Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2009 14:23:29 -0600 (CST) From: "Sean C. Farley" <scf@FreeBSD.org> To: Michal Varga <varga.michal@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: mplayer from SVN Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0912291419160.28325@thor.farley.org> In-Reply-To: <3f1fd1ea0912291213m6ce8ddekb96c9ec5623bcca4@mail.gmail.com> References: <20091211232021.4a316c65@wizard.volgograd.ru> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0912130841040.19087@ibyngvyr.purzvxnyf.bet> <4B37F4EF.3080802@googlemail.com> <20091228084713.20636gkfm1jsoh44@econet.encontacto.net> <4B38F3BB.3020303@fstaals.net> <20091229143152.l2g246ti808w8cw0@0x20.net> <4B3A44DF.6080904@fstaals.net> <3f1fd1ea0912291103q41c5731av7463994ff9d071dc@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0912291358020.28325@thor.farley.org> <3f1fd1ea0912291213m6ce8ddekb96c9ec5623bcca4@mail.gmail.com>
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This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. --56599777-1023993077-1262118209=:28325 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT On Tue, 29 Dec 2009, Michal Varga wrote: > On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 9:03 PM, Sean C. Farley <scf@freebsd.org> wrote: >> I am jumping randomly into the thread. >> >> If we want to use some type of "release" for MPlayer based upon a >> snapshot from svn, how about using the same snapshot as used in >> Fedora (actually RPM Fusion)[1]? It has the advantages of already >> being created, tested(?) and easier to track bugs that users of >> Fedora may have already faced. >> > This is an interesting idea, though there may be one issue. Do we know > how Fedora people create those snapshots? Let's say, hypothetically, > there are two different output drivers in mplayer's SVN tree - let's > name them CoolOutput_Linux and CoolOutput_BSD. Can we be sure that > Fedora guys simply don't strip out the parts that they can't/will > never use, so we end up with a snapshot package that lacks > CoolOutput_BSD? In the source RPM, there is the script they use to generate the tar file. There are also a few patches in the RPM separate from the tar file. It looked like the tar file is missing a few pieces of libraries distributed separately. We probably already have (some of) them in the ports tree. I only glanced at the file; I did not inhale. :) Sean -- scf@FreeBSD.org --56599777-1023993077-1262118209=:28325--
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