troubles with gstreamer installation from Cerbero!

[Matthew Waters]

Linux distributions don't use cerbero for packaging GStreamer but have
their own scripts.  If you want to package GStreamer for a Linux distro,
use their scripts instead.

On 8/10/19 3:16 am, David Ing wrote:
> There is currently a bug related to deb packaging with cerbero.
>
>   * https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/cerbero/issues/56 
>   * For more
>     context:  http://gstreamer-devel.966125.n4.nabble.com/No-specific-packager-available-for-the-distro-version-ubuntu-16-04-xenial-td4686848.html#a4687008  
>
> Traditionally, the maintainers of a given distro have (somehow)
> created *.deb packages where the version of gstreamer is fixed for the
> version of the target distro (such that transitive dependencies are
> versioned in a way which is appropriate for the target distro).  I am
> not sure if they use cerbero or something else for that.  (Perhaps
> they have patched cerbero to meet their needs but they have not merged
> the patch into master.)
>
> On Mon, Oct 7, 2019 at 8:23 AM givip <pataridzegivi at gmail.com
> <mailto:pataridzegivi at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     I completely can't understand why description of creating package
>     process is
>     such unclear.
>     May be my goal is different from others.
>
>     I want to build fresh version of GStreamer (let's say 1.16) and
>     distribute
>     as a *.deb file(s), as a complete set of libraries, ready to use while
>     developing applications.
>
>     Why I can't install GStreamer on the new machine like this: *$ dpkg -i
>     gstreamer-1.0_1.16.0*?
>
>     Also, I read all docs about creating package with cerbero and have
>     couple
>     notes:
>     - By default cerbero create multiple deb files with packed inside
>     data files
>     with path of current 'build' folder, for example
>     'home/user/cerbero/build...', not /opt/gstreamer, so the solutions
>     is to set
>     'LD_LIBRARY_PATH' and 'PATH'. But Where is the guide how to do that
>     correctly? I don't think, that setting PATH is correct way.
>     https://stackoverflow.com/a/53730898
>     <https://stackoverflow.com/a/53730898> 
>     - For Ubuntu cerbero cant figure out the type of system during
>     bootstrap and
>     require additionally 'apt-get install flex bison'
>     - For Nvidia Hardware support many issues during build process, will
>     describe later.
>
>     So the main question, related to this topic is "How create deb files,
>     installable on other ubuntu machine?
>
>
>
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