[Fedora-music-list] Alsa tools and firmware

[Greg DeKoenigsberg]

Sounds like the fundamental question to be answered is whether 
alsa-firmware can be packaged in Extras-land.  From the bug, looks like 
Thorsten is on it.

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On Tue, 9 May 2006, Tim Mayberry wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> It seems the alsa-tools package in fedora extras is crippled as I
> found out a little while ago
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=186858 and there
> is no alsa-firmware package in FE.
> 
> This is a bit of a problem for people like myself who use audio
> devices that need firmware to be loaded into the device before it can
> be used. In the past I used the planet CCRMA alsa packages and more
> recently I built and installed the alsa-tools and alsa-firmware
> packages from source tarballs because at the time planet CCRMA didn't
> support FC5.
> 
> Although I greatly appreciate the work of Fernando and others at
> CCRMA, I don't really like the idea of replacing the whole alsa stack
> when as far as I'm aware it isn't really necessary. I believe the
> alsa-firmware package is not available in FE because of policy,
> assuming that is still the case it would mean that the alsa-firmware
> package would need to be hosted in an external repository.
> 
> I'm not aware of a precedent of a package in the Fedora Extras
> repository depending on a package in an external repository but it
> doesn't sound like a good idea if it can be avoided. In this case it
> can by removing the crippled alsa-tools package from Fedora Extras and
> keeping it an external repository along with the alsa-firmware
> package.
> 
> I'm not sure if this would be the best solution or if there are issues
> that meant it wouldn't be possible but I would like to help in making
> it easier for Fedora to support these devices as getting them to work
> at the moment is frustrating(at least to me) and beyond the capability
> of what I would expect from the "average user".
> 
> Thoughts and ideas welcome...
> 
> Tim.
> 
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