No specific packager available for the distro version ubuntu_16_04_xenial

[David Ing]

Cerbero was recently converted to python 3 from python 2.  Python 3 uses a
different string encoding standard (utf8 I think) and errors like this
often appear when something was missed during the conversion process.

You might try debugging with pycharm to patch the offending line of code.

On Tue, Apr 24, 2018, 1:27 AM Matthew Thyer <matthew.thyer at adelaide.edu.au>
wrote:

> Greetings gstreamer-devel list,
>
>
>
> I’m wishing to build and package GStreamer v1.14 (or later) for the ARM32
> hard-float architecture (for Raspberry Pi 2, 3, 3B+). I mean the GNU
> Triplet: arm-linux-gnueabihf.
>
> As you may have seen from my last two emails (“Failure to cross compile
> GStreamer v1.14 with config/cross-lin-arm.cbc” & “How to cross compile
> GStreamer for Raspberry Pi 2, 3, 3B+ (arch=armhf)?”) I’m not currently able
> to cross compile for this outcome so I have instead setup docker on my
> Raspberry Pi 3 and run a native build. This completes normally but then
> fails to package the results of the build.
>
> It looks like cerbero tries to fall back to some kind of default packager
> but then crashes and I get a python traceback.
>
>
>
> The error messages from the failure are:
>
> WARNING: No specific packager available for the distro version
> ubuntu_16_04_xenial, using generic packager for distro debian
>
> WARNING: No packager defined, using default packager "Default <
> default at change.me>"
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>
>  File "./cerbero-uninstalled", line 9, in <module>
>
>    main()
>
>  File "./cerbero/main.py", line 130, in main
>
>    Main(sys.argv[1:])
>
>  File "./cerbero/main.py", line 55, in __init__
>
>    self.run_command()
>
>  File "./cerbero/main.py", line 105, in run_command
>
>    res = commands.run(command, self.config, self.args)
>
>  File "./cerbero/commands/__init__.py", line 78, in run
>
>    return _commands[command].run(config, args)
>
>  File "./cerbero/commands/package.py", line 82, in run
>
>    pkg = Packager(config, p, self.store)
>
>  File "./cerbero/packages/packager.py", line 53, in __new__
>
>    return _packagers[d][v](config, package, store)
>
>  File "./cerbero/packages/debian.py", line 448, in __new__
>
>    return DebianPackager(config, package, store)
>
>  File "./cerbero/packages/debian.py", line 187, in __init__
>
>    self.license = f.read()
>
>  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/encodings/ascii.py", line 26, in decode
>
>    return codecs.ascii_decode(input, self.errors)[0]
>
> UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xef in position 0:
> ordinal not in range(128)
>
>
>
> I’ve confirmed that I get the same error when running a native build in a
> docker container on an x86_64 VM so this problem is not specific to the ARM
> architecture.
>
> Does anyone have a solution for this issue?
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
> ---
>
> Matthew Thyer
>
> (08) 8313 9283
>
> 4.38 Ingkarni Wardli
>
> Adelaide University
>
>
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