Re: [proaudio] jack-audio-connection-kit

[Karl Lindén <spray.sucks@xxxxxxxxx>]

Alright. As long as nasty conflicts are avoided and it's not too much
trouble switching between them I'm fine.

Integrating with the portage tree is not necessarily a big problem. We
did a similar thing with lash and ladish. If we decide to use virtuals
we could split media-sound/jack-audio-connection-kit into
media-sound/jack1 and media-sound/jack2, let
media-sound/jack-audio-connection-kit be a transitional meta-virtual
depending on at least one of them so that no ebuilds portage are
broken and add the real virtual virtual/jack or
virtual/jack-audio-connection-kit depending on at least one of jack1
or jack2. I would like the short form virtual/jack.

Regards,
Karl

2013/3/24 Gavin Pryke <gavinlee303@xxxxxxxxx>:
> On Saturday 23 March 2013 18:36:37 Karl Lindén wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> How would you do that? They install alot of files in the same paths
>> which would result in a massive conflict. As far as I know such thing
>> can only be done "smoothly" with heavy patching. I'm also a little
>> concerned about the dbus service and how dbus can know which jack to
>> be used, but I'm not at all an expert on dbus. I'm not sure if the
>> linking might be a problem, but can the linker know what jack version
>> to link against? Is this and other issues aswell going to be solved by
>> symlinking, maybe? Then an eselect could be nice.
>>
>> Is there a problem only running one jack version? Is there some
>> package requiring only one version and another requiring the other?
>>
>> I'm not (as far as I know) in charge of the SVN write access, so if
>> you don't want to wait you can always supply a patch.
>>
>> Kind regards,
>> Karl
>>
>> 2013/3/23 Manuel Bärenz <manuel@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> > Hi everyone,
>> >
>> > I think it would be best to have jack-audio-connection-kit versions
>> > 0.121.3 and 1.9.9.5 in different slots to install them parallely and
>> > switch quickly between them without reemerging. If you want to give me
>> > SVN write access, I can quickly do that myself.
>> >
>> > Best, Manuel
>
> I was chatting a bit about this with Nedko Arnaudov some time ago and he
> suggested a jack virtual package and pointed me to a link on the jack trac
> wiki but I think that link is down right now. We should be able to select
> these different versions of jack somehow without ugly masking. The situation
> right now with jack1 and jack2 in one package is not great but it works
> because we don't have to change any dependencies of other packages. I did some
> work on a local overlay with a jack virtual but the problem is all the
> dependencies in portage and the overlay, I was not sure how to proceed with
> this and my questions on irc in gentoo-media went unanswered, maybe I should
> have filed a bug instead.
>
> Kind regards
> Gavin
>
>