cerbero recipes, packages and loaders

[Sebastian Dröge]

On Di, 2013-06-11 at 11:25 -0700, Wes Miller wrote:
> Having read everything I can find on cerbero recipes, etc.  Istill  need a
> few of the blank spaces filled in.  FWIW,  this page
> <http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/data/events/gstreamer-conference/2012/gstreamer-conf-2012-morales-gstreamer-sdk.pdf>  
> explains a lot as does  this page
> <http://docs.gstreamer.com/display/GstSDK/Multiplatform+deployment+using+Cerbero> 
> . 
> 
> A recipe has a number of fields in it.  While I assume the gstreamer
> repositories contains library sources and a perusal of the source tree can
> give me some/most of the information needed, where does one find the
> codename?  Maybe just make one up?  Versioning info?

Made up, chose whatever you want for your version :)

> Is there a scheme to which package a recipe gets added to?  I'd tin librtmp
> which provides rtmpsrc and rtmpsink ought to g in gsreamer-networking, but
> they are also ffmpeg elements and they are also my-personal-afterthoughts
> packages.  

How are they ffmpeg elements? Do they depend on gst-ffmpeg, or link to
ffmpeg? I think they should be in gstreamer-networking-restricted.

> In a package file, where does the uuid come from?  Making those up is
> meaningless to me if only I use my package, but for those that go out to the
> world, the uuid matters.

They're made up, and only useful for the MSI installers IIRC.
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