Hello,
Is there any repo or RPM for the awesome music player that is Nightingale ?
Thanks :-)
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 1:38 PM, Junayeed Ahnaf Nirjhor zombiegenerator@aol.com wrote:
Hello,
Is there any repo or RPM for the awesome music player that is Nightingale ?
I'm assuming you already searched in the repos so my guess is that because it bundles a number of libraries that it's not acceptable to Fedora unless upstream or a packager unbundles the libraries. I'm taking a look out of curiosity, but it looks like it may be a lot of work.
Richard
On 03/29/2012 12:53 AM, Richard Shaw wrote:
I'm assuming you already searched in the repos so my guess is that because it bundles a number of libraries that it's not acceptable to Fedora unless upstream or a packager unbundles the libraries. I'm taking a look out of curiosity, but it looks like it may be a lot of work.
Richard
Well, I managed to get an Ubuntu .deb file for the previous version (unfortunately, I can't find the source anymore). And yes, I've searched with the usual string (not too deep search though.).
Let me know if you have an update :-)
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 2:27 PM, Junayeed Ahnaf Nirjhor zombiegenerator@aol.com wrote:
Let me know if you have an update :-)
Well, I have good news and I have bad news. First the bad:
This thing is a nightmare to package. The whole build process is designed for an individual to do a personal install. Not only does it bundle a number of libraries, but it downloads two dependencies as part of the build process, one of which is a binary package, so it's arch specific. It's going to take quite a bit of work to make it acceptable to distros that don't allow bundled libraries and unless they make it a priority, I don't think it will happen anytime soon.
Additionally the main makefile doesn't even support an install target. You have to go into a system specific folder (linux, windows, Solaris, etc) and all it does then is copy in a few system specific files to the build location and tar it up.
The good news is I made a very hackish SRPM which you can try out. It installs into /opt/nightingale because it doesn't install anything to the appropriate place. It also doesn't provide a desktop file so there will be no menu entry in Gnome/KDE, etc. The SRPM is quite big because the source is 43MB by itself and it downloads two other sizable files as part of the build.
Richard
On 03/29/2012 09:15 PM, Richard Shaw wrote:
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 2:27 PM, Junayeed Ahnaf Nirjhor zombiegenerator@aol.com wrote:
Let me know if you have an update :-)
Well, I have good news and I have bad news. First the bad:
This thing is a nightmare to package. The whole build process is designed for an individual to do a personal install. Not only does it bundle a number of libraries, but it downloads two dependencies as part of the build process, one of which is a binary package, so it's arch specific. It's going to take quite a bit of work to make it acceptable to distros that don't allow bundled libraries and unless they make it a priority, I don't think it will happen anytime soon.
Additionally the main makefile doesn't even support an install target. You have to go into a system specific folder (linux, windows, Solaris, etc) and all it does then is copy in a few system specific files to the build location and tar it up.
The good news is I made a very hackish SRPM which you can try out. It installs into /opt/nightingale because it doesn't install anything to the appropriate place. It also doesn't provide a desktop file so there will be no menu entry in Gnome/KDE, etc. The SRPM is quite big because the source is 43MB by itself and it downloads two other sizable files as part of the build.
Richard
Man,
You're THE man. Attach the link to download the SRPM :)
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Junayeed Ahnaf Nirjhor zombiegenerator@aol.com wrote:
You're THE man. Attach the link to download the SRPM :)
I haven't had a chance to test it but here you go!
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/34775202/nightingale-1.11.0-1.fc16.src.rpm
Richard
On 03/29/2012 10:00 PM, Richard Shaw wrote:
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Junayeed Ahnaf Nirjhor zombiegenerator@aol.com wrote:
You're THE man. Attach the link to download the SRPM :)
I haven't had a chance to test it but here you go!
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/34775202/nightingale-1.11.0-1.fc16.src.rpm
Richard
Tested it. Works very well for a pre-pre alpha SRPM ;)
Now, if you add a .desktop file and maybe (just maybe) set up a repo
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 11:22 PM, Junayeed Ahnaf Nirjhor zombiegenerator@aol.com wrote:
Tested it. Works very well for a pre-pre alpha SRPM ;)
Now, if you add a .desktop file and maybe (just maybe) set up a repo
I can add it to the SRPM easy enough but that would require you to rebuild. It's simple enough to create a desktop file. I found the following for songbird and modified it for nightingale. Just cut and paste this into a file called nightingale.desktop and place it in /usr/share/applications. I'm assuming you're supposed to start it with "nightingale" and not "nightingale-bin".
---start--- [Desktop Entry] Name=Nighingale Comment=Nightingale Media Player Exec=nightingale Icon=/opt/nightingale/nightingale-512.png Terminal=0 Type=Application Encoding=UTF-8 Categories=Audio/Video; ---end---
Richard
On 03/30/2012 07:18 PM, Richard Shaw wrote:
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 11:22 PM, Junayeed Ahnaf Nirjhor zombiegenerator@aol.com wrote:
Tested it. Works very well for a pre-pre alpha SRPM ;)
Now, if you add a .desktop file and maybe (just maybe) set up a repo
I can add it to the SRPM easy enough but that would require you to rebuild. It's simple enough to create a desktop file. I found the following for songbird and modified it for nightingale. Just cut and paste this into a file called nightingale.desktop and place it in /usr/share/applications. I'm assuming you're supposed to start it with "nightingale" and not "nightingale-bin".
---start--- [Desktop Entry] Name=Nighingale Comment=Nightingale Media Player Exec=nightingale Icon=/opt/nightingale/nightingale-512.png Terminal=0 Type=Application Encoding=UTF-8 Categories=Audio/Video; ---end---
Richard
Thank you for your effort. I actually setup a desktop file already. Any update on the repo?
On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 9:25 AM, Junayeed Ahnaf Nirjhor zombiegenerator@aol.com wrote:
Thank you for your effort. I actually setup a desktop file already. Any update on the repo?
I have updated to SRPM to: - include the i686 dependency with conditional to copy in the right tarball. - added the desktop file - properly installed the icons - manually install the system specific files so it doesn't make tarball we never use.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/34775202/nightingale-1.11.0-2.fc16.src.rpm
I went ahead and posted on the forum to see if there was any interest in making it a supported package but they don't seem to interested at the moment.
Richard
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