On Thursday 05 April 2012 09:16:20 Pascal Bleser wrote: > JFYI, been working on vlc 2.0 the past few days. > I obviously started from dimstar's spec file but made a few > adjustments to build properly on all our distros in Essential, > and also enabled libtar support. > > Hence I had to package a few things only for SLE_11, SLE-11-SP2, > and sometimes for Evergreen_11.1 or 11.2 in order to have all > the dependencies (those packages are named libxxx-for-sle or > libxxx-for-older-than-11.4, etc... in Essentials). > > vlc >= 2.0 won't build for SLE_11 though, as it requires qt4 >= > 4.6, but I'll keep vlc 1.1.x for SLE_11 only in > Essentials/vlc-old. > > phonon-backend-vlc builds just fine with vlc-2.0.1 (just needs a > few changes to the spec file as it currently requires vlc < > 1.2). I can't test it myself, but I'll submit the changes and if > people notice that phonon-backend-vlc is broken at runtime, > I'll see what I can do, but that would essentially mean prodding > the phonon-backend-vlc upstream devs (which is going to be fun > for something that seems to be unmaintained, so let's hope it > just works.) > > I've just submitted vlc 2.0.1 to replace vlc 1.1.x in > Essentials/vlc. > > Please report issues at upstream first, as this is a fairly > standard build of vlc with only very few patches, unless it's > clearly a packaging issue. > If you don't know whether it's a packaging issue, it's not, and > do report upstream :) > > I personally hate _service files with a vengeance, but I'm using > it in this case, as vlc-2.0.1.tar.xz is 17MB ^^ > > It is going to take some time to build, including all the > dependencies, but it should hit the mirrors in a few hours (some > mirrors pull every hour, some only every four hours), or be > available by tomorrow at worst. > > cheers
I have been running the old phonon-backend-vlc against vlc 2.0 ignoring the dependency conflict, and I haven't seen any problems. _______________________________________________ Packman mailing list Packman@links2linux.de http://lists.links2linux.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/packman