the URL it's fetching there's a notice that the > >> >> service is no longer available: > >> >> "In Accordance with NWS Service Change Notice 16-16 this service > >> >> has been discontinued." > >> >> > >> >> Regards, > >> >> /peter > >> > > >> >And replaced by what? > >> > > >> >I did find that quoted phrase in my searching, but not that Change > >> > Notice 16-16. itself. > >> > >> Really? I searched for "NWS Service Change Notice 16-16" (no > >> quotes) and this > >> www.nws.noaa.gov/om/notification/scn16-16wngccb.htm was the first > >> result. It states that weather.gov now supplies all the appropriate > >> information, so weather.noaa.gov is no longer needed. > > > >I khexedited the deamon, found that address string and changed it to > >http://www.weather.gov. but on a restart, that gives a 404 error > > about once a minute. I'll go recheck that weather.gov site & see if > > I can get any schmardter. > > There was much ballyhoo a while ago about Debian distributing the > "preferred modification source" (or words to that effect). The > argument was, IIRC, to do with "minified" javascript files; that is, > javascript files which have had all unnecessary whitespace removed so > that they download a little quicker in the browser. It was argued that > no-one in their right mind would try to actually work with the > minified javascript, and that Debian should be distributing the > original file and converting it to a minified version at "compile > time". > > The same goes for just about all Debian packages: what's in the *.deb > is not necessarily the "preferred modification source". In the case of > an executable program, there will be C (or C++ or Perl or Python or > Ada or ...) source code which is compiled to produce that executable. > Source code which Debian uses. Source code which Debian DISTRIBUTES > freely. Source code which you can download yourself, modify yourself, > compile yourself. > > What I'm trying to say is: don't go modifying the executable! Edit the > source code and recompile it! > > And if you want to know what changes to make, gkrellweather already > has a bug against it (#863347 https://bugs.debian.org/836347) which > includes a patch fixing the problem.
Excellent, but will it get to the repo's? And I'd assume the standalone "metar" app will need the same fixing? > >I found the data for the local, actually under the correct label, but > > its going to be fun editing that path into that binary. I would > > assume the KCKB.TXT isn't needed because thats a different, editable > > entry in the config > > > >http://tgftp.nws.noaa.gov/data/observations/metar/stations/KCKB.TXT > > > >Editing that into the .so apparently exceeds the string length even > > if I was over-writing $00's to do it, I now get a segfault and it > > exits. The deamon however does start ok. I'll reinstall, so at > > least the rest of gkrellm works. > > > >> >But using that phrase, I did find it, and the request for comments > >> > that was published a few months before, along with some contact > >> > names, one of which has now been sent a query about its > >> > replacement. > >> > > >> >Thanks Peter. > >> > > >> >> Am 19.10.2016 um 05:32 schrieb Gene Heskett: > >> >> > METAR is a std data format that has been used for many years. > >> >> > I've been using a gkrellm, with its plugin gk-weather for > >> >> > about a decade, but I've just become aware that the last time > >> >> > I got valid METAR data from the airport about 20 miles > >> >> > northeast of me was on July 28th. > >> >> > > >> >> > So as a double-chk, I installed the metar program from the > >> >> > wheezy repo. It reports: > >> >> > > >> >> > gene@sheldon:~$ metar -v KCKB > >> >> > Retrieving URL > >> >> > http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/data/observations/metar/stations/K > >> >> >CKB .TX T METAR pattern not found in NOAA data. > >> >> > > >> >> > So I switched to a slightly closer airport in Buchannon wv, > >> >> > and get the same response. > >> >> > > >> >> > gene@sheldon:~$ metar -v KW22 > >> >> > Retrieving URL > >> >> > http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/data/observations/metar/stations/K > >> >> >W22 .TX T METAR pattern not found in NOAA data. > >> >> > > >> >> > Poking around on the NOAA.gov main site, there is no mention > >> >> > of it being discontinued that is easily searched for. > >> >> > > >> >> > Anybody have a light to shine on this? > >> >> > > >> >> > Thanks everybody. > >> >> > > >> >> > Cheers, Gene Heskett > >> > > >> >Cheers, Gene Heskett > >> >-- > >> >"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > >> > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > >> >-Ed Howdershelt (Author) > >> >Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> > > > >Cheers, Gene Heskett > >-- > >"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > >-Ed Howdershelt (Author) > >Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
