[Slackbuilds-users] About ffmpeg version 2.3

[Luiz Ramos]

Hello,

my name is Luiz Ramos. This is my first post at this mailing list. I really don't know if this is a proper subject for this mailing list, but please forgive me if I'm wrong.

I am a user of Slackware and SlackBuilds, and sometimes I'd find something to change in some package.

This was the case of ffmpeg. I use to track upstream for the latest version (today's is 2.3.2), and usually download it and use the current slackbuild script (today it's for version 2.1.1) to build a package, using something like 'su -c "VERSION=v.v.v sh package.SlackBuild". Usually it works. But ffmpeg upstream developers made slight changes starting in version 2.3, and those changes is the subject I'd like to talk about.

In sum, they modified the names of some files (e.g, "INSTALL.md" for the older "INSTALL"), and changed the location of one file, "RELEASE_NOTES". Some slight changes in some copy commands were sufficient to make the script work again. Also, this new script was made compatible with versions prior to 2.3.

What I did was something like this:

@@ -187,8 +189,10 @@ find $PKG -print0 | xargs -0 file | grep
 find $PKG/usr/man -type f -exec gzip -9 {} \;

 mkdir -p $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION/txt
-cp -a Changelog COPYING* CREDITS INSTALL LICENSE MAINTAINERS README RELEASE \
-  VERSION doc/RELEASE_NOTES $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION
+cp -a Changelog COPYING* CREDITS INSTALL* LICENSE* MAINTAINERS README* RELEASE \
+  VERSION $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION
+_f=doc/RELEASE_NOTES [ -f "$_f" ] && cp -a "$_f" $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION
+_f=RELEASE_NOTES [ -f "$_f" ] && cp -a "$_f" $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION
 cp -a doc/*.txt $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION/txt/
 cat $CWD/$PRGNAM.SlackBuild > $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION/$PRGNAM.SlackBuild


I hope this can be of help for the Slackware community.

Thanks,

Luiz Ramos
São Paulo - Brazil
lramos dot prof at yahoo dot com dot br