Re: [gentoo-dev] chromium-54 needs ffmpeg-3.0.1

2016-09-01 Thread Alexis Ballier
On Thu, 1 Sep 2016 00:01:16 -0400 Mike Gilbert wrote: > On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 11:09 PM, Mike Gilbert > wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 12:52 PM, Alexis Ballier > > wrote: > >> On Sun, 28 Aug 2016 19:28:48 +0200 > >> "Paweł

Re: [gentoo-dev] chromium-54 needs ffmpeg-3.0.1

2016-08-31 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 11:09 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote: > On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 12:52 PM, Alexis Ballier wrote: >> On Sun, 28 Aug 2016 19:28:48 +0200 >> "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." wrote: >> >>> D. Patch chromium not to require newer

Re: [gentoo-dev] chromium-54 needs ffmpeg-3.0.1

2016-08-31 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 12:52 PM, Alexis Ballier wrote: > On Sun, 28 Aug 2016 19:28:48 +0200 > "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." wrote: > >> D. Patch chromium not to require newer ffmpeg > > > You can use the attached patch. Quick test on youtube showed it works.

Re: [gentoo-dev] chromium-54 needs ffmpeg-3.0.1

2016-08-31 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 1:03 PM, Alexis Ballier wrote: > On Wed, 31 Aug 2016 08:28:14 -0400 > Rich Freeman wrote: >> Sure, but we're talking about a major version here, and a web browser >> where future security updates need to be deployed quickly. You

Re: [gentoo-dev] chromium-54 needs ffmpeg-3.0.1

2016-08-31 Thread Alexis Ballier
On Wed, 31 Aug 2016 08:28:14 -0400 Rich Freeman wrote: > Sure, but we're talking about a major version here, and a web browser > where future security updates need to be deployed quickly. You don't > want to be stuck figuring out what other ffmpeg API calls were touched > in

Re: [gentoo-dev] chromium-54 needs ffmpeg-3.0.1

2016-08-31 Thread Alexis Ballier
On Sun, 28 Aug 2016 19:28:48 +0200 "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." wrote: > D. Patch chromium not to require newer ffmpeg You can use the attached patch. Quick test on youtube showed it works. Index: chromium-54.0.2837.0/media/ffmpeg/ffmpeg_common.cc

Re: [gentoo-dev] chromium-54 needs ffmpeg-3.0.1

2016-08-31 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 8:06 AM, Alexis Ballier wrote: > > For years we've been patching packages to work with >= our latest stable > version of ffmpeg/libav and unbundle it. Even mplayer. Chromium shouldnt > be any exception. > > Patching consumer packages that way has some

Re: [gentoo-dev] chromium-54 needs ffmpeg-3.0.1

2016-08-31 Thread Alexis Ballier
On Wed, 31 Aug 2016 23:36:21 +1200 Kent Fredric wrote: > On Wed, 31 Aug 2016 09:43:08 +0200 > Alexis Ballier wrote: > > > nobody is talking about a premature unmask and even less about > > firefox :) > > Right. My bad on the FF :) ( ffmpeg having FF

Re: [gentoo-dev] chromium-54 needs ffmpeg-3.0.1

2016-08-31 Thread Kent Fredric
On Wed, 31 Aug 2016 09:43:08 +0200 Alexis Ballier wrote: > nobody is talking about a premature unmask and even less about > firefox :) Right. My bad on the FF :) ( ffmpeg having FF in it is clearly perturbing my brain ) But my point really is that *chromium* has end

Re: [gentoo-dev] chromium-54 needs ffmpeg-3.0.1

2016-08-31 Thread Alexis Ballier
On Wed, 31 Aug 2016 03:11:07 +1200 Kent Fredric wrote: > On Tue, 30 Aug 2016 09:37:51 +0200 > Alexis Ballier wrote: > > > Most are fixed, but for me this implies that the space for breaking > > users setup is much wider with bundled ffmpeg... > > But

Re: [gentoo-dev] chromium-54 needs ffmpeg-3.0.1

2016-08-30 Thread Kent Fredric
On Tue, 30 Aug 2016 09:37:51 +0200 Alexis Ballier wrote: > Most are fixed, but for me this implies that the space for breaking > users setup is much wider with bundled ffmpeg... But that fallout is limited to firefox. As opposed to "roll out ffmpeg 3 prematurely" which

Re: [gentoo-dev] chromium-54 needs ffmpeg-3.0.1

2016-08-30 Thread Alexis Ballier
On Tue, 30 Aug 2016 16:33:04 +1200 Kent Fredric wrote: > On Sun, 28 Aug 2016 19:28:48 +0200 > "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." wrote: > > > C. Mask chromium's system-ffmpeg flag when the dependency on > > ffmpeg-3.0.1 can't be satisfied > > I'd pick this option,

Re: [gentoo-dev] chromium-54 needs ffmpeg-3.0.1

2016-08-29 Thread Jason Zaman
On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 11:15:40PM -0400, Mike Gilbert wrote: > On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 3:57 PM, Kristian Fiskerstrand > wrote: > > On 08/28/2016 07:28 PM, Paweł Hajdan, Jr. wrote: > >> B. Backport just the changes needed for chromium to older ffmpeg > > > > Any chance of it

Re: [gentoo-dev] chromium-54 needs ffmpeg-3.0.1

2016-08-29 Thread Kent Fredric
On Sun, 28 Aug 2016 19:28:48 +0200 "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." wrote: > C. Mask chromium's system-ffmpeg flag when the dependency on > ffmpeg-3.0.1 can't be satisfied I'd pick this option, mostly because this is the path that introduces the least amount of space for breaking

Re: [gentoo-dev] chromium-54 needs ffmpeg-3.0.1

2016-08-29 Thread Jason A. Donenfeld
Work on making 3.1.x stable. In the mean time, mask system-ffmpeg.

Re: [gentoo-dev] chromium-54 needs ffmpeg-3.0.1

2016-08-29 Thread Alexis Ballier
On Sun, 28 Aug 2016 19:28:48 +0200 "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." wrote: > See for context. > > chromium-54 is currently hard masked; it'd soon enter ~arch, and then > stable in ~6 weeks. ffmpeg-3.0.1 is currently hard masked. > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] chromium-54 needs ffmpeg-3.0.1

2016-08-28 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 3:57 PM, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote: > On 08/28/2016 07:28 PM, Paweł Hajdan, Jr. wrote: >> B. Backport just the changes needed for chromium to older ffmpeg > > Any chance of it being included upstream or would it be a downstream > carry for a long time?

Re: [gentoo-dev] chromium-54 needs ffmpeg-3.0.1

2016-08-28 Thread Kristian Fiskerstrand
On 08/28/2016 07:28 PM, Paweł Hajdan, Jr. wrote: > See for context. > > chromium-54 is currently hard masked; it'd soon enter ~arch, and then > stable in ~6 weeks. ffmpeg-3.0.1 is currently hard masked. > > These are the options I see for how to