At Mon, 22 Feb 2010 17:37:29 +0100 (CET), Jaroslav Kysela wrote: > > Hi all, > > I'm instroducing a new bash script - alsa-compile.sh - to allow > easy testing of new ALSA code by all users using standard Linux > desktop distributions. For example to get latest driver snapshot from > www.alsa-project.org, compile it and insert new kernel modules, just type: > > wget -O alsa-compile.sh http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-compile.sh > chmod 755 alsa-compile.sh > ./alsa-compile.sh --driver --kmodules > > More information are available using --help option. > More examples are available using --examples option. > > Actually, Fedora and openSUSE distributions are supported. Please, > send patches extending functionality for other distributions to this list > or directly to me. > > Takashi, you might want to add support (option) for your driver tarballs. > It would be probably a good idea to create a link to latest tarball in > your web directory. > > Please, send ideas, bugs, patches and any other issues to this list. Just one point I noticed quickly is that the standard directory for update modules is either /lib/modules/$VERSION/updates or /lib/modules/$VERSION/extras. We should follow that. I find this a good move in general. But, wouldn't it be better to cooperate with the existing packaging? For example, for openSUSE, there is already the snapshot RPM for each user-space stuff and the alsa-driver update KMP for all maintained distro versions on OBS. User can install the up-to-date packages simply via zypper without compiling. OTOH, if the purpose is to make easier to install from the source tree, then we can give a spec or deb file, or a script to set up such files so that user can kick off the packager to have the installation-ready test package. thanks, Takashi _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
