Stroller wrote:
On 16 Aug 2010, at 01:43, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
There's a program I really want to use, and I was hoping it existed
in Gentoo.
It's called handbrake. eix can't find it. equery cannot find it.
But there's
a bug (#89432) filed against it, with the last comment (#111) just 4
days ago.
So where in the portage is handbrake-0.9.4.ebuild?
To expand on Dale's answer, Handbrake is unlikely ever to be in Portage.
The Handbrake developers use the poor practice of snapshotting the
upstream libraries they depend upon (I'm not sure if they also patch
or modify them, instead of pushing those changes upstream) and then
packaging those libs with Handbrake (in a particularly ugly way, too,
one might add).
So when you install Handbrake you download a bunch of additional
libraries (which you likely already have installed on your system) and
it is compiled against those versions.
The correct way to do this would be for the handbrake developers to
simply specify which libraries are required and link against the ones
already installed on your system. If a specific version of a library
is required - but generally speaking it shouldn't be - then that can
be done as part of the ebuild / makefile dependency checking.
The link you posted to handbrake-0.9.4.ebuild is an ebuild. You can
install it something like this:
# mkdir -p /usr/local/portage/media-video/handbrake/
# curl http://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=229397 > \
/usr/local/portage/media-video/handbrake/handbrake-0.9.4.ebuild
# ebuild manifest
/usr/local/portage/media-video/handbrake/handbrake-0.9.4.ebuild
# emerge handbrake
It's a shitty ebuild, and it has to be, because that's inherent in the
way the Handbrake devs "package" their program, but the ebuild does
install and work the way the Handbrake devs intended.
I would have thought you'd already know this if you had fully read bug
#89432.
I know that transcoding is a bit of a black art, but I'm not convinced
Handbrake is actually that good.
Stroller.
Now I'm curious. Basically the programmers have a crappy way of making
their package and Gentoo doesn't need the headache? Based on your
explanation, I can't blame the Gentoo devs for that. They got enough
headaches already.
I also noticed that bug report was started about 5 years ago. I really
think you are right that it won't ever be added, unless the people at
handbrake do things differently.
Didn't Googleearth start out this way tho? I know it used to be a huge
mess.
Dale
:-) :-)
