[MPlayer-dev-eng] mplayer and installation

[Ivan Kalvatchev]

--- Gábor Lénárt <lgb at lgb.hu> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 02:23:26PM +0100, Felix
> Buenemann wrote:
> > On Friday, 21. December 2001 12:22, you wrote:
> > > There's a big problem about this installation.
> Let's imagine that user do
> > > 'make install' as root to be able to install
> mplayer into /usr/local/bin.
> > > Now, if from an older install codecs.conf
> already presents in user's
> > > $HOME/.mplayer, that's cannot be checked by
> installation script, it will
> > > only know that
> /usr/local/share/mplayer/codecs.conf exists or not.
> So it's
> > > almost impossible to produce a good solution for
> that problem ;-(
> > How about a version string in codecs.conf, so
> configure and mplayer could 
> > check if codecs.conf is valid (if codecs_version <
> 123 
> 
> Well, what about if user change codecs.conf? He left
> version string but he
> spent hours to change orders of codecs and so to fit
> his needs. We should
> not overwrite it. Maybe we should ask user if we can
> overwrite it.

No, the idea is mplayer's make install to upgrade only
the global codecs.conf, the user edited codecs.conf
will be in it's home directory. And mplayer will only
warn when there is newer one. In this point it is
useless to have versioning.

Best Regards
  Ivan Kalvachev

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