Ubuntu Media Playing Packages

0.23-fixes in release repo

Tue, 11 May 2010 21:30:11 +1000

0.23 has been officially released today.

The 0.23 packages will now be in the release repository.

If you want to say on 0.22-fixes ; make sure you lock your version !

0.23-fixes in the testing repository

Tue, 13 Apr 2010 12:55:20 +1000

0.23-fixes packages can be found in the testing repository.

They are build for Jaunty, Karmic and the upcoming Lucid.

Trunk packages can still be found in the trunk repository for the same platforms.

Server down for 28 hours

Wed, 7 Apr 2010 03:21:33 +1000

I suffered a pretty major downtime following a software upgrade (Ubuntu 8.04 LTS to 10.04 LTS beta 1).

I turned out to be a hardware issue; one of the drive of the RAID array is faulty, so much so that the PC refuses to boot when it happens. And as I have no physical access to the machine, I couldn’t diagnostic what was happening.

Thanks to IPMI (what a cool technology), I was provided with a serial console access to the machine and could track what the problem was exactly.

New drive has been ordered... Hopefully the server will stay up this time...

Sorry for the inconvenience

Clean up

Mon, 5 Apr 2010 18:59:10 +1000

I am cleaning the repository ; only keeping the last 5 versions of each package.

I had daily build of MythTV , mplayer and others since October 1st, 2009. It started to add-up.

Intrepid Support

Mon, 5 Apr 2010 18:51:02 +1000

As I am creating a new repository for the next Ubuntu version (Lucid). I’ve decided to drop support for both Hardy (8.04) and Intrepid (8.10).

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS is just around the corner so it shouldn’t be an issue.

It’s taking longer and longer to build all packages; and the repository is now almost 1TB in size as I keep so much history.

I’m not deleting any existing packages ; just not creating new ones for those distros.

For those still using 8.04 or 8.10 ; time to upgrade !