[arch-general] Bug reports for out of date packages?

[Allan McRae]

hollunder at gmx.at wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Apr 2009 12:45:46 -0400
> Ryan Sims <rwsims at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> 2009/4/9 Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org>:
>>     
>>> hollunder at gmx.at wrote:
>>>       
>>>> jack-audio-connection-kit, qjackctl and ardour, all in
>>>> extra, have been out of date...  <snip>
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> So, does anyone have working updated PKGBUILDs for these that I can
>>> push to [extra]?
>>>
>>> Allan
>>>       
>> This one for ardour2 from AUR works fine on my machine:
>>
>> # Maintainer: Philipp Ãœberbacher <hollunder at gmx dot at>
>>
>> pkgname=ardour-lv2
>> pkgver=2.8
>> pkgrel=3
>> pkgdesc="Ardour is a digital audio workstation."
>> arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
>> url="http://ardour.org/"
>> license=('GPL')
>> depends=('rubberband' 'liblrdf' 'libgnomecanvas' 'liblo' 'libusb'
>> 'aubio' 'slv2')
>> makedepends=('boost' 'ladspa' 'scons' 'gettext' 'libtool' 'pkgconfig')
>> options=('!libtool')
>> conflicts=('ardour' 'ardour2')
>> provides=('ardour' 'ardour2')
>> source=("http://releases.ardour.org/ardour-$pkgver.tar.bz2")
>> md5sums=('24bd768dbe08f1f2724dc97704ee0518')
>> build() {
>> 	cd ${startdir}/src/ardour-${pkgver} || return 1
>> 	scons	PREFIX="/usr" \
>> 			FREESOUND=1 \
>>         	DESTDIR="${pkgdir}" || return 1
>> 	scons	PREFIX="/usr" \
>> 		DESTDIR="${pkgdir}" \
>> 		install || return 1
>> }
>>     
>
> Note that some of the dependencies are missing in [ extra ].
> - Rubberband is for time stretching/pitch shifting and used in an
> increasing number of apps.
> - LV2 is the successor of LADSPA.
>
> Ardour builts with both by default as you can guess from the scons line.
> I don't know off the top of my head if it's possible to build without
> rubberband.
>
> Another question is the recent support of VST without Steinberg
> headers, which would allow distribution of VST enabled binaries (but
> IANAL).
> This would add wine as dependency AFAIK, I haven't used this myself but
> I'm sure there are plenty of people at #archaudio that have.
>
> Jack is even more important than ardour, the following PKGBUILD should
> be fine, except that I'm not sure about --enable-optimize for binary
> packages. The PKGBUILD in extra builds it with POSIX-SHM support which
> is not recommended by jacks main author.
>
> # Contributor: Philipp Überbacher <hollunder at gmx dot at>
>
> pkgname=jack-audio-connection-kit
> pkgver=0.116.2
> pkgrel=1
> pkgdesc="A low-latency audio server"
> arch=(i686 x86_64)
> license=(GPL2 LGPL2)
> depends=('libsamplerate' 'readline')
> makedepends=('doxygen')
> provides=('jack-audio-connection-kit')
> conflicts=('jack-audio-connection-kit')
> url="http://jackaudio.org/"
> options=('!libtool')
> source=(http://jackaudio.org/downloads/${pkgname}-${pkgver}.tar.gz)
> md5sums=('9c0ae9880e9b6e081f1a238fe6a28bd5')
> build() {
>   cd "${startdir}/src/${pkgname}-${pkgver}"
>   ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-optimize || return 1
>   make || return 1
>   make DESTDIR=${startdir}/pkg install || return 1
> }
>  
>
>
> Qjackctl is lest important of the bunch, here's simple the updated
> PKGBUILD from [extra]:
>
> # Contributor: Tobias Kieslich <tobias at justdreams.de>
>
> pkgname=qjackctl
> pkgver=0.3.4
> pkgrel=1
> pkgdesc="a qt based frontend to the jack server
> (jack-audio-connection-kit)" arch=(i686 x86_64)
> license=('GPL2')
> depends=('jack-audio-connection-kit' 'qt')
> # options=('!libtool')
> install=${pkgname}.install
> url="http://qjackctl.sourceforge.net/"
> source=(http://downloads.sourceforge.net/${pkgname}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}.tar.gz)
> md5sums=('65736e83650468256ba22aa5d35fd0cb')
>
> build() {
>   cd ${startdir}/src/${pkgname}-${pkgver}
>   ./configure --prefix=/usr
>   make || return 1
>   make prefix=${pkgdir}/usr install
> }
>
>
>
> I have no illusions about the need to build from source, but these are
> pretty basic and common tools and it's nice to have them reasonably
> up-to-date in the repos.
> If you have questions just mail or visit #archaudio
>   

I have put updated version of jack-audio-connection-kit and qjackctl in 
[testing].  Please test them out.    Ardour will hopefully follow soon.

Allan