[Mageia-dev] on demand installation of gstreamer codecs

Thu Mar 31 01:19:09 CEST 2011

Le mercredi 30 mars 2011 à 23:24 +0200, Luc Menut a écrit :
+> Hi all,
+> 
+> Currently, pk-gstreamer-install is the preferred 
+> gst-install-plugins-helper in update-alternatives and prefer.vendor.list.
+> When it try to install a missing codec, I obtain these messages and it 
+> doesn't install the needed codec.
+> ...
+> ** Message: PackageKit: structure: 
+> gstreamer0.10(decoder-audio/mpeg)(mpegaudioversion=1)(mpegversion=1)(layer=3)()(64bit)
+> ** Message: PackageKit: Did not install codec: Failed to search for provides
+> ...
+> 
+> IIRC, in order to install missing gstreamer codec packages, the 
+> packagekit backend should have the Whatprovides feature, but the urpmi 
+> backend doesn't have this feature yet.
+> http://www.packagekit.org/pk-matrix.html
+> http://gitorious.org/packagekit/packagekit/trees/master/backends/urpmi
+> 
+> Is it planned to have whatprovides in the urpmi backend before the 
+> release of Mageia 1? or should we revert to use codeina? or another 
+> alternative?
+
+IMHO, the work should be done for that. We discussed of this during
+packager meeting
+( http://meetbot.mageia.org/mageia-dev/2011/mageia-dev.2011-01-26-20.03.html ), but no patch were written. I estimated the work to 1 day for someone who know perl and can read perl-URPM documentation, and packagekit one.
+
+-- 
+Michael Scherer
+
+