On 6 October 2010 23:52, Robin Gareus <robin@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 10/07/10 00:14, James Morris wrote: >> 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? Ah yes, well, um, I have been since around February this year... forgot to mention it. > 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. That's something I never looked into. I hear a similar thing can be done in Gentoo... > 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 > >> Cheers, >> James >> >> >> >> On 6 October 2010 17:05, Folderol <folderol@xxxxxxxxx> 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. >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Linux-audio-user mailing list >>> Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >>> http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user >>> > -- _ : http://jwm-art.net/ -audio/image/text/code _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
