Hi Carl,
On Wed, Aug 23, 2023 at 02:43:22PM +1200, Carl Laufer wrote:
I guess my next question is, can anyone update the old
Windows build zip at
https://osmocom.org/attachments/2242 as software like SDR# pulls rtlsdr.dll
from that via a bat file? I guess they should really pull from the weekly
builds, but that probably complicates the bat file a little since it needs
to track the latest build date and rename librtlsdr.dll to rtlsdr.dll.
I'm not really the best person to say anything regarding Windows
support. If you register an
osmocom.org wiki account, I'm happy to give
you wiki editing permissions.
The way how redmine works though is that the attachment 2242 is that one old
version that was uploaded. If you remove it and upload a new version, it will
have a different attachment number.
What we can do is to have something like a symlink from
https://ftp.osmocom.org/binaries/windows/rtl-sdr/rtl-sdr-64bit-weekly.zip
and
https://ftp.osmocom.org/binaries/windows/rtl-sdr/rtl-sdr-32bit-weekly.zip which then
points to whatever is the most current weekly version. This way any 3rd party software
should be updated to use those links.
If this sounds like a good idea, feel free to create a related issue on
osmocom.org
and assign it to user osmith, who is doing most of our CI related work.
And secondly, how often does the rtl-sdr apt-get
package on Linux get
updated, and who would need to be informed for that to happen?
This depends on where the package originates from. It's usually safe to assume
most people use the package from the respective distribution, so the policy of
if and when that gets updated relies with Debian, Ubuntu, etc. for the given
release (like Debian 10, 11, 12).
In addition, osmocom is publishing its own package feeds for a variety of Linux
distributions; one for the latest (released) version, and one for a nightly build,
see
https://osmocom.org/projects/cellular-infrastructure/wiki/Latest_Builds and
https://osmocom.org/projects/cellular-infrastructure/wiki/Nightly_Builds
respectively.
For the nightly build, your patch is already included. For the "latest", it
depends
on when steve-m decides to tag a new version of rtl-sdr. The latest package then
gets automatically updated.
--
- Harald Welte <laforge(a)osmocom.org>
https://laforge.gnumonks.org/
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