Would need help on setting up a new "Blender" (3D modelling) PPA

[Jan Groenewald]

Hi

Do you have any other PPAs or sources on your box where debuild completes?
Perhaps Irie's PPA?

regards,
Jan


On 28 December 2014 at 14:57, Thomas Schiex <empnessty at gmail.com> wrote:

>  Hello Jan
>
> Thanks for the advice.
>
> All the packages (the one I'm trying to build - openshadinglanguage- and
> the one that cannot be installed but has already been successfully built -
> libopenexr21) are in one single PPA. I already have some packages in this
> PPA (eg. libopenexr) that depend on other packages provided by the same PPA
> and they compiled well on Launchpad. So, it should not be the source of my
> problem.
>
> Anyway, I'm open to all ideas and I did try to add the PPA to its own
> dependencies but Launchpad says ' An archive should not depend on itself.'
>
> Any other idea ?
> Thomas
>
>  Hi
>
> Try add the setup PPA as a dependency at 'edit ppa dependencies' entry at
> the top right on your PPA page.
>
> Regards,
> Jan
>
>
>
> On 28 December 2014 at 13:46, Thomas Schiex <empnessty at gmail.com> <empnessty at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>   Dear MOTUs,
>
> I'm trying to set up a new PPA for the fantastic 3D modeller tool blender.
> Until mid 2014, IRIE Shinsuke maintained a Blender PPA for Ubuntu (https://launchpad.net/~irie/+archive/ubuntu/blender). I don't know what
> happended to IRIE Shinsuke but the PPA has not chnaged since, despite the
> fact that new Blender versions appeared (moved from 2.71 to 2.73 with
> several new features).
>
> I have been trying to set up a mirror of IRIE's PPA and then update
> Blender sources to move forward. But because of the intricacy of Blender
> compilation (it depends on a very large number of external software and
> libraries which must have precise versions), I have been unable to achieve
> this. I have been through several issues but I now have an error that I
> simply don't understand.
>
> The Build log is here:
>
> https://launchpadlibrarian.net/193587948/buildlog_ubuntu-utopic-amd64.openshadinglanguage_1.5.0-0thomas~utopic0_FAILEDTOBUILD.txt.gz
>
> It says that
>
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>  libopenexr-dev : Depends: libopenexr21 (= 2.1.0-thomas~utopic0) but it is
> not going to be installed
> E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
> apt-get failed.
>
> The packages libopenexr-dev and libopenser21 are provided by the setup
> PPA. I have all those packages installed on my computer with no issue at
> all, and with a successful debuild. The dependencies of libopenexr21 (=
> 2.1.0-thomas~utopic0) are very limited so I cannot see what prevents
> installation:
>
> Depends on: libc6 (>=2.14), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1), libilmbase11 (>= 2.1.0),
>             libstdc++ (>=4.9), zlib1g (>=1:1.1.4)
> PreDepends: multiarch-support
> Replaces: libopenexr (< 2.1.0-thomas~utopic0)
> Breaks: libopenexr21 (!=2.1.0-thomas~utopic0)
>
> I have spent quite a time but I fail to understand what is the issue. I
> thought a fresh eye (and brain) could help. The whole PPA is accessible
> here:
> https://launchpad.net/~thomas-schiex/+archive/ubuntu/blender
>
> Thomas
>
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