Bug 456214

Summary:	media-sound/alsa-utils: Stop installing the obsolete alsaconf command
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) <ssuominen>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo ALSA team <alsa-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	krinpaus, kripton, nikoli
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-7241982.html#7241982
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	301679, 466476

Description Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2013-02-08 19:43:15 UTC

- alsaconf is only useful with ISA and PCMCIA cards

- update-modules script that was installed with module-init-tools is no longer installed with kmod, and the script was no-op:
file : http://sources.gentoo.org/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/media-sound/alsa-utils/files/alsa-utils-1.0.26-kmod.patch?rev=1.1&view=markup
plain: http://sources.gentoo.org/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/media-sound/alsa-utils/files/alsa-utils-1.0.26-kmod.patch?rev=1.1&content-type=text/plain

- our documentation might have to be updated to drop the alsaconf references

and we have bug 455370, see discussion there

futher, from Freenode #systemd (udev):

21:21 < falconindy> ssuominen: i would urge you to drop alsaconf.
21:22 < kay> what's update-modules?
21:22 < falconindy> but even upstream wants it to die.
21:22 < falconindy> "The only valid use-case for alsaconf is aiding the configuration of ISA sound cards."
21:22 < falconindy> ISA.
21:23 < notting> ISA???
21:23 < ssuominen> kay: I just realized update-modules is specific script that was installed with module-init-tools on Debian, Gentoo, ...
21:23  * notting tries to remember how many years ago we dropped sndconfig
21:23 < ssuominen> distro-specific issue
21:23 < kay> pcmcia sounds cards :)

Comment 1 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2013-04-18 05:30:36 UTC

Found out the root cause why alsaconf is currently broken, it's because depmod from kmod doesn't create modules.pcimap file anymore:

/usr/sbin/alsaconf:    done < $MODDIR/modules.pcimap >> $1

But in mailing list the general consensus is to drop alsaconf so it doesn't really matter.

Comment 2 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2013-04-19 15:45:42 UTC

dropped in 1.0.26-r3