From: Rafael Sadowski <rafael@sizeofvoid.org>
Subject: Re: UPDATE: FFmpeg 4.4.5
To: ports@openbsd.org
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2024 13:47:06 +0200

On Thu Aug 01, 2024 at 11:02:41AM UTC, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> On 2024/08/01 10:42, Rafael Sadowski wrote:
> > 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 
> 
> Please no. Symbols will conflict and so the two versions can't be mixed
> in the same address space. Managing this in ports is much harder than
> just doing the fixes required for the update.
> 

Ah true! I saw this with libclang (base and ports) How doas Linux and
FreeBSD handle this case?