Bug 157516

Summary:	gstreamer upgrade causes applications to complain about missing sinks
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Lloeki <lloeki>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	GStreamer package maintainers <gstreamer>
Status:	RESOLVED NEEDINFO
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	2006.1
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Description Lloeki 2006-12-08 06:07:54 UTC

lately, I happened to move between some gstreamer versions, and most of times, things start to break, even between revs (last was e.g 0.10.10 -> 0.10.4, but it happened on upgrades too). symptoms are crashing applications and applets, maybe complaining about missing sinks.
to fix that, all gstreamer dependencies should be rebuilt. something like the following works:

# emerge -1av $(for i in `equery d gstreamer | grep /`; do echo -n "=$i "; done)

it may be a good idea to put a warning at the end of the ebuild, much like the cups 1.1 -> 1.2 warning.

Comment 1 Zaheer Abbas Merali (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-12-09 13:49:56 UTC

Please provide more information, I did exactly this on a machine of mine yesterday and had no fallout from apps breaking.