From: Zachary Kline <zkline@speedpost.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: Minor hiccups with espeak 1.44.05 and espeakup 0.71-3 on Arch
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 20:45:30 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1009172044440.13393@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100918024436.GA7504@lnx3.holmesgrown.com>
Hi,
Yes, Pacman will warn you if there is a new version available when you
ignore espeak. Telling when that version is new enough to be upgraded to
safely is your problem.
Best,
Zack.
On Fri, 17 Sep 2010, Steve Holmes wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 03:13:43AM -0500, Christopher Brannon wrote:
>> One option is to downgrade, assuming that you still have access to
>> the old package. As you know, those usually aren't kept on our mirrors.
>> I put a copy of the previous version on my website. You should be able
>> to downgrade with the following command:
>> pacman -U http://the-brannons.com/misc/espeak-1.44.02-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz
>>
>> I hope this gets resolved soon!
>
> I hope so too. I have a question relating to Arch in the meantime; if
> I specify espeak in an ignor option for pacman, will the upgrade
> process still tell me if new versions come available? I ask this
> because if I don't formally ignore this package, pacman -Syu would
> merely try to upgrade all referenced packages including espeak.
> That's one thing where I wish pacman had an option where you could
> step through packages one by one; presently, it's an all or none
> situation.
>
> Most of the espeak problems I encountered seemed to happen with
> emacspeak; hadn't noticed any particular problem with espeakup and
> speakup yet. But when I downgraded, emacspeak began to speak properly
> again. With espeak 0.44.05 or whatever, emacspeak started wining all
> over the place with pitch changes. To much for me. Emacspeak and its
> varying voices is enough and well intentioned but this got to be out
> of hand so dropping back to previous version fixed that problem.
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Zachary Kline
` Luke Yelavich
` Christopher Brannon
` Willem van der Walt
` Zachary Kline
` Chuck Hallenbeck
` Steve Holmes
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