A few days ago I created a 0.7.4 package for slackware, my first kdenlive package I made so far.
I also posted it for linuxpackages.net, but it still did not get reviewed and as such not available yet.

The question is two-fold:
1) Is there anyone around here that is able to host it with enough bandwidth, or knows a good place to host a package like this? (8.9M) Linuxpackages seems to only accept packages up to 5MB. In a few days I'll be on vacation for a week or two, and I'll turn off the computer at home, making the package not available.
2) Anyone around who is willing to test the package out and able to provide some (constructive) feedback. I'm willing to maintain this package, but I lack time to see if there are errors made in the build process or that the bugs I encounter are known bugs and as such should not be solved in the package itself ;-)

Today I created the MLT package as well as kdenlive 0.7.5 (I have been on vacation), the scripts are generic enough that I should be able to keep up with new versions.
If people are interested, let me know; I can provide packages for you, or you get the scripts which I attached here and make your package yourself ;-)


(best to strip the .sh part, some parts of the build script do not expect to have the .sh extension.)

Suggestions for improvement are welcome as well of course.

i got some spare bandwith on a sever thats no longer being developed... welcome to put it there, my username at gmail. email it to me and i can post it there...

Splendid! If things went OK they should be in your mail now. Thanks!

http://mobit.co.za/packages/

they sitting here at the moment - tried to set up a page but just haven't had time :)

drumar, would you like to also maintain a page here on kdenlive.org in the packages section?
just say yes, and we'll grant you documentation writer privileges

Maintainer: surely I am willing to maintain this package!

As for the error you got: I think there is a dependency with the nepomuk library, which already are in -current if I'm not mistaken. Given that I expect Slack 13 to be out really soon -I will upgrade my system to a "default" Slack 13- I think it is beyond the scope of the package to include / add a package for this library. Feel free to disagree, I may yet come around and make a package for this library as well. Obviously I was not aware of the dependency anyway.

Please keep the feedback coming, I will send it for approval to them once it is up as I do know they're picky (which is good) - only thing I somewhat disagree with them is the exact script needed to make the packages, as I prefer to have a slightly different approach, having functions in my script which do the process in several steps:
- download sources if not available
- configure
- compile
- make package
- clean up

Sometimes things go wrong, and this makes it easier for me to skip a certain step, so I don't loose too much time. But that's going into details ;-) If I manage, I will try to post a script here today that should create a package to install libnepomuk from source. The computer a script like it may reside on is turned off at the moment or I could see if I had it from where I am at the moment. Hang on please!

EDIT: - I just dived a bit deeper into libnepomuk and the library is indeed in slackware-current kdelibs package, as this query shows: http://packages.slackware.it/search.php?v=current&t=2&q=libnepomuk* I am not certain (yet) if the sources for this library can be separately downloaded and compiled, and defenitely in which hell of chained dependencies I will get if I tried that. ;-)

EDIT 2: - Dived even deeper, it seems KDE4 is a requirement for kdenlive. Since this is required, you should also get the nepomuk libraries, and thus making this separately is not logical. nr required. If -for some reason- you cannot or will not upgrade to slackware-current, then I suggest waiting till Slackware 13.0 is really out. You can expect a fresh package shortly after, as I will have to upgrade my system. Currently I am running a compile of the current git of kdenlive on a very old system (Pentium 2) that is a bare Slackware-current system; if it is succesfull, I will let you know.

here it is drumar: http://www.kdenlive.org/user-manual/downloading-and-installing-kdenlive/pre-compiled-packages/slackware-packages

go on and fill it! :)

aye sir! :-)

filled something with some info

thanks! i converted your comment in the page itself. in the future, please "edit" the page instead of adding comments ;)

Thanks! I tried, but it was locked by you ... at least, so it said...

oh, sorry... it happens sometimes, don't know why...

Thanks, keep an eye open here; I resolved a few dependencies not in the least ffmpeg, which in turn has its own dependencies. I am currently building some old versions of these dependencies to build an svn release of ffmpeg. For now also using old scripts, which I will update along with updates with newer versions of the dependency source tree.

Drumar,

Saw your post on LQ and now I can't get access to your download side. "ACCESS FORBIDDEN". Will check again later.

Bob

my bad, hadn't set read-bits; fixed now.

Make sure you get both the new MLT and Kdenlive package; especially MLT has a few different flags that made the fix in the build.