Working on a dvbcut package - needs ffmpeg - linking problems

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Saturday, 17 November 2007 at 05:41, David Timms wrote:
> Hi, I'm new to rpmfusion {though I have package a simple app - glglobe - 
> for fedora}. I am keen to get dvbcut into rpmfusion since it wouldn't 
> suit fedora.
> 
> I started trying to build the .spec from scratch, with lots of problems. 
> A suse packman package {with patches} has helped get me to at least 
> starting the build. Now I'm stuck with linking problems. A post to 
> fedora-list [1] yielded a hint about ffmpeg version incompatibility, but 
> I probably need to step back for a moment.
> 
> The application introduced it's own version of ffmpeg a while ago - and 
> has been getting patched without {from what I can tell} patches moving 
> upstream.
> 
> In an effort to compile, I have tried the:
> freshrpms, livna and atrpms f7 ffmpeg packages to build against, but no 
> further progress.
> 
> So: some queries:
> 1. Ideally I want to build against rpmfusion's version which is yet to 
> exist {FromWAKTell}. Clearly there is some things to sort out first [2], 
> with the new pckage to be based on livna's. Is it wise to invest time 
> trying to build against livna's current F7 version ? or F8 ?

Use livna development version, please. That's our rpmfusion playground
for now.

> 2. Since the application source includes a separate ffmpeg, should I 
> just try to package and separately build that as a requires for dvbcut ? 
> ie would a package with repeated functionality be included in rpmfusion ?

Please try to make it use our package first.

> 3. Would it be worth trying to determine diffs between the included 
> ffmpeg and the other repo's version / patches. Perhaps the included 
> version has suitable patches.

Yes.

> 4. There is a lot of dvbcut source changes that could be made to 
> eliminate deprecated functions warnings, and in fact the newest ffmpeg 
> actually removes some of those deprecated functions. Would not patching 
> those problems lead to a negative appraisal from rpmfusion ?

Post the specfile and src.rpm. We'll see.

Regards,
R.

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