Proposals for Gentoo future

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Mon May 11, 2015 8:48 pm Post subject:

Ema64,

Correct. On some ebuilds, just by changing the ebuild file name, to <package>-9999.ebuild you enable the 'live' functionality.
Unfortunately media-video/cinelerra is not one of those.

The ebuild shows SRC_URI="http://dev.gentoo.org/~ssuominen/${P}.tar.xz" which is in ssuominens dev space on dev.gentoo.org too, not the cinelerra website.
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Ema64 · n00b Joined: 19 Apr 2015 Posts: 19

Hmm, maybe I can try to contact the ebuild's owner just to know something.

I must say a thing: Gentoo is POWERFUL.
Really: POWERFUL.

I think that it needs some flagships just to give idea of power and so it'll spread. Cinelerra and video editing is wonderful on Linux awesome performance. If you think about all the products in the past which got success they are linked to something. The Sega Megadrive console had Sonic, the first Playstation had that wonderful driving game, the Amiga computer in a world of 'mono' concept delivered the multimedia idea... and so on.

We must link the Gentoo uber penguin to some strong image just to exit from the common Linux world.

Cinelerra in my opinion could be the first step this is the reason for which I insist on it

Tony0945 · Posted: Thu May 14, 2015 1:36 pm Post subject:

Ema64, you could create your own local overlay and modify the ebuild. In this case:

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Thu May 14, 2015 8:58 pm Post subject:

Tony0945,

The ebuild name and version number tells the tarball to fetch.
Its often possible to do a version bump by changing the ebuild version number in the file name.

A word of warning - I'm mot an ebuild dev so am not best placed to advise on edits to ebuilds.
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Tony0945 · Posted: Thu May 14, 2015 10:07 pm Post subject:

Chiitoo · Posted: Thu May 14, 2015 10:15 pm Post subject:

In the case of Cinelerra, from a quick peek, it looks like it's a bit on the complicated side (which is probably why the older versions were packaged and hosted by Samuli Suominen, in their personal space, whom I haven't seen active for a few months now... I hope they're just on a break!).

It may be possible to create at least a live-ebuild rather painlessly, but I can't tell for sure yet. With a quick search at their (horrible!) website, I couldn't find sources for different releases, only something that looked like binaries and build-scripts.

I will look into it more tomorrow (or later today, rather), if time permits. I may fail to do anything useful though, as I'm not too good with ebuilds myself.

Also, there's already a bug report: here.
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steveL · Posted: Fri May 15, 2015 11:50 am Post subject:

Ema64 · n00b Joined: 19 Apr 2015 Posts: 19

I already visited their web site but unfortunately they do not host sources: they are only in google code and they can be taken from git.

I tried to compile from git (in my mind prior to prepare an ebuild I must see if the src compile... am I right?

) but panicking worse than a kernel badly compiled

Some headers 'seem' to have missing path and I've fixed the .c source; then it's dependency time and with emerge I fixed that.

Now the sources during compilation phase are searching for some damned .a lib which should be in another dir and it's not and as of now I retired

Apart from that the structure you receive from git is: a main configure which calls DOZENS of other configure and in Gentoo you must pass to one of that configure the --disable-vaa otherwise billions errors appears. I've done it manually into the nested configure but I don't know how to do from the beginning

Anyway are we in OT? In case I'll open another topic by speaking of Cinelerra

Chiitoo · Posted: Sun May 17, 2015 2:00 pm Post subject: