Jason Chu schrieb:
The Packager option wasn't enabled because I was building in a chroot ;)
Should be fixed, the chroots must not break the Packager field in the package.
For a while, a "we need clean build chroots so that our packages are not corrupted" attitude has spread, and this is exactly what broke mplayer (I have no idea which makedepend may be missing though).
I hope you didn't say that in a derisive sort of way. I still think building in chroots is an excellent idea.
Maybe they are, but I was always able to build clean packages without them.
I'm really not trying to be defensive or passive aggressive, but wouldn't it be great if mplayer did have all the makedepends listed properly? Then we could rebuild it in a chroot *and* have all of the features enabled.
It would be great, and I added mesa to makedepends, I hope that will fix this specific problem in the future. However, I still cannot guarantee that it will build properly inside a chroot.
So, next time I won't update mplayer. I'll just be part of the crowd shouting "Rabble rabble rabble rabble".
An even worse idea, I'm glad someone took care of it, as I was terribly unavailable at the time. The post is primarily for documentation, I will add a link to it in the mplayer PKGBUILD and document what must be checked when building it.