<div dir="ltr">I can tell you that I built the deb packages for Gstreamer 1.12.4 on Lubuntu 16.04. This version of cerbero (1.12.4) was prior to the migration from Python 2 to Python 3. I did this because the Xenial version of Gstreamer is 1.8.something; and the Xenial repositories don't offer other versions (nobody is really distributing pre-built deb packages of all the different versions).<div> </div><div>You can read about my deb packaging experience here: <a href="https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/gstreamer-devel/2018-April/067562.html">https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/gstreamer-devel/2018-April/067562.html</a></div><div> </div><div>But having said that, errors like this are almost always about Python 2 vs. 3 compatability issues.</div><div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div> <p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:36pt;margin-bottom:0.0001pt"> File "/usr/lib/python3.5/encodings/ascii.py", line 26, in decode<p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:36pt;margin-bottom:0.0001pt"> return codecs.ascii_decode(input, self.errors)[0]<p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin-right:0cm;margin-left:36pt;margin-bottom:0.0001pt">UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xef in position 0: ordinal not in range(128) </div></blockquote></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"> <div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 8:06 PM, Matthew Thyer <<a href="mailto:matthew.thyer@adelaide.edu.au" target="_blank">matthew.thyer@adelaide.edu.au</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> <div lang="EN-AU" link="blue" vlink="purple"> <div class="m_-8953568151499761523WordSection1"> David, As the traceback occurs after cerbero declares that “ubuntu_16_04_xenial” has no specific packager, I’m wondering whether I still have a chance to produce packages by using some other Linux distribution (e.g. would Debian 9.4 x86_64 work?). How would I find out what distributions are supported for packaging? I’m guessing that distros like Ubuntu aren’t building GStreamer using cerbero or else this wouldn’t still be an issue. For the Linux case it seems that I can revert to building from git as per the FAQ answer: “<a href="https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/documentation/frequently-asked-questions/git.html" target="_blank">Building GStreamer from git</a>”. I guess that I should examine Ubuntu’s <a href="https://launchpad.net/" target="_blank">launchpad.net</a> to understand how they are packaging GStreamer. From: gstreamer-devel <<a href="mailto:gstreamer-devel-bounces@lists.freedesktop.org" target="_blank">gstreamer-devel-bounces@lists.freedesktop.org</a>> On Behalf Of David Ing Sent: Wednesday, 25 April 2018 11:54 PM To: Discussion of the development of and with GStreamer <<a href="mailto:gstreamer-devel@lists.freedesktop.org" target="_blank">gstreamer-devel@lists.freedesktop.org</a>> Subject: Re: No specific packager available for the distro version ubuntu_16_04_xenial<div><div class="h5"> <div> 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. <div> </div> <div> You might try debugging with pycharm to patch the offending line of code. </div> </div> <div> <div> On Tue, Apr 24, 2018, 1:27 AM Matthew Thyer <<a href="mailto:matthew.thyer@adelaide.edu.au" target="_blank">matthew.thyer@adelaide.edu.au</a>> wrote: </div> <blockquote style="border:none;border-left:solid #cccccc 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0cm"> <div> <div> 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 <<a href="mailto:default@change.me" target="_blank">default@change.me</a>>" 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 </div> </div> _______________________________________________ gstreamer-devel mailing list <a href="mailto:gstreamer-devel@lists.freedesktop.org" target="_blank">gstreamer-devel@lists.freedesktop.org</a> <a href="https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/gstreamer-devel" target="_blank">https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/gstreamer-devel</a> </blockquote> </div> </div></div></div> </div> _______________________________________________ gstreamer-devel mailing list <a href="mailto:gstreamer-devel@lists.freedesktop.org">gstreamer-devel@lists.freedesktop.org</a> <a href="https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/gstreamer-devel" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/gstreamer-devel</a> </blockquote></div> </div>