Once upon a time, Takashi wrote : > the problem is that many different kernel binaries are built using the > same kernel tree, i.e. there are many different kernel configs while > there is only one kernel-source package. > thus you have to adjust the kernel config by yourself anyway. > > in case building the kernel from scratach, you'll surely configure the > tree once in prior to build of alsa modules. this ensures you having > the correct kernel tree. > but in the case of distro's kernel package, the default configuration > might not match with the running kernel unless you set up properly. > and, much worse is that this small "tune-up" is dependent on each > distro (for example, the location of config files, etc.) > > it might be possible to hack a spec file to change such things > automatically. but, as you know, hacking a spec file is awesome and > makes the situation more more complicated ;)
I've managed to work something out for Red Hat Linux that should be easily portable to Mandrake I guess (then again, they already have ALSA 0.5.x built in, is that what I understood from the last few mails??). I have a single "alsa-driver" source package which builds a binary "alsa-driver" one containing the include files and the device entries (in a tricky way by adding a file to /etc/makedev.d/ in order to package the device entries even while building as non-root), and another "alsa-kernel" one which matches the currently running kernel's package. For Red Hat Linux 8.0, I've got these : alsa-driver-0.9.0rc3-fr11.i586.rpm alsa-driver-0.9.0rc3-fr11.src.rpm alsa-kernel-0.9.0rc3-fr11_2.4.18_14.athlon.rpm alsa-kernel-0.9.0rc3-fr11_2.4.18_14.i586.rpm alsa-kernel-0.9.0rc3-fr11_2.4.18_14.i686.rpm alsa-kernel-smp-0.9.0rc3-fr11_2.4.18_14.athlon.rpm alsa-kernel-smp-0.9.0rc3-fr11_2.4.18_14.i686.rpm And even apt for rpm is able to install the correct package when used. Ain't it easy? All these are easily built by having the "kernel-source" package installed (the same for all archs), and while running the kernel to build for so that SMP and CPU arch are detected correctly :-) You can take a look at all my spec files from here : http://freshrpms.net/builds/index.html?sort=name And all binary / source packages from here : http://psyche.freshrpms.net/ This is quite Red Hat Linux specific, but as Mandrake's way of naming and managing rpms is close, things may work with minor tweaking. Of course, this doesn't apply for "home made kernels" for which you should always keep the source tree and rebuild the ALSA modules against it "by hand" too. Matthias -- Clean custom Red Hat Linux rpm packages : http://freshrpms.net/ Red Hat Linux release 7.3 (Valhalla) running Linux kernel 2.4.18-10acpi Load : 0.15 0.23 0.37 ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel
