Topic: What is LIRC 0.8.4?

[christian]

I'm slightly confused as to why on atrpms there is a version 0.8.4-80 of LIRC. I thought the latest version was 0.8.3 (based on the lirc site). When I use yum and enable atrpms for SME7.3, it wants to pull this 0.8.4 version in.

Anyone know what 0.8.4-80 is?

Christian

[cactus]

I'm slightly confused as to why on atrpms there is a version 0.8.4-80 of LIRC. I thought the latest version was 0.8.3 (based on the lirc site). When I use yum and enable atrpms for SME7.3, it wants to pull this 0.8.4 version in.

Anyone know what 0.8.4-80 is?

Christian

First of all this is off topic for SME Servers, you should have asked on the atrpms mailinglists or bugtracker (which are linked in the introduction on the main site: http://www.atrpms.net/).

Some times the website of ATrpms is not up-to-date with the repositories, which would mean in this case that a new version was packaged while the website(s) seem to be lagging.

[christian]

Some times the website of ATrpms is not up-to-date with the repositories

So in other words atrpms has packaged an rpm that is not yet labeled in CVS? hence my confusion to see atrpms which seems to be ahead of lirc.org or perhaps mispackaged.

First of all this is off topic for SME Servers

perhaps, though SME does include LIRC (0.6.6 I believe) though I'm not sure why. It is also why I posted in this topic group "general" as opposed to other per "general's" mandate:"Discussions about contribs.org, Linux in general, and other topics that don't belong in the other forums."

lirc.org didn't have a discussion group but will I look for the atrpms one. thanks for the pointer and thanks for responding.

[christian]

For the curious the response I got from Axel at ATrpms was:

The whole version/release string is not 0.8.4-80, but
lirc-0.8.4-80_cvs20080528.$dist. So, I hoe that answers the question
on "what".

The next natural question could be "why" and the reason is that 0.8.3
doesn't build/work on recent kernels, and the cvs cut above had the
needed patches and some other fixes as well.

This may help someone else.