On Tue, 23.11.10 10:44, Jaroslav Kysela (perex@perex.cz) wrote:

Heya,

> > Up to this point most distributions have been using different init
> > scripts/udev rules files to save/restore mixer settings at
> > boot/hotplug/shutdown. Please see my two attached patches for alsa-utils
> > which add standardized, simplified support for this.
> >
> > The first patch is stolen from Debian/Ubuntu, which moves asound.state
> > to /var/lib, which is a more appropriate place, since /etc might be
> > read-only.
> 
> This will break users which upgrade the package manually from sources and
> /var/lib/alsa directory is not created. I think that the 'make 
> install' rules should create this directory and also alsaconf should 
> check/create this directory if it does not exists.

See attached patch. This will now ensure the directory is created both
at install time and when alsaconf is run.

Also, I made the path configurable, as requested by Takashi, however
set the default to /var/lib/alsa.

> > Given that most big distributions are moving to adopt systemd sooner or
> > later it would be great to have support for this in the upstream package
> > to avoid further balkanization how things are done here.
> 
> I applied this second patch to the alsa-utils repo.

Thanks!

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc.