Re: Fedora 34 Change: Route all Audio to PipeWire (System-Wide Change)

[Tom Seewald]

> Dne 24. 11. 20 v 15:15 Vít Ondruch napsal(a):
>
> Just FTR, this is the situation on Rawhide:
> $ sudo dnf swap pulseaudio pipewire-pulseaudio
> Last metadata expiration check: 0:03:54 ago on Mon Nov 23 23:14:58 2020.
> Error:
>   Problem 1: problem with installed package 
> pulseaudio-module-x11-13.99.3-1.fc34.x86_64
>    - package pulseaudio-module-x11-13.99.3-1.fc34.x86_64 requires 
> libprotocol-native.so()(64bit), but none of the providers can be installed
>    - package pulseaudio-module-x11-13.99.3-1.fc34.x86_64 requires 
> libpulsecore-13.99.so()(64bit), but none of the providers can be installed
>    - package pulseaudio-module-x11-13.99.3-1.fc34.x86_64 requires 
> pulseaudio(x86-64) = 13.99.3-1.fc34, but none of the providers can be 
> installed
>    - conflicting requests
>   Problem 2: problem with installed package 
> pulseaudio-module-bluetooth-13.99.3-1.fc34.x86_64
>    - package pulseaudio-module-bluetooth-13.99.3-1.fc34.x86_64 requires 
> libpulsecore-13.99.so()(64bit), but none of the providers can be installed
>    - package pulseaudio-module-bluetooth-13.99.3-1.fc34.x86_64 requires 
> pulseaudio(x86-64) = 13.99.3-1.fc34, but none of the providers can be 
> installed
>    - package pipewire-pulseaudio-0.3.16-3.fc34.x86_64 conflicts with 
> pulseaudio provided by pulseaudio-13.99.3-1.fc34.x86_64
>    - conflicting requests
> (try to add '--allowerasing' to command line to replace conflicting 
> packages or '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages)
>
>
> $ sudo dnf swap pulseaudio pipewire-pulseaudio --allowerasing
>
> Last metadata expiration check: 0:04:54 ago on Mon Nov 23 23:14:58 2020.
> Error:
>   Problem: The operation would result in removing the following 
> protected packages: gnome-shell
> (try to add '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages)
>
>
> $ sudo dnf remove pulseaudio-module-x11
> Dependencies resolved.
> ===================================================================================================================================================================================================================
>   Package Architecture Version 
> Repository                                     Size
> ===================================================================================================================================================================================================================
> Removing:
>   pulseaudio-module-x11 x86_64 13.99.3-1.fc34 
> @rawhide                                       78 k
>
> Transaction Summary
> ===================================================================================================================================================================================================================
> Remove  1 Package
>
> Freed space: 78 k
> Is this ok [y/N]: ^COperation aborted.
>
> $ sudo dnf remove pulseaudio-module-bluetooth
>
> Error:
>   Problem: The operation would result in removing the following 
> protected packages: gnome-shell
> (try to add '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages)

I've filed a bug report for this: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1900876

I think this definitely needs to be resolved quickly if this proposal is to go forward, otherwise the already small testing window will be even more narrow.