Bug 9417 – Alsa should have ~x86 keyword

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Arun Thomas (RETIRED) 2002-10-20 22:30:12 UTC]

The alsa 0.9.0_rc3 ebuilds should probably have the ~x86 keyword. I've been
using them for over a month on gentoo 1.2 and gentoo 1.4 on p3-based systems. I
have the maestro3 and emu10k1 cards.

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[Comment 1 SpanKY 2002-10-20 22:58:19 UTC]

~ is for packages we're not sure is good to use ...

[Comment 2 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) 2002-10-20 23:07:57 UTC]

it's masked for testing, so he's right

[Comment 3 Arun Thomas (RETIRED) 2002-10-20 23:11:06 UTC]

The way I understood it to the ~arch thing is for packages that seem to work on
their respective archs, but need more testing. Masking is only for broken
packages. The rc3 ebuilds are masked currently. They should probably have the
~arch keyword instead, since they were "masked pending some testing" according
to the package.mask. They do not appear to be broken.

This is how the ~arch mechanism was explained to me anyway when I talked to
some of the other devs.

[Comment 4 SpanKY 2002-10-20 23:16:36 UTC]

he said hes been using them for over a month so i thought it was good to go

*shrug*

[Comment 5 Arcady Genkin (RETIRED) 2002-10-20 23:25:40 UTC]

Actually the _rc3 *is* broken.  There are a couple of compile-time issues with
the -driver package; it works for some people, though.

I'm going to mark this bug as "invalid" and update the comment in the
package.mask file to make it clear that the package is broken.

Thanks.

[Comment 6 Arun Thomas (RETIRED) 2002-10-20 23:28:27 UTC]

Fair enough. Thanks.

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