From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 16 19:08:27 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3307BB63; Tue, 16 Sep 2014 19:08:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qa0-x230.google.com (mail-qa0-x230.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400d:c00::230]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C6A15D72; Tue, 16 Sep 2014 19:08:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-qa0-f48.google.com with SMTP id v10so408652qac.7 for ; Tue, 16 Sep 2014 12:08:26 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject :from:to:cc:content-type; bh=0PZ9jvq92n2FUsE+6MvXgjDt1+2cPkIwhb3osjmSMR8=; b=Lloi0SyTlAXycdczOM0ypg1Goqo/Nmjmfxisz0JohtQv0pe3MWckdaI9uHWLyj1FK7 WRaJoh2Aw6JP8il0CxQqNlr0J0lrjnSMa/WgcNl3KR2lYRr66lLm/sH99ULy2OJmeAZG eL05VlcZIZW+xoZocMb6cQyYidl8vCD+d0u/axE4rho3mImAHgIH6C0iYpDTyXZRxzBu 2btZIcyummD5s+2QaUhPRIqD7QTNEr5Fy5uHwIGGRyDp+TGKXg5Fmd8ny1P0h6xvVI7a kCSv/WGtou8veXOcdd1TPTLw4J3lOvD+Y1W/aKCBUzBOL+FCfPG/jLiPylIt2j/TotpG c7QQ== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.140.49.201 with SMTP id q67mr52015793qga.7.1410894505910; Tue, 16 Sep 2014 12:08:25 -0700 (PDT) Sender: william88@gmail.com Received: by 10.140.83.134 with HTTP; Tue, 16 Sep 2014 12:08:25 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <541889F4.7080503@sorbs.net> References: <541889F4.7080503@sorbs.net> Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 16:08:25 -0300 X-Google-Sender-Auth: RpQu0Ea80tJHoCrhVJqQE23Oh0A Message-ID: Subject: Re: Heads up audio/video/graphics/multimedia/net/streaming port maintainers - ACTION REQUIRED From: William Grzybowski To: Michelle Sullivan Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: Thomas Zander , "freebsd-ports@freebsd.org" , multimedia@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 19:08:27 -0000 On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 4:05 PM, Michelle Sullivan wrote: > Thomas Zander wrote: >> I have prepared a drop-in replacement for the ffmpeg port which uses >> the recent 2.4 release. You can download it from: >> http://people.freebsd.org/~riggs/ffmpeg-2.4.tar.xz >> >> Please check whether the ports maintained by you build and link with >> this version and prepare a suitable fix if necessary. >> > > Any reason why you can't create an 'ffmpeg24' port so it can go live > then people can create a a port option to turn on using the later > version - then when the ports are all updated you can just 'switch it to > the default'... that seems to be the way the ports tree has been handled > over the last year. Or create a ffmpeg23 port and switch all ports that cant handle ffmpeg 2.4 to that before it happens. Thats how I handled the ffmpeg 0.x -> ffmpeg 2.x transition. It was very smooth, all things considered :). -- William Grzybowski / wg FreeBSD Ports Committer