Problem with faad2 with F7

[Jesus Jr M Salvo]

On 17/07/07, Jesus Jr M Salvo <jesus.m.salvo at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 17/07/07, Jesus Jr M Salvo <jesus.m.salvo at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 17/07/07, Chris Jones <jonesc at hep.phy.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> > >
> > > > I'm not done it myself, but maybe yum-priorities can do the tricks to
> > > > avoid conflicts from different repo ;-)
> > >
> > > Yes, it can. I'll doing this myself at the moment on my Fedora7 box.
> > >
> > > I have a fair number of external repos enabled (livna, freshrpms, atrpms,
> > > adobe-linux) However, I have only given livna, my 'primary' external repo,
> > > the same priority as the main fedora ones. This means this repo is favored
> > > over the others if a package is available from there (even if the others
> > > have 'newer' ones). I can then use freshrpms and atrpms for the odd few rpms
> > > livna doesn't provide (openafs for intance from atrpms).
> > >
> > > Works very nicely once you have it set up. However, if you are currently in a
> > > dependency mess, you will need to clean that up first by hand before this
> > > using approach - Its no magic 'cleanup' bullet...
> > >
> > > Chris
> > >
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> >
> > The thing that I don't understand is why is livna's faad2 package has
> > release 2.0 ( dated Oct 2006 ), while faad2 package from freshrpm is
> > 2.5 ?
> >
> > If I remove faad-2.5 from freshrpm to install faad-2.0 from livna, I
> > may break other apps that depend on faad-2.5.
> >
> > John
> >
>
> OK ... I bit the bullet and replaced faad2-2.5 with faad2-2.0 on my F7
> installation:
>
> # rpm -Uvh --oldpackage faad2-2.0-19.20050131.lvn6.x86_64.rpm
> Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
>    1:faad2                  ########################################### [100%]
>
>
>
> Now if I upgrade ffmpeg, which it is going to from livna, I still have
> this problem:
>
> # yum update ffmpeg
> Loading "changelog" plugin
> Loading "fastestmirror" plugin
> Loading "installonlyn" plugin
> Setting up Update Process
> Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
> livna                     100% |=========================| 2.1 kB    00:00
> Resolving Dependencies
> --> Running transaction check
> ---> Package ffmpeg.x86_64 0:0.4.9-0.37.20070503.lvn7 set to be updated
> --> Processing Dependency: libavutil.so.49()(64bit) for package: akode-extras
> --> Processing Dependency: libavformat.so.51()(64bit) for package:
> k3b-extras-nonfree
> --> Processing Dependency: libavutil.so.49()(64bit) for package: ffmpeg
> --> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes.
> --> Running transaction check
> ---> Package ffmpeg-libs.x86_64 0:0.4.9-0.37.20070503.lvn7 set to be updated
> --> Processing Dependency: libdts.so.0()(64bit) for package: ffmpeg-libs
> --> Processing Dependency: libx264.so.54()(64bit) for package: ffmpeg-libs
> --> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes.
> --> Running transaction check
> ---> Package libdca.x86_64 0:0.0.2-3.lvn7 set to be updated
> ---> Package ffmpeg-libs.x86_64 0:0.4.9-0.37.20070503.lvn7 set to be updated
> --> Processing Dependency: libx264.so.54()(64bit) for package: ffmpeg-libs
> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> Error: Missing Dependency: libx264.so.54()(64bit) is needed by package
> ffmpeg-libs
>
>
> I still have this missing dependency about libx264.so.54.
>
>


Well ... well... this is strange. The x264 rpm is actually at livna:

http://livna-dl.reloumirrors.net/fedora/7/x86_64/x264-0-0.8.20061028.lvn7.x86_64.rpm


Somehow, yum is not picking it up, or the x264 rpm perhaps does not
"export" the information that it provides libx264.so.54.

John