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. --g ------------------------------------------------------------- Greg DeKoenigsberg || Fedora Project || fedoraproject.org Be an Ambassador || http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ambassadors ------------------------------------------------------------- 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. > > _______________________________________________ > Fedora-music-list mailing list > Fedora-music-list@xxxxxxxxxx > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-music-list >
