Missing files in app

[Alexander Larsson]

On fre, 2016-12-16 at 10:29 +0100, Ruben Grimm wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> I'm currently experimenting with flatpak packaging and for this I
> was 
> trying to build a VLC package based on a QT runtime, I built myself 
> (which of course is built upon the freedesktop runtime). I put the 
> gst-ugly-libs into this package.

Why did you feel the need to create a runtime for Qt? The idea is to
bundle it with your app.

> Now when I install the package, I can see the gst-ugly libs in 
> $HOME/.local/share/flatpak/app/org.videloan.Vlc/current/active/files/
> lib/gstreamer-1.0,
> but when I sh into the app (flatpak run --command=sh
> org.videolan.Vlc). 
> The gstreamer-1.0 folder only contains the gst-good and gst-base
> libs, 
> which are provided by freedesktop and VLC can't play mp4 files.

Where did you look. The files you list above are in the app, so they
should end up in /app/lib/gstreamer-1.0, whereas the gstreamer stuff
from the runtime should be in /usr/lib/gstreamer-1.0.

However, the freedesktop runtime sets GST_PLUGIN_SYSTEM_PATH so that
the plugins in the app should be found in /app/lib. Did you try running
gst-inspect to see if it finds the plugin?

> Do you have an idea whats going on here? Is there a problem merging
> the 
> folders? Am I doing something wrong?

Flatpak never merges any folder, the app and the runtime are separate
directories.

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