Am Dienstag, den 09.05.2006, 16:31 +1000 schrieb Tim Mayberry: > 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. That partly my fault. > 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. The old plan was to move alsa-firmware to livna. The current plan is to solve the problems with alsa-firmware and ship what can be shipped. Someone (Legal, FESCo) simply has to say what files from alsa-firmware are okay for Extras, and what not. The last I heard was this: ---- > I maintained some alsa-firmware in the old fedora.us days. During the > transition to Fedora Extras the package got "lost" -- it was unclear if > the files in it were okay for the official Fedora Extras. See > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=143249#c3 > > We dropped it then and forwarded the issue to legal. It got lost or was > forgotten, I can't remember. But I'd like to get this solved now that > someone asked for a Extras package of alsa-firmware in bugzilla. > > So, where were the problems? Here is the main one: > > > $ file ./mixartloader/miXart8.elf > > ./mixartloader/miXart8.elf: ELF 32-bit MSB executable, PowerPC or cisco 4500, version 1 (SYSV), statically linked, not stripped That is a pretty big problem. Some of this is probably ok for FE, but only those bits which are not libraries or binaries. ---- I got distracted at that point -- so there is no real list what's oky for Extras and what not. > 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. Livna is willing to help here for those bits that can't be in Extras. > I'm not aware of a precedent of a package in the Fedora Extras > repository depending on a package in an external repository [...] Not possible. > 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. We should split alsa-firmware -- the "mostly free" parts should land in Extras, the others in Livna. Are you interested in doing this. I simply have no time for it ATM, never really was interested this alsa-firmware stuff and I don't even have hardware to test. Are you interested in driving this forward? You can of course count on my help. CU thl
