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.
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