Kodi

[Sérgio Basto]

On Sáb, 2016-07-23 at 01:21 -0500, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
> On 07/22/2016 11:39 PM, Sérgio Basto wrote:
> > 
> > I saw today, melmorabity built kodi-platform, but packaging kodi
> > is confusing [¹] :
> > 
> > F23 got 16.0
> > F24 got 16.1 , but git is already in 17 alpha
> > F25 build kodi-17.0-0.2.fc25 failed
> > 
> > May I build  16.1 on F23 and respective kodi-platform ?
> > 
> > 
> > [¹]http://koji.rpmfusion.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=103
> I have built 16.1 for F23.
> 
> The rawhide build failed because 17 is now attempting to download
> source during 
> build time. This will fail on koji due to no external network access
> in mock. I hate 
> projects that download source during build time.
> 
> The source being downloaded are modified libdvdnav and libdvdread
> that Kodi needs 
> for optical disc reading. You cannot use upstream libdvdnav,
> libdvdread as there are 
> differing symbols. These modified libraries also require linking with
> libdvdcss at 
> compile time instead of the dynamic loading that the upstream
> versions do. Kodi 
> freezes if you attempt to read a DVD without libdvdcss support. I
> have not pushed a 
> build with libdvdcss support yet as the current discussion about
> RPMFusion carrying 
> this controversial library is still open.
> 
> I'm just shaking my head at Kodi's decision to bundle these modified
> libraries. 
> There is no reason for it. Optical drives haven't changed and
> upstream's version of 
> the libraries were working just fine. Instead of working with
> upstream or just 
> leaving the optical disc support alone we are left in this state.

Maybe we should / could revert to kodi 16.1 in master. 
I merged f24 [1] into master to have all commits in same tree, now we
have to decide if we revert master and f24 or just f24 or not (we go to
kodi 17), for me, you are the maintainer, so you may decided and
whatever you decide is good. Now that we have rawhide and probably we
will have f25 branch, we may plan things more smoothly. 

[1] f24 got kodi 16.1 , but git was already in 17 alpha 1 .

Thanks,
-- 
Sérgio M. B.