[Pkg-oss4-maintainers] Bug#558034: oss4-source: does not ship udev rules for creating device files

[Pierre Habouzit]

retitle 558034 oss4-kernel stuff should depends oss4-base
severity 558034 grave
thanks

On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 11:55:40AM +0900, Norbert Preining wrote:
> Package: oss4-source
> Version: 4.2-build2000-1
> Severity: important
> 
> $ cat /proc/opensound/devfiles 
> sndstat 249 0
> midi 249 1
> mixer 249 2
> oss/oss_hdaudio0/mix0 248 3
> oss/oss_hdaudio0/pcm0 248 4
> oss/oss_hdaudio0/pcm1 248 6
> oss/oss_hdaudio0/pcm2 248 8
> oss/oss_hdaudio0/spdout0 248 10
> oss/oss_hdaudio0/pcmin0 248 12
> oss/oss_hdaudio0/pcmin1 248 14
> oss/oss_hdaudio0/pcmin2 248 16
> oss/oss_hdaudio0/pcmin3 248 18
> $ ls /dev/pcm* /dev/snd* 
> ls: cannot access /dev/pcm*: No such file or directory
> ls: cannot access /dev/snd*: No such file or directory

This is because you loaded oss modules by hand and have not oss4-base
installed.

The base of the problem is that oss4-kernel-modules doesn't depend upon
oss4-base. Moreover, it should even restart /etc/init.d/oss4-base from
its postinst.
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