Hi all, we have libfaac already packaged http://ftp.blogdrake.net/mageia/mageia1/free/i586/
It's a dependence of cinelerra Cheers 2011/10/17 Joaquin Mandriva <[email protected]> > This package is in: > > ftp://ftp.blogdrake.net/mageia/mageia1/SRPMS/faac-1.28-1bdk.mga1.src.rpm > > You can find a list with this package and much more in: > ftp://ftp.blogdrake.net/incoming/MGA/joaquin/mageia.txt > > Regards. > > > 2011/10/17 Philippe DIDIER <[email protected]> > >> andre999 a écrit : >> > Philippe DIDIER a écrit : >> >> Philippe DIDIER a écrit : >> >> >> >>> Joaquin Mandriva a écrit : >> >>> >> >>>> Hello! >> >>>> >> >>>> My name is Joaquin, belonging to http://blogdrake.net >> >>>> <http://blogdrake.net/> team. I am >> >>>> writing to you because I would like to let you know that we have >> >>>> created a repository with a big amount of good programs for Mageia. >> >>>> Our final target is to upload all of them to the official Mageia's >> >>>> repositories. >> >>>> >> >>>> We are currently uploading all these packages to the Mageia's BS step >> >>>> by step, because there are few people of us to do so. Also, also we >> >>>> don't have too much time because we also take care of Blogdrake, >> >>>> Mageia's news and the translations English to Spanish. >> >>>> >> >>>> Meanwhile, you can use and enjoy our repository in this way: >> >>>> >> >>>> urpmi.addmedia --wget --distrib >> >>>> ftp://ftp.blogdrake.net/mageia/mageia1/i586 >> >>>> >> >>>> The x86_64 repository is not finished yet, but you still can add it >> in >> >>>> this way: >> >>>> >> >>>> urpmi.addmedia --wget --distrib >> >>>> ftp://ftp.blogdrake.net/mageia/mageia1/x86_64 >> >>>> >> >>>> Cheers! >> >>>> >> >>> Hello >> >>> Thanks to you... >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> Just one thing to correct : your repos addresses are : >> >>> ftp://ftp.blogdrake.net/mageia/mageia1/free/i586/ >> >>> ftp://ftp.blogdrake.net/mageia/mageia1/free/x86_64/ >> >>> >> >>> nevertheless I could surf through your repos : >> >>> Some of the rpms you propose reply to rpm requests already done or >> that >> >>> I was going to write (reading my thoughts ?) >> >>> >> >>> :) >> >>> >> >>> First thing I must say : it's a very good idea to upload these >> packages >> >>> to the BS and join the packagers team instead of providing third party >> >>> repos that will soon create compatibility problems (as in the past for >> >>> Mandrake and Mandriva with Thac's or MIB or others) >> >>> >> >>> The second thing is : before uploading them you will have to be >> careful >> >>> with the repos policy (core tainted non-free) >> >>> In your own repo, there is a problematic package : faac (and libfaac0 >> >>> libfaac-devel) which is both non-free and tainted ... >> >>> After long dicussions on the mailing list a meeting decision was not >> to >> >>> provide it at the moment (nor the packages built with it...) >> >>> If a non-free-&-tainted repo is created for Mageia2, in the future, it >> >>> will be then allowed ... wait and see ! >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> >> I was thinking about a workaround to the problem of >> "non-free_&_tainted" >> >> rpms in Mageia >> >> >> >> https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2833 >> >> >> >> Some multimedia programs can't correctly handle files containing aac >> >> sound (*.aac *.mp4 *.m4a) because faac and faac-devel are not provided. >> >> And that's really missing !!! >> >> >> >> >> >> They can't and won't be backported to Mageia1 official repos... >> >> >> >> Perhaps a new "non-free& tainted" repo will exist for Mageia2 >> >> >> >> >> >> Actually for Mageia1 Blogdrake might provide a third repo for this >> dozen >> >> of srpms (even if the existence of third repo is not riskless) >> >> >> >> Picking their last spec file from Mageia, and modifying the plf or >> >> tainted conditionnal building options to allow building with >> >> faac-devel... wouldn't be too much difficult and wouldn't bring much >> >> compatibility problems >> >> >> >> If the version number is the same as in mageia repos, a "twisted" >> >> distsuffix would allow to "update" to them from core or tainted version >> >> (the same way as "tainted" distsuffix allows to update from a core >> >> release) >> >> and wouldn't prevent to update to a core or tainted new version later >> if >> >> provided in official updates repo >> >> >> >> >> >> But... there's the : >> >> https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2317 >> >> would it add other problems to this ? >> >> >> >> But too there wouldn't exist QA for them >> >> >> >> What do you think (on Mageia side and on Blogdrake side) ? >> >> >> > >> > A personal POV from the Mageia side -- >> > It could be a good way to evaluate the need for a Nonfree+Tainted repo, >> > as well as providing a ready source for those interested in such >> packages. >> > >> > Maybe another approach could be to try to separate nonfree and tainted >> > parts, so that either >> > - nonfree packages could optionally use "tainted" packages if installed, >> or >> > - "tainted" packages could optionally use nonfree packages if installed, >> > each in their respective current repos. >> > Which won't work if a particular component is necessarily both nonfree >> > and "tainted". >> That's the problem : we have already tainted packages ... they have been >> built without faac-devel and don't require faac which is both tainted >> and non-free :-( >> If they are built with faac the binaries become non-free (not LGPL) and >> stay tainted ... (they can't be splitted in parts) >> it's true for avidemux, mencoder, handbrake, audiokonverter, and some >> others (the list is in the bug report >> https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2833) >> it's an aporia ! >> I don't want to argue again about the decision for the Mageia's repos ! >> only need to find a way to get working binaries for my purpose... and I >> think I'm not alone to have to work with a quasi standard for multimedia >> files on internet. >> plf allowed that for Mandriva ... >> no third repo allows this for Mageia >> If I'm alone, never mind, I know how to build my own (two lines to >> modify in a spec file and => rpmbuild -ba ... that's all folks! ) >> If newcomers try Mageia and has to be taught how to build a rpm, they >> better will use debian or fedora or ubuntu or opensuse that have quasi >> official third repos for this problem... >> >> > >> > my 2 cents :-) >> > >> my 2 λεπτες >> >> >
