Am Montag, 4. Januar 2016, 08:45:23 schrieben Sie: > On Wed, Dec 23, Wolfgang Bauer wrote: > > Can you please re-activate > > vlc-2.1.5-fix-skins2-default-skin-creation.patch in Packman's vlc > > package? > > What does this patch do?
It makes tar being called with the "--format=ustar" parameter when creating the skin archive, to create old-style tar archives without PAX headers. > I think all it does is to make sure that > build-compare will not republish the pkg. But at the same time the patch > was added build-compare was fixed as well to handle tar archives > properly. Did you look at the patch's description? --- New tar defaults create PAX archives which have two problems: * VLC cannot read them * they contain atime and thus the build time Avoid this by passign "--format=ustar" to tar when creating skins2/default.vlt --- The main problem here (and why the patch should be applied) is that VLC cannot read skin archives with a PAX header. > > Without it the included default skin cannot be opened, and vlc even fails > > to start when enabling "Use custom skin" without installing/configuring a > > different skin... > > This must be a differed issue introduced by the fork into PMBS. No. It is caused by not applying that patch. Unpacking /usr/share/vlc/skins2/default.vlt and repacking it with that option fixes the problem. Also, I noticed the same problem in September already (because the patch got "overwritten" by autoreconf): * Wed Sep 02 2015 [email protected] - Modify vlc-2.1.5-fix-skins2-default-skin-creation.patch to patch Makefile.am instead of Makefile.in: autoreconf overwrote the change, making the patch totally ineffective and thus the default skin was broken Kind Regards, Wolfgang _______________________________________________ Packman mailing list [email protected] http://lists.links2linux.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/packman
