On Sun, 10 Dec 2017 12:52:05 -0300, Fede wrote: >I used to try to keep my software as stable as possible by avoiding >upgrades for as long as possible, but it ended up being troublesome, >because then you have to compile your own libraries, and things tend >to go out of hand when you want to receive bug fixes from later >versions. > >My question is: How do you people keep an updated system stable? Do >you wipe your drive clean and start over every ubuntu LTS release? > >If you are not on a debian based distro, how do you handle the lack of >a kxstudio repo? Hi, in my experiences Arch Linux is the better distro for easily maintaining audio packages. I've got both installed, Ubuntu (a tailored install based on the server image) as well as Arch Linux [1]. I package a lot of software myself, but I'm carefully with upgrading software during a production, IOW I usually keep up with upstream, but not necessarily install already build software [2]. FWIW David Runge became an Arch Linux TU in October and already started to maintain ill-kept audio packages provided by official Arch Linux repositories. At the moment his packages are in the testing repo, unfortunately I don't have time to help testing at the moment. Apart from the official repository Arch provides the Arch User Repository with lots of audio software and at least the IMO important software is well maintained. Arch now has it's own audio mailing list again, so others and I could help you to build packages. However, Arch Linux is not a user-friendly distro, you need some Linux knowledge to maintain an Arch Linux install. There is no need for a third party repository as there is for Ubuntu, since the distros have different policies. You e.g. can't get linuxsampler by an official Ubuntu repository, regarding it's invalid license. This isn't an issue for Arch Linux [3]. Linuxsampler is provided by an official Arch repository. Regards, Ralf [1] [root@archlinux rocketmouse]# cat /etc/os-release NAME="Arch Linux" PRETTY_NAME="Arch Linux" ID=arch ID_LIKE=archlinux ANSI_COLOR="0;36" HOME_URL="https://www.archlinux.org/"; SUPPORT_URL="https://bbs.archlinux.org/"; BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.archlinux.org/"; [root@archlinux rocketmouse]# systemd-nspawn -qD /mnt/moonstudio lsb_release -a LSB Version: core-9.20160110ubuntu0.2-amd64:core-9.20160110ubuntu0.2-noarch:security-9.20160110ubuntu0.2-amd64:security-9.20160110ubuntu0.2-noarch Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS Release: 16.04 Codename: xenial [2] [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ uname -rm 4.13.13-rt5-1-rt x86_64 [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ pacman -Q ardour5 jack2 x42-plugins ardour5 5.8-1 jack2 1.9.10.r293.gc44a220f-1 x42-plugins 20161230-1 [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ ls -hAl /var/cache/aur/ | grep '\-rw' -rw-r--r-- 1 rocketmouse rocketmouse 9.1M Sep 16 16:45 ardour-5.12-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz -rw-r--r-- 1 rocketmouse rocketmouse 932K May 27 2017 x42-plugins-20170428-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz [3] [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ pacman -Qi linuxsampler | grep License Licenses : GPL custom:exception _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
