[alsa-devel] [PATCHES] Integrate minimal systemd support in alsa-utils

[Takashi Iwai]

At Wed, 24 Nov 2010 11:50:28 +0100,
Kay Sievers wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 06:40, Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de> wrote:
> > At Tue, 23 Nov 2010 18:05:00 +0100, Kay Sievers wrote:
> 
> >> Now that both is merged, mind putting that in openSUSE Factory?
> >
> > Sure.  A few questions, though:
> >
> >> We need to enable systemd services with:
> >>   --with-systemdsystemunitdir=/lib/systemd/system
> >>
> >> list the files/dirs in:
> >>   /lib/systemd/system/*.service
> >>   /lib/udev/rules.d/*.rules
> >
> > These come from alsa-utils, obviously.  But alsa.rpm requires
> > alsa-utils, so this should be OK.
> 
> Fine.
> 
> >> Drop the current custom udev rule:
> >>   /etc/udev/rules.d/40-alsa.rules
> >> and use only the systemd one in /lib/udev/. It should work also for
> >> non-systemd setups.
> >
> > Do you mean I copy systemd's rules file to alsa.rpm...?
> 
> Can't we just let them get installed from alsa-utils.rpm?
> And drop the current rule from alsa.rpm?

Yes, we can.

> > We need a rules file for non-systemd (i.e. without systemd.rpm), so
> > someone still needs to provide a udev stuff for sound, I suppose?
> 
> Oh, we just enable --with-systemd and install the systemd files and
> udev rules unconditionally, they don't pull systemd.rpm in, the
> systemd files will jsut be ignored on SYSV boxes, but the udev rule
> will still be used. That should work and is how it usually works.

Ah, so you mean 90-alsa-restore.rules in alsa-utils package, and
drop 40-alsa.rules in the current alsa.rpm.  OK, that's easy.


thanks,

Takashi