From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mga11.intel.com (mga11.intel.com [192.55.52.93]) by mail.openembedded.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2E096A5A8 for ; Thu, 6 Jun 2013 20:18:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fmsmga002.fm.intel.com ([10.253.24.26]) by fmsmga102.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 06 Jun 2013 13:19:29 -0700 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.87,817,1363158000"; d="scan'208";a="349304480" Received: from unknown (HELO [10.255.13.19]) ([10.255.13.19]) by fmsmga002.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 06 Jun 2013 13:18:50 -0700 Message-ID: <51B0EEA9.1030903@linux.intel.com> Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2013 13:18:49 -0700 From: Saul Wold User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130514 Thunderbird/17.0.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Carlos Rafael Giani References: <1370027758-22849-1-git-send-email-dv@pseudoterminal.org> <51B0BE87.8010807@linux.intel.com> <51B0C431.3040505@pseudoterminal.org> In-Reply-To: <51B0C431.3040505@pseudoterminal.org> Cc: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] GStreamer 1.0 recipes X-BeenThere: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2013 20:18:55 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 06/06/2013 10:17 AM, Carlos Rafael Giani wrote: > On 06.06.2013 18:53, Saul Wold wrote: >> On 05/31/2013 12:15 PM, Carlos Rafael Giani wrote: >>> These patches introduce recipes for GStreamer 1.0 . They >>> are copied over from my gstreamer 1.0 layer at >>> https://github.com/dv1/meta-gstreamer1.0 . All files except >>> gstreamer1.0-plugins-package.inc were copied; gst-plugins-package.inc >>> was patched to fix a problem with -meta packages and can be used for >>> both 0.10 and 1.0 now (the only difference is the value of the LIBV >>> variable). >>> >> So is there an update path from 0.10 to 1.0? Also normally we replace >> the older version with the newer version by "git mv" in order to >> preserve history where possible. I am not sure if you can do this >> with a move and then copy the new versions in. >> >> Since the packages are renamed, and I don's see any >> RPROVIDES/RREPLACES or RCONFLICTS to cover the upgrade path. >> > > Replace? Why do you want to replace? 1.0 is designed to be able to > coexist with 1.0 in the same rootfs (you cannot use both at the same > time in a process; however, this isn't a concern for OE, but for > application developers). In essence, simply adding the new files from > the patch to recipes-multimedia/gstreamer/ should be sufficient. The old > 0.10 ones can be left unchanged. > > One of the core tenants of OE-Core is to only maintain the latest version of a given recipe and have an upgrade path from existing version to the latest version. What I am not sure about is the programs that rely on gstream if all of them are ready for the 1.0. But back to the orignal question, is the gstreamer 1.0 an upgrade path for 0.10 or a completely new gstreamer? Is there an upgrade path? If so, then the packaging needs to reflect that. Sau!