[HLUG] Source RPMs

[Jeff Tupholme]

Hi,

Yes, thanks, that is one option. This is partly an experiment, but I  
would like to maintain the advantages of using the package manager if  
possible as I've used that for installing everything else - being  
able to see what's there, dependency and upgrade tracking and so on.


Regards,

Jeff


On 15 Jan 2007, at 11:47pm, Andrew Hodgson wrote:

> Hi,
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: herefordshire-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk
> [mailto:herefordshire-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Jeff
> Tupholme
> Sent: 15 January 2007 23:19
> To: Herefordshire Linux Users Group.
> Subject: [HLUG] Source RPMs
>
>> Hi all,
>
>> I believe most people are running Ubuntu but I still have a couple of
>> machines running a Red Hat variant (Yellow Dog). That uses RPM for
>> its package management. I want to add a couple of additional codecs
>> to ffmpeg that are only available in source form, so I thought I
>> would try to incorporate them into the source RPM (SRPM). I believe I
>> can unpack the SRPM and add the extra directories in before building;
>> the ffmpeg Makefile is supposed to notice them and roll them in.
>
> If you are downloading the source for the encoder and this is not  
> in RPM
> form, could you not just build the hole thing starting from extracting
> the source RPM of the ffmpeg package then making it manually (after
> modifying the relevant directories to include the additional codecs of
> course)?  Look at the spec of the package also to see what extra  
> things
> are getting rolled in on an install (patches and the like) before  
> doing
> the final ``make''.
>
> I never have much luck trying to build packages from scratch after
> modifying them, so have always done it this way (though never on the
> ffmpeg package - as I don't use sound on Linux).
>
> Hope I haven't missed anything too obvious.
>
> Andrew.