Re: Handling and resolving 'dependency' which has been custom compiled

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On 03/27/2015 06:00 PM, Lorenzo Sutton wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> What is the best way in Fedora to handle the following situation?
> 
> - Package X depends on package Y
> - Package Y is actually installed through custom compiling it (in
> $HOME/bin)
> - Doing:
> 
> yum install X
> 
> will want to install Y
> 
> Specifically in my case X is kdenlive and Y is ffmpeg.
> 
> I compiled ffmpeg manually to have jack audio [1] support by following
> the guide on the ffmpeg website [2]. This means ffmpeg is in
> ~/bin/ffmpeg (also in my PATH). Before doing this I removed (with yum)
> ffmpeg. Now if I try to:
> 
> yum install kdenlive
> 
> it will want to install ffmpeg.
> 
> Any suggestions, ideas, pointers are welcome.

Download the srpm for Y.  Substitute your configuration/code/options for
the srpm's versions.  Build a new, local version of the RPM.  Use your
RPM instead of the one in the repos.  Make sure that your version is
always > the versions in the repos.  (ie, whenever a new version hits
the repos, update/build your version again.)

> Thanks
> Lorenzo.
> 
> [1] http://www.jackaudio.org/ (ffmpeg will add jack support if it finds
> the jack development files)
> [2] https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/CompilationGuide/Centos
> 
> 
> 

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