Codec Buddy misleading.

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Mon Nov 12 18:45:27 UTC 2007


Jeff Spaleta (jspaleta at gmail.com) said: 
> What we could use, is a technical mechanism in how codeina works that
> a 3rd party repository can hook into to add additional codec offerings
> via rpm packages. Once someone installs the livna-release package, it
> would be great if the livna-release package could drop in the
> necessary files on the filesystem so codeina would know how to request
> package installation from livna.

codeina works by reading /usr/share/codeina/xml/available-plugins.xml, which
lists for a particular 'bundle' (i.e., tarball):

- gstreamer element/mime type
- descriptive info
- EULA URI
- arches, sha1sum, etc.
- download link
- price, if needed

To change this list would reqiure respinning codeina. codeina, at the moment,
has no mechanism for installing RPMs or similar packages.

Bill




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