[arch-general] libx264 changes

Leonid Isaev leonid.isaev at jila.colorado.edu
Mon May 8 19:15:31 UTC 2017


On Mon, May 08, 2017 at 05:45:09PM +0000, Carsten Mattner via arch-general wrote:
> On Sun, May 7, 2017 at 6:37 PM, Eli Schwartz via arch-general
> <arch-general at archlinux.org> wrote:
> > On 05/07/2017 02:28 PM, Carsten Mattner via arch-general wrote:
> >> On Sun, May 7, 2017 at 6:11 PM, Doug Newgard <scimmia at archlinux.info> wrote:
> >>> And again, the cycle doesn't matter at all if your ffmpeg package is set up
> >>> correctly.
> >>
> >> I don't understand how I can without additionally repacking libx264/x264,
> >> but hopefully I will see what you're saying later today or tomorrow.
> >
> > What Doug is saying is, you should do what 99.9999999% of all other Arch
> > Linux users creating custom packages to replace repo packages do, and
> > make your forked ffmpeg package provide "ffmpeg", thereby ensuring that
> > libx264/x264 depend on *your* package!
> 
> Is the idea that I create a machine local repo that has highest prio
> and overrides arch extra/testing? Otherwise, I don't know how to unbreak
> the cycle while only building a custom ffmpeg.

I don't understand... testing/libx264 contains /usr/include/x264.h and doesn't
depend on ffmpeg, no?

Cheers,
-- 
Leonid Isaev


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