Kodi

[Michael Cronenworth]

On 07/22/2016 11:39 PM, Sérgio Basto wrote:
> I saw today, melmorabity built kodi-platform, but packaging kodi
> is confusing [¹] :
>
> F23 got 16.0
> F24 got 16.1 , but git is already in 17 alpha
> F25 build kodi-17.0-0.2.fc25 failed
>
> May I build  16.1 on F23 and respective kodi-platform ?
>
>
> [¹]http://koji.rpmfusion.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=103

I have built 16.1 for F23.

The rawhide build failed because 17 is now attempting to download source during 
build time. This will fail on koji due to no external network access in mock. I hate 
projects that download source during build time.

The source being downloaded are modified libdvdnav and libdvdread that Kodi needs 
for optical disc reading. You cannot use upstream libdvdnav, libdvdread as there are 
differing symbols. These modified libraries also require linking with libdvdcss at 
compile time instead of the dynamic loading that the upstream versions do. Kodi 
freezes if you attempt to read a DVD without libdvdcss support. I have not pushed a 
build with libdvdcss support yet as the current discussion about RPMFusion carrying 
this controversial library is still open.

I'm just shaking my head at Kodi's decision to bundle these modified libraries. 
There is no reason for it. Optical drives haven't changed and upstream's version of 
the libraries were working just fine. Instead of working with upstream or just 
leaving the optical disc support alone we are left in this state.