On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 05:40:51PM -0500, Temlakos wrote: > On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 21:11:28 +0100, Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 12:14:03PM -0500, Temlakos wrote: > > > On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 17:28 +0100, Axel Thimm wrote: > > > OK, I just enabled at-stable. And immediately it wants to remove > > > libpostproc (the video processing library for mplayer) and rpmlibs, in > > > order to upgrade mplayer (and family) and apt, respectively. What's > > > going on here? > > > > It shouldn't remove, but replace them with ffmpeg and librpm43, right? > > > > libpostproc moved from mplayer to ffmpeg (rather at the same time > > mplayer started hosting ffmpeg's CVS), so effectively ffmpeg swallowed > > libpostproc, and %{_libdir}/libpostproc* belong to ffmpeg now. > > > > Wrt to rpm-libs: ATrpms provides rpm upgrades for older Red Hat/Fedora > > Core releases since a couple of years. In order to not break > > dependencies librpmXX packages are created (like to ones Red Hat > > itself created some time ago). rpm-libs itself is missing the version > > info in comparison to prior rpm releases, and will also be removed in > > the near future: > > > > https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/rpm-devel/2004-September/000068.html > > > > But these topics are probably more relevant for ATrpms-users, I guess :) > > Thanks for clarifying. > > It took several tries, but now I'm using at-stable, dag, dries, and > freshrpms. (I abandoned newrpms, as that's a testing repo itself, as > its keeper freely admits.) The new libraries for mplayer work fine--I > tested mplayer against a wide variety of videos (after grabbing the bz > tarball containing the codecs!), and it played them flawlessly. There is also an rpm for this job, but it isn't depended upon, since its an opt-in. > I also have yum configured to use your repo. (When are you going to > write appropriate lines for up2date? Or do you not want to risk that > now?) You mean installation instructions? You can use # # atrpms # Fedora Core 3 - x86_64 - ATrpms # alternatives to stable: testing and bleeding # apt atrpms http://apt.atrpms.net fedora/3/en/x86_64 at-stable -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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