On Sun, May 7, 2017 at 6:37 PM, Eli Schwartz via arch-general <arch-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 05/07/2017 02:28 PM, Carsten Mattner via arch-general wrote: >> On Sun, May 7, 2017 at 6:11 PM, Doug Newgard <scimmia@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> And again, the cycle doesn't matter at all if your ffmpeg package is set up >>> correctly. >> >> I don't understand how I can without additionally repacking libx264/x264, >> but hopefully I will see what you're saying later today or tomorrow. > > What Doug is saying is, you should do what 99.9999999% of all other Arch > Linux users creating custom packages to replace repo packages do, and > make your forked ffmpeg package provide "ffmpeg", thereby ensuring that > libx264/x264 depend on *your* package! Is the idea that I create a machine local repo that has highest prio and overrides arch extra/testing? Otherwise, I don't know how to unbreak the cycle while only building a custom ffmpeg.
