7 Oct
2010
7 Oct
'10
4:34 p.m.
On 6 October 2010 23:52, Robin Gareus <robin(a)gareus.org> wrote:
That's something I never looked into. I hear a similar thing can be
done in Gentoo...
On 10/07/10 00:14, James Morris wrote:
Ah yes, well, um, I have been since around February this year...
forgot to mention it.
Hi Will,
Hi James,
I'm not Will, but also curious.
Just curious, do you build all your audio stuff
(from the kernel
through to ardour) from source?
I used to do that using debian to provide the base system, and X, and
to provide the dependencies (where the packages were recent enough)
required to build all my favourite audio software.
Why not use gentoo, then? Compiling a customized (real-time patched) kernel
makes sense, but
ardour and friends are available from Debian.
But how up to date are they, I like to get the latest tarballs (and
sometimes SVN) as soon as I notice them.
There has been a few times in the past when after performing an update
(I always use aptitude - I press u for update and the + on updated
packages section to mark them for install, and then g to download and
install).
I'm just
wondering if it's getting any easier these days, ie, is there
still much work to do, and is updating still a nightmare? (I used to
sometimes find I was better off doing a new install).
Nightmare? quite the opposite. I've migrated the same Debian system over
4 laptops in the last ~7 years without re-installing. If you roll Debian
packages for custom compiled software (or use backports) it's a piece of
cake. With apt-pinning it's possible to run a mixed
system
stable/testing/unstable and aptitude's dependency resolver just rocks.
I only use 'stable' for servers though and stick to "A constantly usable
testing distribution for Debian" ( http://lwn.net/Articles/406301/ ) for
A/V Desk/Mac/Lap-tops.
I have never heard of apt-pinning before, it looks a bit dangerous
http://jaqque.sbih.org/kplug/apt-pinning.html
Cheers,
James.
2c,
robin
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Cheers,
James
On 6 October 2010 17:05, Folderol <folderol(a)ukfsn.org> wrote:
> Just updated my debian squeeze based DAW and noticed audacity was
> amongst the updates. This once more works with jack - it hadn't for the
> last two or three updates.
>
> --
> Will J Godfrey
> http://www.musically.me.uk
> Say you have a poem and I have a tune.
> Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song.
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