Dependancy Problems

evan18h · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 02 Dec 2004 Posts: 83

I use the linux kernel 2.6 with built in Alsa support so I shouldn't need the alsa-drivers, yet emerge wants to add it in becuase I am using alsa-tools so I can adjust the sound with amixer. So I tried injecting the alsa-drivers, that doesn't help. Then I tried masking all the alsa-driver versions so they will stop bothering me, but that doesn't work becuase I get a dependancy problem which stops emerge from doing anything. How can I tell emerge that I don't want the alsa-drivers with out messing more things up.

SZwarts · Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2004 3:04 am Post subject:

Well I have a 2.6 kernel too, so I have the same "problem". But injecting here did work. I was only a little bit confused that the inject file package.provided only worked for me if it was in a different directory than package.use.

To solve it I did:

TrueDFX · Retired Dev Joined: 02 Jun 2004 Posts: 1348

2.6 kernel here too, and no problem. alsa-driver isn't installed, neither anything on my system nor alsa-tools wants it installed.

Did you tell portage to remove the kernel sources, perhaps? If so, you should reinstall it and if you just want the free disk space, remove the /usr/src/linux-xxx directory manually.

evan18h · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 02 Dec 2004 Posts: 83

TrueDFX · Retired Dev Joined: 02 Jun 2004 Posts: 1348

SZwarts · Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2004 5:26 am Post subject:

I have a kernel from kernel.org too, It is not necessary to install the development-sources to get rid of this message. Injecting should work ofr alsa-driver should work, since if it doesn't the complete inject function is useles, because this is exactly why the inject function was designed. So are you very sure that you injected it in the right way? Because when I did what I wrote here, portage stopped asking for the alsa-driver.
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evan18h · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 02 Dec 2004 Posts: 83

I injected like this:
emerge -i media-sound/alsa-driver-1.0.6

and it still shows up when I run:
emerge -pvuD world

now you said that you got it working with your
way.... I am kind of confused about what you did, I know
you typed the whole thing out step for step, but it doesn't
seem to go anywhere when I do it

SZwarts · Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2004 5:57 am Post subject:

evan18h · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 02 Dec 2004 Posts: 83

hey I think your way worked, thanks a bunch.
I was a little confused about the name of the folder profile, because at
first you called it profile but later you called it profiles, with a S at the end.

TrueDFX · Retired Dev Joined: 02 Jun 2004 Posts: 1348

1: --inject still works. It's deprecated but still functional.
2: alsa-driver-1.0.6a is marked stable for x86 and is newer than the injected alsa-driver-1.0.6, which is why portage wants to install the new version.
3: /etc/portage/profile/package.provided is the correct pathname, but there's a missing command in the instructions in the second post that everyone so far (myself included) overlooked: