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I hate when this happens. I know that I read somewhere in the docs |
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that you can take a tarball of an app that doesn't have a Gentoo ebuild |
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and incorporate it into your "world" file, so that it knows at least |
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that the app is installed, and how to remove it. But I can't seem to |
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find that reference now. Am I mis-remembering, or does it really exist? |
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The particular item I'm interested in is a perl module called |
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"exiftool" ( http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/ ). Since |
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libtiff doesn't read exif data from TIFFs, Gimp (which uses libtiff) |
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can't access or save the exif data to any JPEG versions of the same |
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file. exiftool can read and write a whole bunch of metadata. My use |
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right now is copying exif data from TIFFs to their JPEG descendants. |
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One thing I noticed is that when you uncompress the tarball, the |
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commandline utility can be run without installing if you cd to to the |
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directory containing it. To get it to run from anywhere, you need to |
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perl Makefile.PL |
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make |
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make test |
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make install |
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with the last step requiring root access. I assume this copies libs to |
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some place on the libpath? Would it be possible to just uncompress it |
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to a regular user's directory, and append the path to LIBPATH, or |
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whatever? |
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-- |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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My musings on technology and security at http://tech_sec.blog.ca |
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