Re: [LAU] jackd & debian problems

From: Ken Restivo <ken@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Thu Apr 19 2007 - 10:10:30 EEST

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On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 11:57:14AM -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> On 4/18/07, Josh Lawrence <hardbop200@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
> >there must be some way in debian to say, "don't worry about the jackd
> >dependency, I've already got that installed." or am I doomed to
> >compile everything from source now that I've compiled jack from
> >source? is it all or nothing?
> >
>
> Can't you just build a .deb of the new jackd?
>

This issue has me stuck right now too. I need jack 103 and also I want to try jackdmp again too.

The debian packages for jack 101 and jack 102 are really weird. Either they weren't done correctly, or my debian knowlege is not up-to-date with the latest hip and happenin' tools.

I have successfully built, backported, and/or upgraded packages for several audio apps for Etch (http://www.restivo.org/projects/debian/various-etch-audio-backports/). But jackd has not given me any success and tomorrow I think I'll have to focus on it and try to get it working. It's "in my critical path" since jack 102 and freebob 1.0.3 are inoperative on my Core 2 Duo.

If the version you want is already in testing or unstable but didn't make it into Etch, it's pretty simple. Just get the original source, diff file, an dsc file by going to http://pacakges.debian.org, then:
        dpkg-source -x $the_dsc_file
        cd $source_subdir
        debuild -uc -us

Updating packages to a version that isn't yet in debian (not even unstable), is really easy. I did this with freebob.
        wget $orignal_source_for_version_not_yet_in_debian
        apt-get source $old_package
        cd $source_subdir
        uupdate ../$orignal_source_for_version_not_yet_in_debian
        cd ../$new_source_dir (uupdate will tell you its name)
        debuild -uc -us
        
Alas, none of the above have worked for JACK. Whatever tool is being used complains about not being able to apply patches.

Someone already posted the dh_make tricks to add a package that isn't in debian at all. I find it's a little bit harder than that, but not much. I may try making a whole new package from scratch for JACK and jackdmp, and see how that goes.

        
- -ken
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