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Fred Gleason announced rivendell 1.2.0 on thursday. The debian build ran this weekend. So Debian and ubuntu packages for Rivendell 1.2.0 are now available on debian.tryphon.org.

I should try to make a post which doesn’t start by Rivendell … maybe the next time

Ubuntu hardy :

As there are many ubuntu hardy users, I’ve added this platform to the debian build. gpio, hpklinux and rivendell binary packages can be easily installed by adding this source :

deb http://debian.tryphon.org hardy main contrib

Ubuntu packages should be improved in a “near future” to be more compliant to the distribution policies.

Pre-compiled modules packages

With gpio-source and hpklinux-source packages, you can create the modules for your kernel. It creates sometimes few surprises according to the kernel versions.

I added to the build debian process the compilation of the gpio and hpklinux modules. According to the selected distribution (stable, … or hardy, intrepid), you will find modules for 2.6.18, 2.6.24, 2.6.26 or 2.6.27, 686, amd64 or rt kernels.

It makes life easier for everybody : user installations and developer tests. module-assistant is great tool, but pre-compiled modules are sometimes useful.

For example, hpklinux doesn’t compile with intrepid 2.6.27 kernel. A patch is pending

As previously announced, we’ll try to provide binary packages for ubuntu. Here is a first release.

You can install rivendell, hpklinux and gpio packages by adding the tryphon repository in your sources.list :

deb http://debian.tryphon.org intrepid main contrib

Known limitations :

• pam_rd is disabled to workaround a pending linking problem with the ubuntu libtool 2.2.4
• I’m not very sure these packages respect all ubuntu policies : main or universe section ? ubuntu suffix to version ? some advice is welcome

Update : the source distribution was wrong in the first post (intreprrrrid). Thanks Raps for having seen it.

The new build process leads to several news about rivendell debian packages :

• Debian binary packages
• Ubuntu intrepid packages
• Debian / ubuntu packages for rivendell 1.1.1

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