Supporting Moblin?

[Nicolas Chauvet]

2009/11/25 Michel Alexandre Salim <michael.silvanus at gmail.com>:
> Hi all,
>
> We've so far provided add-on packages for Fedora and RHEL; it would
> appear that, with a reasonable amount of work, we should be able to
> support Moblin as well. There are several posts online on using
> RPMfusion's gstreamer-bad with Moblin, but as the codebases diverge
> more, it's getting more and more difficult to get the Fedora RPMs
> working as-is.
>
> Is anyone interested in this? Are there written instructions on how to
> add a new Mock target to the build system?
Do we know the incompatility with gstreamer-plugin-bad from fedora in moblin?
>From which nature is the problem ?

IMO, The problem is with lack of ressources. Actually RHEL support
isn't at the same state as Fedora, and even Fedora lack ressources and
packagers to work on updating multimedia stack, mass rebuild packages,
bugs solving and packages reviews.

One other reason is that there is work done, in Fedora to re-integrate
moblin improvements :
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/FedoraMoblin . This would be
like if we shoot in the feet of this project if we would work on
moblin directly.
The idea behind is that working on Fedora and RHEL is already lot of
work so we don't have bug report from other fork or derived (like
Mobling Linpus) but why not to support Mandriva OpenSuse and other
also ?

That been said, from a technical point of view, that should be doable,
you need to create a dedicated mock configuration file from /etc/mock
that point to the moblin repository. As the mock-rpmfusion*.rpm
maintainer, I would like to see it such tweaked configuration file.

There is also another problem because one of the feature of moblin is
to build everypackage as -march=atom which implies at least -ssse3,
And I'm not sure if our current EL5 builder would support that.

Nicolas (kwizart)