[OE-core] alsaconf and bash

[Florin Sarbu]

Would you guys suggest we add bash as a dependency for alsa-utils?

On 01/08/2013 08:09 AM, Florin Sarbu wrote:
> On 01/08/2013 02:44 AM, Chris Larson wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 2:36 PM, Florin Sarbu 
>> <florin.sarbu at windriver.com <mailto:florin.sarbu at windriver.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     in alsa-utils_1.0.25.bb <http://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.
> Okay, so it seems that the comment actually said at that time that the 
> alsa-utils generated rpm won't contain alsaconf. And bellow, this bash 
> script gets into the alsa-utils-alsaconf rpm. Unfortunately, even 
> though there is this separation, the alsa-utils rpm depends on the 
> alsa-utils-alsaconf rpm so it's pretty much the same thing as 
> do_rootfs is concerned. (missing bash dependency). How would you guys 
> see this resolved upstream? Add bash as a dep, remove 
> alsa-utils-alsaconf as a dep or alsa-utils (as the comment says the 
> script is not suitable for OE-based distros) or check the alsaconf 
> script for bashisms and fix if any and make alsa-utils rely on a 
> busybox shell interpreter if possible (with the modification of the 
> !/bin/bash shabang from the alsaconf script to /bin/sh)?
>
> Florin
>
>> -- 
>> Christopher Larson
>
>
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