[alsa-devel] Alsa snapshot directory layout changed

[Takashi Iwai]

At Mon, 07 Jan 2013 16:00:27 +0100,
Jaroslav Kysela wrote:
> 
> Date 7.1.2013 14:33, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > At Mon, 07 Jan 2013 11:58:10 +0100,
> > David Henningsson wrote:
> >>
> >> I have a script that picks daily snapshots from 
> >> ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/tiwai/snapshot/alsa-driver-snapshot.tar.gz
> >> ...and I just noticed that the directory layout has changed, so what was 
> >> "alsa-driver" is now "alsa-driver/alsa".
> >>
> >> Is this expected, i e, should I update my script to follow this new 
> >> layout, or was it a mistake?
> > 
> > It's no mistake, done intentionally so.
> > But I'm going to change the script to create a tarball without alsa/
> > subdirectory later.  But right now no time.
> 
> I would like to keep the structure same in GIT repo and tarball for the
> patch processing.

Keeping the same structure as a git repo is certainly a merit, but do
we really need it?  Basically all necessary stuff is found in alsa
directory, I though.  Any other missing pieces in the root directory?

> > As a workaround, just put a line like below in your script.
> > 
> > 	test -d alsa && cd alsa
> 
> Perhaps a README in the root directory with this information may be
> sufficient.

Maybe.  It's no big matter, so I already changed the tarball in that
way :)  But changing back (i.e. creating a tarball from alsa
directory) shouldn't be hard, too...


Takashi