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From: Andreas Waschbuesch <awaschb@××××.de>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] ALSA 0.9.0rc1 packages committed
Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2002 04:35:24
Message-Id: 200204271134.39060.awaschb@gwdg.de
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] ALSA 0.9.0rc1 packages committed by Arcady Genkin
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4 electrogramma illius Arcady Genkin profluit verbis:
5 > I just updated alsa-drivers, alsa-lib, alsa-utils, alsa-oss, and
6 > alsa-tools packages to the latest version (0.9.0rc1). Could you
7 > people please test them, and we should unmask the 0.9 version of alsa,
8 > since, according to alsa's web site[1]:
9 >
10 > The 0.5.x series is considered deprecated and is no longer
11 > supported by ALSA developers.
12 >
13 > One gotcha when upgrading to the new version is that portage thinks
14 > that 0.9.0.1_beta10 is newer than 0.9.0_rc1. Note that the 0.9.0.1
15 > version was a hack to work around portage's deficiency with handling
16 > alphabetic parts in versions (it should have been 0.9.0a_beta10, but
17 > that doesn't work with portage). Now that hack has backfired on us,
18 > and anyone who wants to upgrade would have to specify the new version
19 > for alsa-lib and alsa-utils. :-(
20 >
21 > Footnotes:
22 > [1] http://www.alsa-project.org/
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24 alsa-lib AND -utils complain about wrong or missing alsa-driver during emerge,
25 though everything is in place :-(
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27 Greets - Andrew
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30 Andreas Waschbuesch, GAUniversity KG MA FNZ FK01
31 eMail: awaschb@××××.de
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33 Populus vult decipi.
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Re: [gentoo-dev] ALSA 0.9.0rc1 packages committed Milos Negovanovic <milosn@××××××××××××.nz>