Centuries ago, Nostradamus predicted that Greg Troxel would write on Sun Jan 7 08:10:48 2024:
> > "Jay F. Shachter" <j...@m5.chicago.il.us> writes: > >> >> How does one obtain libdvdcss on NetBSD? If I am not mistaken, the >> procedure involves: >> >> cd /usr/pkgsrc/multimedia/libdvdcss >> make install clean >> >> But (also if I am not mistaken), one must first make some sort of >> change in /etc/mk.conf before issuing the above commands. What is the >> procedure? As always, thank you in advance for any and all replies. >> > > I'm not going to give you advice about this package. > > General advice for your next similar situation: > > 1) Instead of asking an open-ended question (that makes it seem like you > have not tried to figure things out), try to do what you want to do, see > what happens, try to resolve problems, and then if/when you are stuck, > write and in addition to mentioning your goal, say what you did and what > happened. When you do, include the key lines from output; don't > summarize them. > > 2) When wondering about a package, read the files in the package > directory. I realize that if you haven't learned BSD make and pgksrc > development the code is hard to read, but often it is possible to > understand something anyway. Sometimes people working on packages even > include comments. This might be one of those times, and it might not! > Indeed, I did read the files in the package directory, and, in particular, I read /usr/pkgsrc/multimedia/libdvdcss/Makefile. The Makefile comments state that the first rule of the dvdcss club is that you don't talk about the dvdcss club. They also state, as I indicated in the message to which you replied, that one must add a line to /etc/mk.conf defining LIBDVD_MASTER_SITES, but, without knowing how to define it, that information is not helpful. Nor have I found the information by consulting search engines. In particular, https://wiki.netbsd.org/tutorials/how_to_read_css_protected_dvds -- which a search engine had shown me, and which I had already read, before I sent my initial message -- does not tell me what value to give to LIBDVD_MASTER_SITES, only that I must define it. As of this writing, I have still not found, anywhere, a proper value for that variable. At the bottom of /usr/pkgsrc/multimedia/libdvdcss/Makefile one sees that, as an alternative to the above, one can manually download ${DISTNAME}${EXTRACT_SUFX} into ${DISTDIR} (I thought that in makefiles, variable names are to be surrounded by parentheses, not curly braces; but I digress). And at the very top of the file, DISTNAME is defined to be libdvdcss-1.4.3 and EXTRACT_SUFX is defined to be .tar.bz2, so with a little work I can put those together and determine that I am to download libdvdcss-1.4.tar.bz2 into an unknown directory -- because the makefile does not define DISTDIR. So one still does not know what to do. What worked, in the end, was not reading the makefile, because the makefile did not tell me all that I needed to know. What worked was throwing caution to the winds and running the "make" command before knowing what I needed to know. When I did that, I was magically shown the value of DISTDIR. At that point, it was a simple matter to find out at https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/multimedia/libdvdcss.html from where I can download libdvdcss-1.4.tar.bz2 and from there a "make install clean" got me what I wanted (or, more precisely, it got me to the next point at which I wanted something else). So in the end, your advice was more helpful that an answer to my question would have been, because it caused me to proceed without an answer to my question, and in that way to become more self-sufficient and not to rely on getting answers to my questions. It is as the proverb says, and it is a wise proverb, "If you build a man a fire, he is warm for a day; but if you set a man on fire, he is warm for the rest of his life". No wait, I don't think that's how it goes. But it's something like that. Jay F. Shachter 6424 North Whipple Street Chicago IL 60645-4111 (1-773)7613784 landline (1-410)9964737 GoogleVoice j...@m5.chicago.il.us http://m5.chicago.il.us "Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur"
