[OE-core] alsaconf and bash

[Chris Larson]

On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 2:36 PM, Florin Sarbu <florin.sarbu at windriver.com>wrote:

> in alsa-utils_1.0.25.bb, I see this comment:
>
> # We omit alsaconf, because
> # a) this is a bash script
> # b) it creates config files not suitable for OE-based distros
>
> Trying out on master, I get a do_rootfs error because bash is not a rundep
> of alsa-utils, and there is nothing in the alsa-utils recipe that actually
> does the above mentioned removal of the alsaconf script. Looking in the git
> log, I only see that the comment has suddenly appeared in an older
> alsa-utils recipe and has been carried along since with every update to the
> recipe, and not left over there as an artifact of some older commit as I
> expected.
> Can anyone shed some light on this?
>


>From some quick git log -S commands in the old openembedded classic
repository, it seems to have originated
with 7653e980f66b4bd147df308f9b04d6b197382d6a from 2005, and the line below
the comment was 'FILES_${PN} = ""', so presumably that was what left it out
— none of the files patterns matched it.
-- 
Christopher Larson
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