<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 15 (filtered medium)"> <style></style> </head> <body lang="EN-AU" link="blue" vlink="purple"> <div class="WordSection1"> David,<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> 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?).<o:p></o:p> How would I find out what distributions are supported for packaging?<o:p></o:p> I’m guessing that distros like Ubuntu aren’t building GStreamer using cerbero or else this wouldn’t still be an issue.<o:p></o:p> 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">Building GStreamer from git</a>”.<o:p></o:p> I guess that I should examine Ubuntu’s <a href="https://launchpad.net/">launchpad.net</a> to understand how they are packaging GStreamer.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> From: gstreamer-devel <gstreamer-devel-bounces@lists.freedesktop.org> On Behalf Of David Ing Sent: Wednesday, 25 April 2018 11:54 PM To: Discussion of the development of and with GStreamer <gstreamer-devel@lists.freedesktop.org> Subject: Re: No specific packager available for the distro version ubuntu_16_04_xenial<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <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.<o:p></o:p> <div> <o:p> </o:p> </div> <div> You might try debugging with pycharm to patch the offending line of code.<o:p></o:p> </div> </div> <o:p> </o:p> <div> <div> On Tue, Apr 24, 2018, 1:27 AM Matthew Thyer <<a href="mailto:matthew.thyer@adelaide.edu.au">matthew.thyer@adelaide.edu.au</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p> </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,<o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> 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.<o:p></o:p> 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.<o:p></o:p> It looks like cerbero tries to fall back to some kind of default packager but then crashes and I get a python traceback.<o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> The error messages from the failure are:<o:p></o:p> WARNING: No specific packager available for the distro version ubuntu_16_04_xenial, using generic packager for distro debian<o:p></o:p> WARNING: No packager defined, using default packager "Default <<a href="mailto:default@change.me" target="_blank">default@change.me</a>>"<o:p></o:p> Traceback (most recent call last):<o:p></o:p> File "./cerbero-uninstalled", line 9, in <module><o:p></o:p> main()<o:p></o:p> File "./cerbero/main.py", line 130, in main<o:p></o:p> Main(sys.argv[1:])<o:p></o:p> File "./cerbero/main.py", line 55, in __init__<o:p></o:p> self.run_command()<o:p></o:p> File "./cerbero/main.py", line 105, in run_command<o:p></o:p> res = commands.run(command, self.config, self.args)<o:p></o:p> File "./cerbero/commands/__init__.py", line 78, in run<o:p></o:p> return _commands[command].run(config, args)<o:p></o:p> File "./cerbero/commands/package.py", line 82, in run<o:p></o:p> pkg = Packager(config, p, self.store)<o:p></o:p> File "./cerbero/packages/packager.py", line 53, in __new__<o:p></o:p> return _packagers[d][v](config, package, store)<o:p></o:p> File "./cerbero/packages/debian.py", line 448, in __new__<o:p></o:p> return DebianPackager(config, package, store)<o:p></o:p> File "./cerbero/packages/debian.py", line 187, in __init__<o:p></o:p> self.license = f.read()<o:p></o:p> File "/usr/lib/python3.5/encodings/ascii.py", line 26, in decode<o:p></o:p> return codecs.ascii_decode(input, self.errors)[0]<o:p></o:p> UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xef in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)<o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> 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.<o:p></o:p> Does anyone have a solution for this issue?<o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> Regards,<o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> ---<o:p></o:p> Matthew Thyer<o:p></o:p> (08) 8313 9283<o:p></o:p> 4.38 Ingkarni Wardli<o:p></o:p> Adelaide University<o:p></o:p> <o:p></o:p> </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><o:p></o:p> </blockquote> </div> </div> </body> </html>