GStreamer packaging

Thomas Vander Stichele thomas at apestaart.org
Thu Mar 18 18:58:39 UTC 2004


Hi,

Warren asked me to send a mail to the list for comments from people who
are interested.

I work on and package GStreamer.  I released 0.8.0 this week, and
rebuilt the suite of our modules, as well as rebuilt compatibility
packages for 0.6

As you might know, GStreamer is parallel-installable between different
major/minor versions.

Anyways, because GStreamer is quite complex for packaging (for example,
it can use, but is not forced to use, over 40 libraries), I wrote up
some packaging guidelines which I sent to some of our packagers, and
which Warren asked me to send here too.  They are attached.  If someone
who is interested would like to read through it and comment on it,
that'd be nice.

The repository of these packages, made to work with www.fedora.us and
rpm.livna.org, is documented at
http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/download/fedora.html

If anyone wants to give it a try and report experiences to me, that'd be
nice too.  Make sure you remove dependencies and packages from other
repositories, as well as gstreamer-plugin-mp3 if you have it (it is
provided by another package).

I have also submitted the fedora.us packages of GStreamer.  They could
use some help in going through Q&A due to the interlinked nature of
these packages.  I'd like them to get through as quickly as possible, so
I can then provide the other packages to rpm.livna.org.

Relevant bugzilla links are
https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=1389
https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=1390
https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=1391
https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=1392

I might not immediately reply as I'm on holiday next week, but will get
in touch.

Thanks in advance,

Thomas

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