Creating an ebuild for spotify (create ebuild from a .deb)

Goltia · n00b Joined: 17 Jul 2010 Posts: 25

Hi there,

I'm a gentoo user for a few years now and a Spotify user for a few months.

Recently, I was happy to learn that Spotify release a pre-version for Linux.
I checked their website and they only provide a debian package.

I managed to install spotify with the .deb and thought it would be nice to create an ebuild for those who want Spotify on gentoo like me.

My question is:
I always thought that ebuilds must contain only source files to be compiled when en emerge is done by gentoo users.

As the .deb contains compiled binary files, is it a good thing to create an ebuild that will just take the binary files and copy them at the right place ?

krinn · Watchman Joined: 02 May 2003 Posts: 7470

http://gentoo-overlays.zugaina.org/sunrise/portage/media-sound/despotify/despotify-9999.ebuild

not spotify, but i prefer open-source anyway

for your source file vs binary in ebuild, just check firefox-bin openoffice-bin...

Goltia · n00b Joined: 17 Jul 2010 Posts: 25

Gunde · n00b Joined: 24 Nov 2004 Posts: 4

azp · Guru Joined: 16 Nov 2003 Posts: 456 Location: Sweden

Nice, thanks for both tips! I'll try them both

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azp · Guru Joined: 16 Nov 2003 Posts: 456 Location: Sweden

Here's a new ebuild if somebody wants it: http://trunc.it/djg7g
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McGruff · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 28 Dec 2004 Posts: 148

Thanks for the ebuild.

Any idea why pulseaudio is needed? I'd rather keep that off my system if possible.

azp · Guru Joined: 16 Nov 2003 Posts: 456 Location: Sweden

dnm · Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2011 9:03 am Post subject:

I usually change to

KaZeR · Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2011 9:12 am Post subject:

Hi,

I used to use the ebuild from sabayon overlay, but it seems it disapeared (it was outdated, only using 0.4.9, anyway).

I've updated the ebuild for 0.5.1, and posted it in bugzilla, so it will be easier to update it.

Here's the link : https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=373093

Hope it will be useful for someone

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TinheadNed · Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2011 6:57 pm Post subject:

FYI latest is now 0.5.2.84 (g6d797eb9). I can't remember whose ebuild I'm using any more, but it was for 0.4.8 or something, renaming worked fine. Just tried the Android syncing which was terrifyingly idiotproof.

azp · Guru Joined: 16 Nov 2003 Posts: 456 Location: Sweden

Updated post with ebuild: http://volatileint.blogspot.com/2011/10/updated-spotify-ebuild-061309.html

Renaming doesn't work anymore since they haven't updated the gnome-client this time, but I just did an ugly workaround for it. The package should really be split into two parts, just like they have with their debian package.
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TinheadNed · Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2011 9:05 pm Post subject:

Looks like the 64 bit binaries link to OpenSSL 0.9.8, I'm using 1.0.0d

Did the old ones not link to libssl and libcrypto directly?

FranZ · Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2011 9:09 pm Post subject:

azp · Guru Joined: 16 Nov 2003 Posts: 456 Location: Sweden

FranZ · Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2011 2:17 pm Post subject:

azp · Guru Joined: 16 Nov 2003 Posts: 456 Location: Sweden

Cool, I'll remove it then!
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TinheadNed · Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2011 2:52 pm Post subject:

I've installed openssl:0.9.8 and spotify now starts but crashes pretty much instantly.

guinness.stout · Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2011 2:27 am Post subject:

Tired the ebuild but got the following error, any ideas?

azp · Guru Joined: 16 Nov 2003 Posts: 456 Location: Sweden

The newest build doesn't seem to work on Gentoo because of the issue with SSL.. I haven't dug any deeper into it than that since the old version still works.

On another note:

TinheadNed · Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2011 8:53 pm Post subject:

I've also updated to 0.6.2.291 and it does the same thing.

azp · Guru Joined: 16 Nov 2003 Posts: 456 Location: Sweden

I think we (as in you

) should write a bug on their getsatisfaction site. Inform them that we have the issue (and crashes) with libssl 0.9.8 vs 1.0 etc
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TinheadNed · Posted: Fri Oct 21, 2011 8:33 pm Post subject:

When I get bored I run the crash dump uploader a bunch of times, and upload the crashes. I'll put something on there if I get the chance, although if I have to reg for that site the likelihood will diminish considerably.

TinheadNed · Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2011 9:02 pm Post subject:

I raised something on getsatisfaction as it doesn't bloody work in wine now either.

EDIT Link here. Like it or whatever.

lukipuki · Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2011 1:58 pm Post subject: