Raspberry Pi OS Bookworm Released

mitu

@rhino said in Raspberry Pi OS Bookworm Released:

Is the version in bookworm not suitable for use in retropie? I noticed that it's linked a bit differently:

On a Pi (and a few other SBC platforms) RetroPie has always compiled its own version of SDL and set the package(s) on hold to prevent overwriting.

rhino

@mitu Ok that is fine but I wanted to know what's the reason for it and whether it's still valid.

mitu

@rhino said in Raspberry Pi OS Bookworm Released:

.. what's the reason for it and whether it's still valid.

The reason is we have a few SDL patches specific to RetroPie which we maintain, so we have a separate SDL package. And yes, it's still valid. We update the version of our patches along with SDL, so at some point it's not going to be an isssue when the SDL version will be bumped in our package.

rhino

@mitu This is very interesting can you please elaborate what exactly is being patched in retropie version? The version number is not a problem but the fact that it's linked so differently (possibly patches themselves) is likely to cause problems with system software. E.g. mpv and VLC are no longer capable to play movies in the console with the replaced lib. Is there a solution to this?

mitu

@rhino said in Raspberry Pi OS Bookworm Released:

E.g. mpv and VLC are no longer capable to play movies in the console with the replaced lib. Is there a solution to this?

I don't think that's an issue caused by SDL. You can find the patches included in RetroPie's SDL in the Github repository here.

rhino

@mitu Ups sorry turns out it was just me messing up my system. Both players continue to work without problems.

You can find the patches included in RetroPie's SDL in the Github repository here.

Ok so just a handful of commits at the top?

https://github.com/RetroPie/SDL/compare/adf31f6ec0be0f9ba562889398f71172c7941023...retropie-2.26.3