Pipelight

Installation under Gentoo with portage overlay

Asked by Armin Pech

Hi,

i just want note that there is a portage overlay out for easy installation under Gentoo Linux systems.
The portage overlay is maintained at https://github.com/ryao/pipelight-overlay

The installation is very simple, see https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ryao/pipelight-overlay/master/README:
# Login as root
# Install required tools for overlay integration
emerge app-portage/layman dev-vcs/git
# Activate layman overlays in portage configuration
echo 'source /var/lib/layman/make.conf' >> /etc/portage/make.conf
# Download portage overlay for pipelight
layman -o https://raw.github.com/ryao/pipelight-overlay/master/overlay.xml -f -a pipelight
# Emerge pipelight
mkdir -p /etc/portage/package.accept_keywords
echo 'app-emulation/wine-compholio ~*' >> /etc/portage/package.accept_keywords/pipelight-overlay
echo '=www-plugins/pipelight-9999 **' >> /etc/portage/package.accept_keywords/pipelight-overlay
emerge =www-plugins/pipelight-9999

# Activate plugin as normal user:
pipelight-plugin --enable silverlight5.1

I tested the installation and activation of Silverlight 5.1 successfully - see system configuration below.

The Silverlight plugin works fine for me. The movie service watchever.de and http://bubblemark.com/sl3/TestPage.html work great.

I want to request integration of these installation instructions into http://fds-team.de/cms/pipelight-installation.html

Thank you for your great project :)

Cheers,
Armin

==== Gentoo system configuration

Portage 2.2.8-r1 (default/linux/amd64/13.0, gcc-4.7.3, glibc-2.17, 3.12.0-gentoo x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-3.12.0-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i5-2520M_CPU_@_2.50GHz-with-gentoo-2.2
KiB Mem: 8120500 total, 3357720 free
KiB Swap: 8388604 total, 8388604 free
Timestamp of tree: Sun, 23 Mar 2014 10:15:01 +0000
ld GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.23.2
app-shells/bash: 4.2_p45
dev-java/java-config: 2.2.0
dev-lang/python: 2.6.8-r3, 2.7.5-r3, 3.2.5-r3, 3.3.3
dev-util/cmake: 2.8.11.2
dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.28
sys-apps/baselayout: 2.2
sys-apps/openrc: 0.12.4
sys-apps/sandbox: 2.6-r1
sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.69
sys-devel/automake: 1.10.3, 1.11.6, 1.12.6, 1.13.4
sys-devel/binutils: 2.23.2
sys-devel/gcc: 4.7.3-r1
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.7.3
sys-devel/libtool: 2.4.2
sys-devel/make: 3.82-r4
sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.9 (virtual/os-headers)
sys-libs/glibc: 2.17
Repositories: gentoo pipelight cubietruck
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5.5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5.5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5.5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles merge-sync news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync"
FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://de-mirror.org/gentoo/ http://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/gentoo/"
LANG="de_DE.UTF-8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed"
MAKEOPTS="-j5"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --omit-dir-times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/var/lib/layman/pipelight /root/OVERLAY"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.de.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X acl acpi alsa amd64 apm berkdb bzip2 clamav cli cracklib crypt cxx doc dri fortran gdbm gimp iaac iconv ipv6 latex lm_sensors lua mmx modules ncurses nls nptl nsplugin openmp pam pcre readline session sse sse2 ssl tcpd thinkpad udev unicode usb wifi zlib" ABI_X86="64" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" APACHE2_MODULES="authn_core authz_core socache_shmcb unixd actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump author" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ublox ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" LINGUAS="de en ar" OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION="libreoffice" PHP_TARGETS="php5-5" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_6 python2_7 python3_2" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby19 ruby20" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="intel fbdev" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account"
USE_PYTHON="2.6 2.7 3.2"
Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

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Richard Yao (ryao-3) said : 		#1

That is my overlay. I created it as a temporary place for WIP development of pipelight packaging last year until pipelight was ready for inclusion into the main tree. To make a long story short, the blocker was a structure misalignment bug in wineg++. Binaries built with wineg++ to satisfy Gentoo's QA standards crashed because of it. None of us realized that was the problem until yesterday when some awesome debugging by the main pipelight developers caught it.

Now I am in the process of preparing pipelight for inclusion into the main tree. I am very busy this week, so I will be doing the prepartion work over the next week rather than in one day. The remaining work is:

Making a keyworded snapshot (9999 ebuilds are meant for developers hacking on the code)
Removing obsolete helper files from the ebuild / modernizing src_install()
Gentoo Prefix support, which should be fixing a path in src_src_prepare currently absent from the sed expression
An ebuild for the pipelight sandbox
Post installation messages with tips and suggestions about xattrs, browser user agents and the sandbox
Updating wine-compholio and/or getting the patches merged into Gentoo's wine package
Reviewing how users will receive updates to pipelight or plugins it installs to protect users from maintainer error

Also, for bonus points, I will try to evaluate the usability on Gentoo FreeBSD, but that will not delay inclusion into the main tree.

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