FreeBSD Port: gstreamer-plugins-0.8.1

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Wed May 12 02:59:15 PDT 2004


On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 04:22:38AM -0500, Jeremy Messenger wrote:

> Found it and it's sysinstall's fault.
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.8R/errata.html
> =================================================
> A file that is a part of the multimedia/gstreamer-plugins port may appear 
> to have a corrupted filename when the ports collection is installed using 
> sysinstall(8). This should not affect building the port or installing the 
> corresponding package. However, it is recommended to rename the file in 
> question, to prevent problems during any future updates to the installed 
> ports collection:
> 
> # cd /usr/ports/multimedia/gstreamer-plugins/files
> # mv patch-gst-libs_ext_ffmpeg_ffmpeg_libavcodec_alpha_simple_i \
> patch-gst-libs_ext_ffmpeg_ffmpeg_libavcodec_alpha_simple_idct_alpha.c
> =================================================
> 
> Now, I remember why CVSup couldn't find this file. :-)

Ah, the famous 100 character pathname truncation bug :-)

Kris
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