Bugzilla – Bug 437368
opensuse-codecs-installer slightly outdated
Last modified: 2011-09-06 13:46:45 UTC
opensuse-codecs-installer is slightly outdated. It leads the user to the following page: http://software.opensuse.org/codecs?client_version=10.3.1&lang=de_DE@euro& os_release=openSUSE%20Beta%202%2(i586) &kernel=2.6.27-rc7-12-default&xine=libxine1-1.1.15-16.7&plugin0=... Please notice especially the ?client_version parameter ;-)
Hopefully we will have a new version for 11.2, but the client_version is not the OS version which is included elsewhere in the string (from /etc/SuSE-release). client_version is the version of the package (opensuse-codecs-installer) which just happened to originate in 10.3, and thus has that version (it hasn't changed). Do you have a specific problem with it? The URL you posted is mangled in bugzilla, so I can't see what you see.
My report was about the client_version parameter which is still set to 10.3. Maybe it is just an optical problem (as in "outdated version number) - I don't have a technical problem with it. BTW: You should add some quoting. I just called the opensuse-codec-installer in the commandline (without any parameters) and got: ./opensuse-codecs-installer: line 143: [: libxine1-1.1.15-44.pm.2: binary operator expected The reason for this: $xine_package contains the result of # rpm -qf /usr/lib/xine 2>/dev/null libxine1-1.1.15-44.pm.2 libxine1-codecs-1.1.15-44.pm.2 This means line 143 if [ ! -z $xine_package ]; then will expand to if [ ! -z libxine1-1.1.15-44.pm.2 libxine1-codecs-1.1.15-44.pm.2 ]; then (Fixing this would also allow to increase the version number *g*)
The version with which you had the bug is now obsolete. I'll close this as NORESPONSE. If you can still reproduce it in current 11.4, please reopen the bug and move it to the appropriate version. Thanks!
openSUSE 11.4 still has the same quoting bug I described in comment #2. Unfortunately I'm not sure who is the current maintainer of the package - Aaron is still listed as bugowner in the buildservice, but "autobugz" assigned the bug away from him which means he probably is no longer working for Novell.
there is no maintainer - even when Aaron still worked at Novell, he neither maintained the page nor the tool. I rather drop it.
I wonder what's the better alternative: dropping that tool or leaving it as it is.
Short answer: I don't know. Longer answer: I already asked this on the factory-ml some months ago. Please read yourself: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2011-04/msg00034.html
I just wanted to drop it - and noticed, it's gone since april. Your factory thread triggered that most likely