[MPlayer-dev-eng] RPM package - features

[Dominik Mierzejewski]

On Monday, 29 April 2002, Alex Beregszaszi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > I know Debian is great, but I'm trying to build a package for RedHat
> > and I can't require a package that is not in the distribution.
> > Well, OK. It *is* on 7.1 Powertools CD, but since you guys require
> > the codecs to be named i.e. vid_iv50.xa and not
> > vid_iv50_1.0_linuxELFx86g21.xa, so there isn't much point anyway, is it?
> User can overwrite codecs.conf, by us vid_*.xa is a symlink. We should
> write this to the documentation too.
> 
> One possible solution would be that adding "joker-char" support to
> codecs.conf parser, e.g.: "vid_iv50_*.xa" and it would use the first
> matching file.
> - in the future -
> 
> The second is to write a little script.

Good point. I can change the paths in codecs.conf using sed or something
similar. Then installing the xanim package from Powertools would be
enough to make it work.

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Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski <rathann(at)rangers.eu.org>