[LAD] Any package builders here?

Ralf Mardorf ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net
Wed Jun 1 15:37:58 UTC 2011


On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 14:40 +0200, Robin Gareus wrote:
> On 06/01/2011 11:50 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > Hi :)
> > 
> > could you please add a dependency to audio/MIDI app packages for your
> > distros, that will set up real-time usage?
> > 
> [..incorrect code snippet..]
> 
> On Debian, both jack1 and jack2 packages do already include that.
> 
> ----/etc/security/limits.d/audio.conf----
> # Provided by the jackd package.
> #
> # Changes to this file will be preserved.
> #
> # If you want to enable/disable realtime permissions, run
> #
> #    dpkg-reconfigure -p high jackd
> 
> @audio   -  rtprio     95
> @audio   -  memlock    unlimited
> #@audio   -  nice      -19
> -------------------8<---------------------
> 
> Maybe it's time to notify the debian-mm-team to remove the 'nice' line
> instead of commenting it out.  OTOH it shows that they are aware that
> it's not strictly needed but may come in handy.
> 
> 
> > I can't see any reason not do add such a dependency. Or is there a
> > good reason not to do?
> 
> I suppose it's simply pragmatic.
> Pulling this config out into a dedicated package might be a good idea.
> However I don't think there's any real-world use-case:
> 
> How many audio apps support 'rtprio' directly (without JACK)?  ..and how
> many pro-audio users do use this software but do not have JACK
> installed. I bet the number is zero.
> 
> robin

Hi Robin :)

somebody on the Debian users list send this to me and he seems to use
Jack by a package ;).

-- Ralf





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