[Bug 220931] Review Request: ZoneMinder - Linux CCTV package

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Summary: Review Request: ZoneMinder - Linux CCTV package


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=220931


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------- Additional Comments From fedora at ebourne.me.uk  2006-12-28 18:47 EST -------
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Package name:

I've called the package ZoneMinder because this is the name of the program (as
used generally and as per configure.in) and the name of the tarball. However,
the original is a bit schizophrenic and variously puts things in subdirectores
called ZoneMinder, or just zm. The init script in the tarball is just called zm.
I've gone along with what the tarball uses where possible.

For further confusion there are older ZoneMinder RPM packages around just called
zm, but these have been inaccessible for some months and were never in a fedora
repo.

I personally would prefer to call it zoneminder but nothing else really uses
that. I'm up for any suggestions on this one though.

Conflicts:

Because of the old zm package some people have installed I've marked this
package as conflicts: zm. I originally tried obsoletes but the old zm package
does rm -rf /var/lib/zm in postun which is very antisocial and I didn't want
this to happen accidentally to anyone.

X10:

This package does not include the X10 option since it needs the perl X10 module.
If this is accepted I'll look into packaging that as well, then add a
ZoneMinder-X10 subpackage.

FFMPEG:

This package is built without mpeg. Quote from the ZoneMinder manual:
  'ZoneMinder can generate MPEG videos if necessary, for this you'll need either
ffmpeg (recommended) or the Berkeley MPEG encoder (mpeg_encode). If you don't
have either, don't worry, as the options will be hidden and you'll not really
miss too much.'

The builtin jpeg streaming works perfectly well and is more portable than mpeg.
I've not used the mpeg support in over a year of using ZoneMinder.

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