From: Rafael Sadowski <rafael@sizeofvoid.org>
Subject: Re: UPDATE: FFmpeg 4.4.5
To: Brad Smith <brad@comstyle.com>
Cc: ports@openbsd.org
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2024 10:42:35 +0200

On Tue Jul 30, 2024 at 09:59:37PM UTC, Brad Smith wrote:
> On 2024-07-30 1:54 a.m., Mihai Popescu wrote:
> > I see ffmpeg is on version 7 as a release. If I may ask, why ports are
> > not jumping higher than 4.4.5 with ffmpeg version?
> > Is it because it won't compile on OpenBSD?
> > Is it because some dependencies will not support a higher version of ffmpeg yet?
> 
> Until downstream projects adjust for API changes you can't update like that.
> Just updating
> FFmpeg itself is the easy part.

I would be happy if we could do it like the others. For example
graphics/ffmpeg/{4,6} and then the installation of libs and includes in
different places:

    --incdir=/usr/include/ffmpeg4.4 \
    --libdir=/usr/lib/ffmpeg4.4 

Rafael