[arch-general] AIF-NG (feedback/Request for Comments)

2017-05-07 Thread brent s.
Hello! Some of you may remember AIF (Arch Installation Framework). However, the project is dead ([0]) and has been for quite some time. Being that most major distributions have a way of installing their distribution in an unattended manner/via PXE: -Debian (and derivatives, incl. Ubuntu): presee

Re: [arch-general] libx264 changes

2017-05-07 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
On 05/07/2017 02:28 PM, Carsten Mattner via arch-general wrote: > On Sun, May 7, 2017 at 6:11 PM, Doug Newgard wrote: >> And again, the cycle doesn't matter at all if your ffmpeg package is set up >> correctly. > > I don't understand how I can without additionally repacking libx264/x264, > but ho

Re: [arch-general] libx264 changes

2017-05-07 Thread Carsten Mattner via arch-general
On Sun, May 7, 2017 at 6:11 PM, Doug Newgard wrote: > On Sun, 7 May 2017 18:05:16 + > Carsten Mattner via arch-general wrote: > >> On Sun, May 7, 2017 at 4:45 PM, Doug Newgard wrote: >> > So what? None of that should cause a problem if your custom >> > ffmpeg package is done correctly. >> >>

Re: [arch-general] libx264 changes

2017-05-07 Thread Doug Newgard
On Sun, 7 May 2017 18:05:16 + Carsten Mattner via arch-general wrote: > On Sun, May 7, 2017 at 4:45 PM, Doug Newgard wrote: > > So what? None of that should cause a problem if your custom > > ffmpeg package is done correctly. > > I have to override/repackage two packages now that x264.h i

Re: [arch-general] libx264 changes

2017-05-07 Thread Carsten Mattner via arch-general
On Sun, May 7, 2017 at 4:45 PM, Doug Newgard wrote: > On Sun, 7 May 2017 16:36:43 + > Carsten Mattner via arch-general wrote: > >> On Sun, May 7, 2017 at 3:01 PM, Doug Newgard wrote: >> > On Sun, 7 May 2017 14:51:08 + >> > Carsten Mattner via arch-general wrote: >> > >> >> For various r

Re: [arch-general] libx264 changes

2017-05-07 Thread Doug Newgard
On Sun, 7 May 2017 16:36:43 + Carsten Mattner via arch-general wrote: > On Sun, May 7, 2017 at 3:01 PM, Doug Newgard wrote: > > On Sun, 7 May 2017 14:51:08 + > > Carsten Mattner via arch-general wrote: > > > >> For various reasons like missing features and wrong version > >> I cannot

Re: [arch-general] libx264 changes

2017-05-07 Thread Carsten Mattner via arch-general
On Sun, May 7, 2017 at 2:57 PM, Lin DasSarma <_...@umbc.edu> wrote: > Carsten, > > What about a custom ffmpeg PKGBUILD instead? That's what I've been doing which got complicated now that x264.h is not in libx264 but x264 and x264 depends on ffmpeg for presumably muxing. We have more than two x264

Re: [arch-general] libx264 changes

2017-05-07 Thread Carsten Mattner via arch-general
On Sun, May 7, 2017 at 3:01 PM, Doug Newgard wrote: > On Sun, 7 May 2017 14:51:08 + > Carsten Mattner via arch-general wrote: > >> For various reasons like missing features and wrong version >> I cannot use arch's ffmpeg package and have to build my own >> package, and this results in a cycli

Re: [arch-general] libx264 changes

2017-05-07 Thread Doug Newgard
On Sun, 7 May 2017 14:51:08 + Carsten Mattner via arch-general wrote: > For various reasons like missing features and wrong version > I cannot use arch's ffmpeg package and have to build my own > package, and this results in a cyclic dependency I cannot > get out of. What, exactly, is the is

Re: [arch-general] libx264 changes

2017-05-07 Thread Lin DasSarma
Carsten, What about a custom ffmpeg PKGBUILD instead? Lin On 7 May 2017 at 10:51, Carsten Mattner via arch-general < arch-general@archlinux.org> wrote: > Since the libx264 package does not include /usr/include > and it's in x264 now, and because x264 depends on ffmpeg, > I cannot use libx264 wi

[arch-general] libx264 changes

2017-05-07 Thread Carsten Mattner via arch-general
Since the libx264 package does not include /usr/include and it's in x264 now, and because x264 depends on ffmpeg, I cannot use libx264 without also installing ffmpeg. For various reasons like missing features and wrong version I cannot use arch's ffmpeg package and have to build my own package, an