Excerpts from Ng Oon-Ee's message of 2010-09-28 21:06:57 +0200: > On Tue, 2010-09-28 at 20:19 +0200, uli.armbrus...@googlemail.com wrote: > > * Ionuț Bîru <ib...@archlinux.org> [28.09.2010 17:41]: > > > On 09/28/2010 06:39 PM, Samir wrote: > > > > I have a question about Best Practices or... a clean way of handeling > > > > these types of scenarios... > > > > > > > > I've seen this come up with several packages.... > > > > > > > > If I install mplayer and x264 from pacman, but then pull x264-git from > > > > aur, and install that. > > > > > > > > x264 conflicts with x264-git which makes sense.. but then mplayer > > > > suddenly is broken because libx264.so.104. > > > > > > > > Basically mplayer isn't aware that x264-git (which naturally > > > > conflicts with the x264 package). > > > > > > > > Now, to be fair.. mplayer probably should have been linked against > > > > libx264.so rather then libx264.so.104 (-git package provides a > > > > libx264.so.105). > > > > > > > > When I was on a purely from source distro, I'd just force a rebuild of > > > > mplayer and its dependencies...and that would fixed the issue. > > > > > > > > from a user perspective: what's the solution to these types of > > > > situations. (creating a symlink to the .so file doesn't count). > > > > > > > > from a packager perspective: Should we do anything in particular to > > > > take these sorts of situations into account and try to avoid some of > > > > these problems. > > > > > > > > is instructing the user to pull the abs source the solution? > > > > > > > > -- > > > > csgeek > > > > > > use abs to recompile mplayer against x264-git > > and put mplayer into IgnorePkg in the /etc/pacman.conf This way pacman will > > spit out a warning as soon as there's an update available for mplayer, but > > doesn't actually update it. You simply have to wait for this message, build > > mplayer again by yourself with the newer PKGBUILD from abs and you're good. > > Or use bauerbill and set mplayer to automatically compile from abs if > there's an update =)
I'm curious, what can it actually do? Build from ABS, ok, but automatically with my modifications? What about alternative packages only found in AUR?
