[Mageia-dev] on demand installation of gstreamer codecs

[Michael Scherer]

Le mercredi 30 mars 2011 à 23:24 +0200, Luc Menut a écrit :
> Hi all,
> 
> Currently, pk-gstreamer-install is the preferred 
> gst-install-plugins-helper in update-alternatives and prefer.vendor.list.
> When it try to install a missing codec, I obtain these messages and it 
> doesn't install the needed codec.
> ...
> ** Message: PackageKit: structure: 
> gstreamer0.10(decoder-audio/mpeg)(mpegaudioversion=1)(mpegversion=1)(layer=3)()(64bit)
> ** Message: PackageKit: Did not install codec: Failed to search for provides
> ...
> 
> IIRC, in order to install missing gstreamer codec packages, the 
> packagekit backend should have the Whatprovides feature, but the urpmi 
> backend doesn't have this feature yet.
> http://www.packagekit.org/pk-matrix.html
> http://gitorious.org/packagekit/packagekit/trees/master/backends/urpmi
> 
> Is it planned to have whatprovides in the urpmi backend before the 
> release of Mageia 1? or should we revert to use codeina? or another 
> alternative?

IMHO, the work should be done for that. We discussed of this during
packager meeting
( http://meetbot.mageia.org/mageia-dev/2011/mageia-dev.2011-01-26-20.03.html ), but no patch were written. I estimated the work to 1 day for someone who know perl and can read perl-URPM documentation, and packagekit one.

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Michael Scherer