[packman] Packman for Tumbleweed

Olaf Hering olaf at aepfle.de
Mon Jun 20 12:02:09 CEST 2016


On Mon, Jun 20, Richard Brown wrote:

> Packman's current model for Tumbleweed, building against
> multimedia:libs and not Tumbleweed, means that Packman users get
> packages of the NEXT version of ffmpeg, gstreamer, etc, BEFORE it is
> ready for Tumbleweed

Regarding gstreamer, I wonder what kind of testing is done. Can it do
anything useful in the variant from OBS? Looking at the spec files, only
-bad and -ugly rely on packman.

> This causes disruption, pain, heartache, and I've now lost track of
> the amount of times it's broken GNOME applications that used
> gstreamer.

That would have been valueable information actually, especially for this
thread.

Olaf




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