x264/ffmpeg updated status

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Friday, 06 November 2009 at 13:43, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> Nicolas Chauvet wrote on 05.11.2009 10:01:
> > 2009/11/5 Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora at leemhuis.info>:
> > ..
> >> What's the status of the new ffmpeg and x264 for rawhide?
> >>
> >>  * mplayer afaics wasn't build yet
> >>  * can I push the stuff?
> > I will have a free slot to work on this tonight.
> > I've asked quickly on #mplayer and recent snapshot will comply with
> > the x264 version, so that will be okay.
> > I will help with avidemux too. everything else is already compliant.
> 
> Dominik in private also said I can push the stuff once mplayer finished.
> So I did a few hours ago. Now I get this on my rawhide system:
> 
> """
> Loaded plugins: presto, refresh-packagekit
> Setting up Update Process
> Resolving Dependencies
> --> Running transaction check
> ---> Package ffmpeg-libs.x86_64 0:0.5-4.20091026svn.fc12 set to be updated
> ---> Package libdca.x86_64 0:0.0.5-5.fc12 set to be updated
> ---> Package libquicktime.x86_64 0:1.1.3-3.fc12 set to be updated
> --> Processing Dependency: libx264.so.76()(64bit) for package:
> gstreamer-plugins-ugly-0.10.12-3.fc12.x86_64
> ---> Package x264-libs.x86_64 0:0.0.0-0.26.20091026gitec46ace7.fc12 set
> to be updated
> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> gstreamer-plugins-ugly-0.10.12-3.fc12.x86_64 from installed has
> depsolving problems
>   --> Missing Dependency: libx264.so.76()(64bit) is needed by package
> gstreamer-plugins-ugly-0.10.12-3.fc12.x86_64 (installed)
> Error: Missing Dependency: libx264.so.76()(64bit) is needed by package
> gstreamer-plugins-ugly-0.10.12-3.fc12.x86_64 (installed)
>  You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
>  You could try running: package-cleanup --problems
>                         package-cleanup --dupes
>                         rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest
> """
> 
> Guess lot's of other will run into this to. So who is going to fix this
> quickly?

I'll do it. 

> And how do we handle things like this more gracefully in the
> future without annoying our users each time?
> 
> 
> Site note: not even all packages from the earlier x264/ffmpeg update
> round got fixed in between:
> 
> package: ultrastardx-1.1.1-1.7.20090411.fc11.x86_64 from
> rpmfusion-free-rawhide
>   unresolved deps:
>      libavutil.so.49()(64bit)

A simple rebuild should fix that. I'll do it today if nobody beats me to it.

> Sure, that's mostly a problem of the ultrastardx maintainer. But if such
> big updates like the earlier one for ffmpeg are done only very weeks
> before a new release then the ones that update ffmpeg IMHO should help a
> bit more to keep the repo in a sane state to allow testing of both
> Fedora and RPM Fusion.

Sorry, I didn't have time to do it earlier.

Regards,
R.

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