On Sun, 13 Jan 2008 10:54:29 -0500 Todd Zullinger <tmz@xxxxxxxxx> took out a #2 pencil and scribbled: > Alex White wrote: <snipped> > Did it give you any particular errors? I'd like to see any bugs > in the libgpod code fixed so that things "Just Work(tm)" for > users of newer ipods. I'll restore my ipod to factory and go through the process again when I get a chance. I will report back for you, I will also create a bug report to help out. > If anyone else has problems with the libgpod update that's now in > F7 and F8, please report them (preferably in bugzilla, as > sometimes I miss things on the list :). I don't use Fedora on the machine I connect my ipod to, I use CentOS 5, so I am not familiar with the packages that are in F7. I probably should have been up front about that. My apologies. Hence why I picked up the source and modified the Fedora spec to create my libgpod rpm. Sorry about that. ^_^ > > Ideally, there would be a more automatic way of handling it, > > but I do not own a Nano, so I can't speak for its > > functionality. Please note that path names will be different > > for you. These are just examples. > > There is a hal callout in the libgpod update that is supposed to > take care of this automagically. I have talked to several users > with new classics and nano videos that is has worked well for. > Any cases where it fails are bugs that can likely be addressed if > we get good information on why things are failing. > I was probably being obtuse. I'm not the sharpest edged tool in the shed. > > There are many posts in Ubuntu forums and others concerning > > newer ipodx devices. If you are able to make the leap from > > Ubuntu pacakage/tarball installing to rpm based installing, you > > should not have a problem. I created my own libgpod rpms for > > example. > > There's no reason at all to move to Ubuntu over things like this. > There are no official packages for Ubuntu, while there are for > Fedora. And, AFAIK from talking with some Ubuntu > packagers/developers, there will not be any official libgpod > updates in the current Ubuntu releases. > > There is also much useless info in the ubuntu forums regarding > ipods, so please be careful if/when reading the advice there. :) > I was again, probably being obtuse. I didn't mean to suggest anyone should go to ubuntu simply for packages or for better ipod experience. I meant, in terms of packaging (if it is even necessary, and I'm not sure it is for Fedora at this point) to be able to make an rpm rather than a deb. I hope that makes sense. Sorry for making that confusing. Let me repeat that. I wasn't in any way suggesting one install Ubuntu for the sake of ipod usage. ^_^ There is definitely a lot of useless info, I happened to be semi-familiar when I came across the forums as to what was useful to me. Hence I was suggesting that ubuntu has a lot of forums posts and you may want to look there _purely for guidance_. Sorry if I was not clear about that. Poor choice of words. Sincerely -- ethericalzen@xxxxxxxxx Life is a prison, death is a release
