[gentoo-user] gstreamer

[gentoo-user] gstreamer

[Ted Ozolins]

I have both gstreamer-0.8 and -0.10 on my system. -0.8 is no longer in 
portage. Revdep-rebuild complains about several packages as broken and 
require gstreamer-0.8. I tried following:
> http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Troubleshooting_Gstreamer

Can I emerge -C =media-libs/gstreamer-0.8 without borking my system?
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Re: [gentoo-user] gstreamer

[Stroller]

On 1 Apr 2008, at 05:44, Ted Ozolins wrote:

> I have both gstreamer-0.8 and -0.10 on my system. -0.8 is no longer  
> in portage. Revdep-rebuild complains about several packages as  
> broken and require gstreamer-0.8. I tried following:
>> http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Troubleshooting_Gstreamer
>
> Can I emerge -C =media-libs/gstreamer-0.8 without borking my system?

I would _imagine_ so.
I'd expect that if you were to remove 0.8 then revdep-rebuild would  
then allow the packages to be rebuilt linked against the late version.

However, to be sure that these packages don't have a depends that  
specifies < 0.9 it might be worth telling use which packages are broken?
I take it you can't emerge -1 each of these packages separately?

Stroller.
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Re: [gentoo-user] gstreamer

[Alan McKinnon]

On Tuesday 01 April 2008, Ted Ozolins wrote:
> I have both gstreamer-0.8 and -0.10 on my system. -0.8 is no longer
> in portage. Revdep-rebuild complains about several packages as broken
> and
>
> require gstreamer-0.8. I tried following:
> > http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Troubleshooting_Gstreamer
>
> Can I emerge -C =media-libs/gstreamer-0.8 without borking my system?

Please post the output of revdep-rebuild -p -i

Do these various packages require specifically gstreamer-0.8? If so, 
that is a bug and should be rpeorted at b.g.o. In general, unmerging 
gstreamer-0.8 will cause other things linked to it to now not work, so 
I reckon you will suffer some fallout if you just unmerge it.

A good safety net will be to look into the portage cache in /var/db/pkg, 
you will find a copy of the current gstreamer-0.8 ebuild you are using 
there. Copy it to your local overlay so you can remerge it if 
necessary. Do the same with any plugins that are also not in portage 
anymore

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Re: [gentoo-user] gstreamer (solved "sort of")

[Ted Ozolins]

Alan McKinnon wrote:

> 
> Please post the output of revdep-rebuild -p -i
> 
> Do these various packages require specifically gstreamer-0.8? If so, 
> that is a bug and should be rpeorted at b.g.o. In general, unmerging 
> gstreamer-0.8 will cause other things linked to it to now not work, so 
> I reckon you will suffer some fallout if you just unmerge it.
> 
> A good safety net will be to look into the portage cache in /var/db/pkg, 
> you will find a copy of the current gstreamer-0.8 ebuild you are using 
> there. Copy it to your local overlay so you can remerge it if 
> necessary. Do the same with any plugins that are also not in portage 
> anymore
> 
Thank you all for the replies, greatly appreciated.

Having followed your recommendations I found thet :
emerge -Cp gstreamer showed only gstreamer-0.10. No matter what I tried, 
no way of unmerging -0.8.. I then added search mask in make.conf so that 
   revdep-rebuild does not search /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.8 and finally 
removed 0.8 manually. I've had to rebuild a couple of packages (for now) 
and all seems to be fine except I can no longer run tvtime, kdetv nor xawtv.

xawtv reports:
This is xawtv-3.95, running on Linux/i686 (2.6.23-gentoo-r9)
WARNING: v4l-conf is compiled without DGA support.
/dev/video0 [v4l2]: no overlay support
v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway
Warning: Cannot convert string 
"-*-ledfixed-medium-r-*--39-*-*-*-c-*-*-*" to type FontStruct
libGL warning: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x4b
game over
kdetv reports nothing and I can not stop the process. Even using top and 
  "k" followed by PID of kdetv.

I'm sure I have to rebuild something, just not quite sure what.

I've re-emerged all three with no change. Where do I look?
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Re: [gentoo-user] gstreamer (solved "sort of")

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Wed, 02 Apr 2008 08:12:27 -0600, Ted Ozolins wrote:

> Having followed your recommendations I found thet :
> emerge -Cp gstreamer showed only gstreamer-0.10. No matter what I
> tried, 

Unless you tell it otherwise, emerge always tries to operate on the
latest version of a package. You need "emerge -C
media-libs/gstreamer-0.8". Even though you have manually removed the
files, you should still run this to clean up your package database.


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Re: [gentoo-user] gstreamer (solved "sort of")

[Ted Ozolins]

Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Wed, 02 Apr 2008 08:12:27 -0600, Ted Ozolins wrote:
> 
>> Having followed your recommendations I found thet :
>> emerge -Cp gstreamer showed only gstreamer-0.10. No matter what I
>> tried, 
> 
> Unless you tell it otherwise, emerge always tries to operate on the
> latest version of a package. You need "emerge -C
> media-libs/gstreamer-0.8". Even though you have manually removed the
> files, you should still run this to clean up your package database.
> 
> 
Tried that and emerge reported no package to be removed. emerge -Cp 
gstreamer shows only -0.10

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Re: [gentoo-user] gstreamer (solved "sort of")

[Ted Ozolins]

Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Wed, 02 Apr 2008 08:12:27 -0600, Ted Ozolins wrote:
> 
>> Having followed your recommendations I found thet :
>> emerge -Cp gstreamer showed only gstreamer-0.10. No matter what I
>> tried, 
> 
> Unless you tell it otherwise, emerge always tries to operate on the
> latest version of a package. You need "emerge -C
> media-libs/gstreamer-0.8". Even though you have manually removed the
> files, you should still run this to clean up your package database.
> 
> 
Tried that and emerge reported no package to be removed. emerge -Cp 
gstreamer shows only -0.10

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Re: [gentoo-user] gstreamer (solved)

[Ted Ozolins]

After rebuilding a few packages, this system is up to par. The package 
that was causing tvtime and others to miss-behave was xf86-video-v4l.

Thank you all for your replies.

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Re: [gentoo-user] gstreamer

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 22:44:15 -0600, Ted Ozolins wrote:

> I have both gstreamer-0.8 and -0.10 on my system. -0.8 is no longer in 
> portage. Revdep-rebuild complains about several packages as broken and 
> require gstreamer-0.8. I tried following:
> > http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Troubleshooting_Gstreamer  
> 
> Can I emerge -C =media-libs/gstreamer-0.8 without borking my system?

As it is no longer in portage, copy the ebuild from /var/db/pkg to your
overlay, then quickpkg it before you unmerge anything.

It will only have been removed for portage if nothing else in there
depends on it, so unmerge it (after doing the above) then run
revdep-rebuild followed by emerge -uavD world.


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