Bug 571177 - add libmikmod as dependency
Summary: add libmikmod as dependency
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: extremetuxracer
Version: 13
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Nils Philippsen
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard:
: 584211 (view as bug list)
Depends On: 572195
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2010-03-07 12:57 UTC by damian
Modified: 2011-06-27 15:06 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Clone Of:
: 572195 (view as bug list)
Environment:
Last Closed: 2011-06-27 15:06:17 UTC
Type: ---
Embargoed:


Attachments (Terms of Use)
without libmikmod (79.33 KB, image/png)
2010-03-09 16:32 UTC, damian
no flags Details

Description damian 2010-03-07 12:57:58 UTC
Description of problem:
Package should depend on libmikmod

How reproducible:
Install extremetuxracer without having libmikmod.
No Music at all. If opened via terminal error  messages
comes up about not having libmikmod.

Comment 1 Nils Philippsen 2010-03-08 12:00:50 UTC
I don't find mention of "mikmod" anywhere in extremetuxracer. Please attach the error message you see. Thanks.

Comment 2 damian 2010-03-09 16:32:21 UTC
Created attachment 398840 [details]
without libmikmod

Comment 3 damian 2010-03-09 16:33:31 UTC
After "yum install libmikmod" it works fine. I am using rawhide.

Comment 4 Nils Philippsen 2010-03-10 14:25:50 UTC
Hmm, etracer doesn't use libmikmod directly but via SDL_mixer. In older versions of it, libmikmod was linked in directly, but in Rawhide it will be dlopen()ed (if it's available).

I consider SDL_mixer using libmikmod an implementation detail so requiring it from etracer would only be a band-aid. IMO, SDL_mixer should give me a means to say "this packages needs SDL_mixer and it needs it for playing mods" and leave it to SDL_mixer to pull in the required libraries. For example, SDL_mixer could have an empty meta-subpackage "SDL_mixer-mod":

...
%package mod
Summary: SDL_mixer mod enablement
Provides: SDL_mixer(mod)%{?_isa} = %{?epoch:%{epoch}:}%{version}-%{release}
Requires: %{name} = %{?epoch:%{epoch}:}%{version}-%{release}
Requires: libmikmod%{?_isa}

%description mod
This package pulls in dependencies needed by SDL_mixer to play the following formats: blah, foo and bar tracker
...

Likewise for all other formats that aren't directly pulled in by the main package.

A package like extremetuxracer could then just require "SDL_mixer(mod)%{_isa}" and everything should work.

Comment 5 Nils Philippsen 2010-04-21 13:17:59 UTC
Johan, I've put you on Cc because I'd like your input on what I proposed in comment #4.

Comment 6 Nils Philippsen 2010-04-21 13:18:11 UTC
*** Bug 584211 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7 Johan Cwiklinski 2010-04-21 16:33:12 UTC
I've released SDL_mixer ownership today, so I add the new maintainer to Cc list instead of me ;)

Comment 8 Thomas Janssen 2010-04-22 17:18:56 UTC
Hi Nils,

why not simply add libmikmod to SDL_mixer requires? That way we make stuff like etracer and whatnot just work out of the box with a single change. 

Well, but i'm open for either way. One of us needs to decide ;)

Comment 9 Nils Philippsen 2010-04-23 10:56:34 UTC
I'm fine with that. I only thought that making SDL_mixer dlopen() libmikmod only when needed was made so you don't have a hard dependency on libmikmod (otherwise they could just have continued linking it in directly). Your call ;-).

Comment 10 Thomas Janssen 2010-06-17 09:11:27 UTC
Ugh, sorry, i totally forgot about that one. Fixed in 1.2.11-3.fc14 currently building.

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