[mythtv] mythffmpeg package?

Richard Shaw hobbes1069 at gmail.com
Sun Oct 28 18:36:29 UTC 2012


On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 11:39 AM, Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com> wrote:
> On 10/28/2012 11:43, Richard Shaw wrote:
>>
>> I'm working towards getting 0.26 released on RPM Fusion and decided to
>> do a diff of the spec file in MythTV/packaging/rpm and mine.
>>
>> They have diverged over time for various reasons but one thing I did
>> add from the upstream spec file is the mythffmpeg sub-package which
>> provides the mythffmpeg binary. Does anything use this? There's no
>> other sub-package that requires it as far as I can tell so I assume it
>> would not get pulled into a standard mythtv install on Fedora.
>
> It is currently used by Mythweb, Nuvexport, and potentially the Perl
> bindings. Is there any reason not to include it with the core package?

No, but it's considered more "right" to have the packages that require
it have it as a explicit requirement instead of counting on the meta
package.

A simple
...
Requires: mythffmpeg
...

in each of the above sub-packages will fix it. If I get a chance I'll
do a pull request on github.

Richard


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