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 > > > -- Kevin J. Cummings kjchome@xxxxxxxxxxx cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Registered Linux User #1232 (http://www.linuxcounter.net/) -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
