Status of RPM Fusion for EL

[Hans de Goede]

Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> On 09.11.2008 19:35, Hans de Goede wrote:
>> Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>>> - gstreamer-plugins-{bad,ugly} -- lost track here; last mail on that 
>>> topic iirc was this:
>>> http://lists.rpmfusion.org/pipermail/rpmfusion-developers/2008-September/001003.html 
>>> Hans, do you want to work on that? Is somebody else interested to 
>>> drive this forward (and coordinate with Hans)?
>> I don't have much time for this, more importantly I won't be making 
>> much use of this, therefore I would like to co-maintain this with 
>> someone who does use RHEL on the desktop, and thus is likely to notice 
>> problems before end users do.
> 
> Just a note: I'm not using RHEL on my desktop either (but CentOS 5 is on 
> my gf's machine), so I don't feel really well to take those two over.
> 
>> I've been doing some research and RHEL-5.3 is going to muddy the water 
>> here. 5.0 -> 5.2 have gstreamer + gstreamer-plugins-base at 0.10.9, 
>> RHEL-5.3 moves those to 0.10.20. So for RHEL-5.3 we can and I guess 
>> should be shipping a much newer gstreamer-plugings-*, but we dont have 
>> any way todo that. 
> 
> /me wonders if he missed something
> 
> /me reads again
> 
> /me got lost
> 
> Ehhh. Sorry, but why don't we have any way to do that? EPEL ignored the 
> Z-Streams, thus we likely need to do the same. So where is the problem? 
> I'd say we get bad and ugly 0.10.9 in now and update to 0.10.20 when 5.3 
> comes out.
> 

If we do that then 5.0, 5.1 and 5.2 users will not be able to install those 
gstreamer packages, as these will Require the newer gstreamer packages from 
RHEL-5.3, if that is ok with EPEL's guidelines, then I'm all for it.

I would find this strange though. If instead we create packages which work with 
the ancient gstreamer in RHEL 5.0 - 5.2, those will *also* work with RHEL 5.3, 
but doing so is going to be a major PITA.

> /me still wonders if he missed something

I hope this explains it better, also please keep in mind I'm a complete EPEL noob.

Regards,

Hans