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On 16 Aug 2010, at 01:43, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: |
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> There's a program I really want to use, and I was hoping it existed |
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> in Gentoo. |
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> It's called handbrake. eix can't find it. equery cannot find it. |
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> But there's |
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> a bug (#89432) filed against it, with the last comment (#111) just 4 |
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> days ago. |
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> So where in the portage is handbrake-0.9.4.ebuild? |
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To expand on Dale's answer, Handbrake is unlikely ever to be in Portage. |
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The Handbrake developers use the poor practice of snapshotting the |
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upstream libraries they depend upon (I'm not sure if they also patch |
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or modify them, instead of pushing those changes upstream) and then |
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packaging those libs with Handbrake (in a particularly ugly way, too, |
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one might add). |
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So when you install Handbrake you download a bunch of additional |
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libraries (which you likely already have installed on your system) and |
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it is compiled against those versions. |
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The correct way to do this would be for the handbrake developers to |
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simply specify which libraries are required and link against the ones |
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already installed on your system. If a specific version of a library |
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is required - but generally speaking it shouldn't be - then that can |
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be done as part of the ebuild / makefile dependency checking. |
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The link you posted to handbrake-0.9.4.ebuild is an ebuild. You can |
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install it something like this: |
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# mkdir -p /usr/local/portage/media-video/handbrake/ |
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# curl http://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=229397 > \ |
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/usr/local/portage/media-video/handbrake/handbrake-0.9.4.ebuild |
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# ebuild manifest /usr/local/portage/media-video/handbrake/ |
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handbrake-0.9.4.ebuild |
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# emerge handbrake |
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It's a shitty ebuild, and it has to be, because that's inherent in the |
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way the Handbrake devs "package" their program, but the ebuild does |
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install and work the way the Handbrake devs intended. |
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I would have thought you'd already know this if you had fully read bug |
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#89432. |
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I know that transcoding is a bit of a black art, but I'm not convinced |
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Handbrake is actually that good. |
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Stroller. |
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