ffmpeg for EL7

[Orion Poplawski]

On 08/25/2016 02:01 AM, Nicolas Chauvet wrote:
> 2016-08-24 20:19 GMT+02:00 Orion Poplawski <orion at cora.nwra.com>:
>> One suggestion that's been getting more traction on the EPEL side of things is
>> to just start with versioned packages that can co-exist.  So start with
>> ffmpeg2.8 and ffmpeg3.0 from the start.
> 
> I don't quite understand the proposition related to ffmpeg. Using
> version in name doesn't seem to say which one should be chosen by
> default for link.
> Specially as ffmpeg doesn't do symbol version, if one process has
> dependencies using both version, it will crash.
> Also ffmpeg as a 3month release cycle, does it mean a new review each time ?

Well, Fedora has basically gone to rubber-stamping versioned packages that are
based on existing ones.  This seems pretty reasonable to me.  It also may not
make sense to package all versions.  Only the ones that get a lot of uptake
from other users.

> Using ffmpeg/ffmpeg-compat or ffmpeg-compat28 means to use ffmpeg by
> default then ffmpeg-compat28 (with only libs) for the few projects
> that needs it.

The problem is that at some point you will need to update "ffmpeg", and this
will be painful.  Avoiding it completely helps with that.

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