[linux-audio-user] realtime-lsm in the kernel

John Check j4strngs at bitless.net
Fri Sep 10 23:03:22 EDT 2004


On Friday 10 September 2004 03:57 pm, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 03:10:15PM -0400, John Check wrote:
> > On Thursday 09 September 2004 04:03 pm, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote:
> > > On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 09:24:24PM +0300, David Baron wrote:
> > > > On Thursday 09 September 2004 19:00,
> > > > linux-audio-user-request at music.columbia.edu wrote:
> >
> > Really, the package system for debian is pretty easy and when you've got
> > a package already most of the work is already done.. Make a couple of
> > edits to the control files and build. The kernel-utils make it easy:
> > make-kpkg clean && make-kpkg kernel-image modules-image && dpkg
> > -i ../kernel-image.deb ../modules-image.deb && reboot
> > or portions thereof.
>
> I tried doing things this way many months ago, but couldn't get it
> working ... I'll have to look into it again. I believe you when you say
> it should be really easy. I can't remember exactly what went wrong.
>

Okay well, lemme know what happens when you do.

> > > I'm not sure how to work this into debian longterm. Probably Lee's idea
> > > to get it in the kernel is the best plan. The other option is to have
> > > some crazy soul paying attention to debian kernel builds and getting a
> > > new lsm.deb built and uploaded to unstable for every new kernel. I
> > > would
> >
> > More like get every kernel package builder to carry the realtime-lsm
> > source. Pretty sure that's how they provide the ALSA packages
>
> I've been feeling more and more lately that I need to stop doing things
> my own way. It works for me, but I figure if I can figure out problems
> on my own system, it can't be that much more effort to figure things out
> within the debian framework. That way I could help more people than my
> self with minimal additional effort. Besides, most of the time my
> problems will already have been solved by someone else.
>
> -Eric Rz.

Yes, well I went to Debian for the convenience. They have utilities to do 
everything, one just needs to know what they are. That's what the policy 
manual is for.



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