[arch-general] jack & qjackctl

[Philipp]

Excerpts from Allan McRae's message of 2010-04-07 03:06:50 +0200:
> On 07/04/10 10:21, Philipp wrote:
> > Excerpts from fons's message of 2010-04-07 00:46:09 +0200:
> >> It seems like Arch is currently offering Jack and qjackctl
> >> packages that are not compatible.
> >>
> >> The Jack authors changed one some command line options
> >> in 0.118. '-R' for realtime is no longer available as
> >> realtime is now the default, and the new '-r' means
> >> 'no realtime'.
> >>
> >> Qjackctl 0.3.6 is aware of this, but won't work well with
> >> Jack 0.116 which is still the one available from Arch.
> >> In other words, the update of qjackctl was probably a bit
> >> premature.
> >>
> >> Ciao,
> >
> > The real problem is that jack is still stuck at the rather old 0.116.
> > One reason might be those, IMHO in the meanwhile annoying scripts that
> > ship with the Arch jack package. It's tough to get them right it seems.
> > I would be all in favor of splitting them into a separate package and
> > install jack just the way it is supposed to. Much less hassle, less
> > confused users and as a bonus those scripts can be easily used with
> > other variants of jack.
> >
> > Either way, there's really no reason to still ship 0.116.2 when 0.118.0
> > was released in November, almost 5 months ago.
> 
> 
> jack 0.118 is in [testing].  Does anyone know the reason why it is there 
> and whether it can be moved?
> 
> Allan

I know that there was a new script and that it got reverted to the old
'as root' version for some reason. I'm sure it's all about that script.
I think Schiv knows the details.

Philipp