[Mageia-dev] ffmpeg in mageia1 updates testing (revision 171164)

Philippe DIDIER philippedidier at laposte.net
Thu Nov 24 13:52:14 CET 2011


Funda Wang a écrit :
> Yes, new x264 introduces new libmajor, which requires a mass
> rebuilding of other packages.
> 
> 2011/11/24 Philippe DIDIER <philippedidier at laposte.net>:
>> To Funda :
>>        you modified the spec file of ffmpeg :
>>
>> disable x264 support as x264 is too old in mageia 1
>>
>>
>>
>> This may induce a regression (a missing feature)
>>
>> Why not to update libx264 before updating ffmpeg, and by this way allow
>> to keep x264 support enabled ?
>>
>> Is there a problem for other programs depending on libx264 if you update
>> it ? (need to rebuild them ?)
>>
>> Regards
>> Philippe
>>
>>
> 
heavy dilemma ! heavy choice !
- let ffmpeg not updated (with x264 support but with security problem)
- update ffmpeg disabling x264 support
- update ffmpeg keeping x264 support but need to rebuild mass of
packages (not alone !!!!) and provide lots of updated rpms to QA !










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