Gnome 2.6 - which version of gstreamer?

wilburpan · l33t Joined: 21 Jan 2003 Posts: 977

I've been playing around with the Gnome 2.6 prereleases, and currently have Gnome 2.6_rc3 installed on my test computer at home. At this time I'm not using the bmg ebuilds at all. As part of this, gstreamer-0.8.0 and gstreamer-0.8.0-r1 are installed. However, when I do emerge -Dupv world, portage tells me it wants to install gstreamer-0.6.4 and gst-plugins-0.6.4.

What could possibly want an older version of gstreamer/gst-plugins? Also, are these two programs slotted?
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superjaded · l33t Joined: 05 Jul 2002 Posts: 802

When the gnome-base/nautilus-2.6.0 ebuild is emerged with the "gstreamer" USE flag enabled, it creates a dependancy on the 0.6 series for some reason, although logically it should create a dependancy on the 0.8 series.

So, basically, it should be 0.8, but either the ebuild maintainer didn't update the ebuild to pull it in or there's some other extenuating circumstance that makes him not want to depend on 0.8.

And yes, gstreamer and gst-plugins are slotted; you can have 0.6 and 0.8 installed at the same time.

wilburpan · l33t Joined: 21 Jan 2003 Posts: 977

Thanks for the tip -- it looks like the culprit might be the nautilus-2.6-icon_view_gst_audio_preview.patch.

I filed a bug on the Gentoo Bugzilla -- it's bug #45620.
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ecatmur · Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2004 6:44 pm Post subject:

The API of gstreamer 0.6 and gstreamer 0.8 is different, so until the patch is updated to use gstreamer 0.8 (which has only just had a stable release) gstreamer 0.6 will still be required.

joem · Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2004 10:10 pm Post subject:

Ricky · Guru Joined: 30 May 2003 Posts: 341

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wilburpan · l33t Joined: 21 Jan 2003 Posts: 977

That's the vexing thing -- at the time that I was puzzling over this, none of the other packages that were listed for updating had a gstreamer dependency.

From the discussion in my bug report, it does appear that it's not nautlius that is causing this behavior. The computer that I'm having this problem with is one that I use primarily for testing*, and I don't have any computer related things to do with this machine over the weekend, so I'm considering unemerging all of gnome-2.6.0_rc3, reemerging it, and seeing if it happens again.

* To give you an idea, my ultimate goal is to convert this computer from using KDE to gnome-2.6 and the freedesktop.org xserver (not xorg).

Needless to say, this is not something I want to do with my work laptop right off the bat.
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wilburpan · l33t Joined: 21 Jan 2003 Posts: 977

Unemerging gnome and its dependencies, and reemerging seemed to fix this issue.
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ecatmur · Posted: Sat Mar 27, 2004 3:03 am Post subject:

The dep in the nautilus ebuild is a >= not a = dep. Also note that the deps of a package are solely those specified in the ebuild and in any eclasses it inherits; there is no magic involved.

As foser suggests in the bug, there are no ebuilds in the portage tree with a =gstreamer-0.6* dep; as he also suggests, there damn well should be, as many applications still rely on gstreamer 0.6.

This does however make it odd that this behaviour could have occurred.