Re: [gentoo-dev] ALSA 0.9.0rc1 packages committed

[Andreas Waschbuesch <awaschb@gwdg.de>]

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electrogramma illius Arcady Genkin profluit verbis:
> I just updated alsa-drivers, alsa-lib, alsa-utils, alsa-oss, and
> alsa-tools packages to the latest version (0.9.0rc1).  Could you
> people please test them, and we should unmask the 0.9 version of alsa,
> since, according to alsa's web site[1]:
>
>    The 0.5.x series is considered deprecated and is no longer
>    supported by ALSA developers.
>
> One gotcha when upgrading to the new version is that portage thinks
> that 0.9.0.1_beta10 is newer than 0.9.0_rc1.  Note that the 0.9.0.1
> version was a hack to work around portage's deficiency with handling
> alphabetic parts in versions (it should have been 0.9.0a_beta10, but
> that doesn't work with portage).  Now that hack has backfired on us,
> and anyone who wants to upgrade would have to specify the new version
> for alsa-lib and alsa-utils. :-(
>
> Footnotes:
> [1]  http://www.alsa-project.org/

alsa-lib AND -utils complain about wrong or missing alsa-driver during emerge, 
though everything is in place :-(

Greets - Andrew

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Andreas Waschbuesch, GAUniversity KG MA FNZ FK01
eMail: awaschb@gwdg.de

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