Compiled FFADO and ARDOUR 2.7.1 for Ubuntu...

[john.seekins]

So I was digging around trying to find out how to build FFADO for my Ubuntu Studio machine when I found this page:
Khashayar's PPA on Launchpad
He keeps the most up-to-date FFADO, Ardour, JACK, and other libraries there, packaged into .deb archives for your easy installation.
I haven't had a chance to properly test the FFADO stuff (my mixer comes Tuesday), but it looks quite promising.

[studio32]

Nice such PPA repo's, but its way better to make sure those packages will hit the officiall release.

The Debian Multimedia Team is working on it, for Ubuntu too

http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermai ... 03016.html

[raboof]

Nice such PPA repo's, but its way better to make sure those packages will hit the officiall release.

If I'm not mistaken, khashayar is making backports of the official Ubuntu packages. This means if a package shows up in this PPA, it has already been made sure that it'll also hit the official upcoming release (in this case Jaunty).

The packages in his PPA are useful for those who'd like to have newer versions of some packages, without having to upgrade their entire system to n+1 (in this case Jaunty - which you probably don't want, as it has not been released yet).

Besides this PPA, there is also an 'official backports repository' for Ubuntu. Of course it would be much more desirable to have the backports in the official repo instead of khashayar's PPA. This, however, does not seem feasible at this point: khashayar is including a newer version of libjack (for good reasons. For inclusion in the official backports repo, all 1275 packages that depend either directly or indirectly on libjack must be tested. Afaik, this is generally believed to be unfeasible.

So afaics having khashayar's PPA with backports of the upcoming official packages is useful and pretty much 'as good as it gets'...