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Like promised, this post doesn’t start with rivendell

The first objective was testing the module source packages provided with Rivendell. Between etch and intrepid, these modules can be built on several kernel versions (from 2.6.18 to 2.6.27) and waiting errors on the rivendell user mailing-list doesn”t seem a good solution

So, I looked for a way to execute module assistant into pbuilder. pbuilder has a command “execute” which takes a script, copy and execute it into the chroot. execute-module-assistant was borned.

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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.

After a long build this night, binary packages for Rivendell 1.1.1 have been uploaded this morning.

They are available on the debian.tryphon.org repository for debian sarge/testing/unstable i386 and amd64.

Use these packages with the same caution as previously explained.

Under Ubuntu, the rivendell build is broken for the moment (because a libspam linking problem). hpklinux packages are available.

Update : a screenshot of rdairplay 1.1.1 (under gnome)

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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Rivendell 1.1.0 has been available for several weeks, but the debian package weren’t up to date yet. After a small refactoring on my build scripts, a first (and very experimental) release of the debian packages is now available in the tryphon debian repository.

For now packages have been built for etch/stable i386 and amd64 and are available in the experimental section :

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

Test with caution : I have not tested these packages yet. It’s just a first build. Feedbacks are welcome (on irc, on rivendell mailing-list or on french rivendell mailing-list).

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Frederick Gleason en a fait l’annonce officielle hier. La version 1.0.1 est la première version “complète” de Rivendell.

Cette annonce ne marque pas réellement le début de l’utilisation de Rivendell en production. Puisque depuis 2004, Rivendell est bel et bien utilisable. Pour notre part, Rivendell a sorti son premier son en août 2004. Et notre première utilisation de Rivendell en conditions réelles (24h/24 pendant pendant 10 jours) date de septembre 2004.

Néanmoins, c’est une étape importante dans la vie de ce logiciel et pour la large communauté qui participe à son développement.

L’annonce de Frederick était la suivante :
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