[SOLVED] need help with videosubfinder (install phase)

sdauth · l33t Joined: 19 Sep 2018 Posts: 717 Location: Ásgarðr

Hello,
This is the ebuild :

Anon-E-moose · Posted: Sat May 17, 2025 5:47 pm Post subject:

I would think it would be some variant of dosym (eclass)
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fedeliallalinea · Posted: Sat May 17, 2025 5:53 pm Post subject:

As Anon-E-moose say use dosym with -r option.
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sdauth · l33t Joined: 19 Sep 2018 Posts: 717 Location: Ásgarðr

Thanks !

fedeliallalinea · Posted: Sat May 17, 2025 6:59 pm Post subject:

sdauth · l33t Joined: 19 Sep 2018 Posts: 717 Location: Ásgarðr

Thanks, it works although there is a QA notice.

* QA Notice: world writable file(s):
* //usr/share/VideoSubFinder/report.log
* This may or may not be a security problem, most of the time it is one.
* Please double check that videosubfinder-6.10 really needs a world writeable bit and file bugs accordingly.

Unfortunately this error still shows up:

sdauth · l33t Joined: 19 Sep 2018 Posts: 717 Location: Ásgarðr

Instead of using dosym, I tried with the wrapper eclass & make_wrapper :

Anon-E-moose · Posted: Sat May 17, 2025 8:01 pm Post subject:

What are the permissions on /usr/share/VideoSubFinder/ and owner/group

Edit to add: Just an FYI, I wouldn't use 777 perms for a log file, 666 at most.
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Anon-E-moose · Posted: Sat May 17, 2025 8:10 pm Post subject:

sdauth · l33t Joined: 19 Sep 2018 Posts: 717 Location: Ásgarðr

Yes, that's a good idea. I'll have a look later and see if I can take inspiration from other ebuild too.

Anon-E-moose · Posted: Sat May 17, 2025 8:24 pm Post subject:

It looks like paths get set in Interfaces/VideoSubFinderWXW/VideoSubFinderWXW.cpp (search for report.log)

So you can probably set them to something like /tmp (by creating a patch) but it would be a little harder to make them go to ~/.config
unless you make it specific to your user, instead of <any user>/.config

Edit to add: wouldn't be terribly hard to make it go to .config
Interfaces/VideoSubFinderWXW/VideoSubFinderWXW.cpp line 188 (g_work_dir = g_app_dir;)

I would probably put an ifdef linux after this and inside the ifdef
getenv on XDG_CONFIG_HOME and if that is empty just set to "/home/user/.config" and
copy that to g_work_dir
then end the ifdef and let the rest do what it does anyway.

I think this should work.
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sdauth · l33t Joined: 19 Sep 2018 Posts: 717 Location: Ásgarðr

This is beyond what I'm able to do but I appreciate your help Anon-E-moose, thanks.
Maybe someone more experienced than I am will be able to make a patch, if this is possible.
But I noticed the program throws segfault at times (related to wxgtk from what I see) so I'm not sure it's worth to invest time in it.
Meanwhile, I remembered that wine is now available in no-multilib so I installed it and used the Win version to avoid headaches. It works fine.