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Stephan Wiesand <[log in to unmask]>
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Stephan Wiesand <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 22 Jun 2005 20:46:40 +0200
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Hi Troy,

On Wed, 22 Jun 2005, Troy Dawson wrote:

> Hi Jeremy,
> Feel free to send us the digitally signed RPM's and we can put them into the 
> contrib area.

AFAIK, turning on the freetype byetcode interpreter will require any 
user of such a build to acquire a license from apple for the patented 
techniques used. Are you sure you want this in contrib?

Cheers,
 	Stephan

> Troy
> p.s. Does anyone have a good web page(s) that talk about how to sign rpm's. 
> It's a snap once you know how, but getting people up to speed is a little 
> harder.
>
> Jeremy Sanders wrote:
>> I see that SL includes the xmms-mp3 package which provides mp3 support not 
>> included in RHEL.
>> 
>> I wonder whether it would be possible to switch on mp3 support in kde too 
>> (which was disabled by RH). This only needs a one-line change in the spec 
>> file:
>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>> --- kdemultimedia.spec~ 2004-10-16 22:17:24.000000000 +0100
>> +++ kdemultimedia.spec  2005-06-22 17:31:58.946848109 +0100
>> @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
>>  %define final 0
>>
>>  # support mp3
>> -%define build_mpeglib 0
>> +%define build_mpeglib 1
>>
>>  %define my_vendor kde
>> 
>> <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
>> 
>> In addition RedHat switches off the bytecode interpreter of the freetype 
>> package, making fonts which don't look very nice. Would SL consider 
>> switching it on in its packages?? It's only another one line change:
>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>> --- freetype.spec~      2004-08-04 21:42:33.000000000 +0100
>> +++ freetype.spec       2005-06-22 17:33:37.321932458 +0100
>> @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
>>  # Disables freetype 1 and 2 bytecode interpreter.  Setting to 0 enables
>>  # the bytecode interpreter in both freetype 1 and 2.
>> -%define without_bytecode_interpreter    1
>> +%define without_bytecode_interpreter    0
>>
>>  %define with_freetype1 1
>> 
>> <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
>> 
>> Thanks
>> 
>> Jeremy
>> 
>
>
>

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