Gentoo Ebuild support for ytmdl is outdated.

[samgarmany]

This isn't really a bug so I didn't submit a bug report but it should be brought to your attention that the Ebuild for gentoo is completely shot, making installation impossible, I'm not sure exactly who maintains it but it will not work until the ebuild is re-written

[deepjyoti30]

@xgqt had added support for Gentoo. I can see that the support was added way back and it seems like it has not been updated in a while.

@xgqt if you can, please consider letting us know if you'd be able to update it? We might have to drop support for Gentoo builds unless some other maintainer wants to pick it up?

[deepjyoti30]

I am adding the help-wanted flag in case any gentoo maintainer would like to pick the native repo and update it!

[xgqt]

Hi!

Yes, I stopped maintaining YTMDL in src_prepare-overlay long time ago, BUT I am willing to come back to it now.
Nevertheless it would be good to have some help from other Gentoo devs and proxy maintainers who are interested in YTMDL as it requires a lot of dependencies that are not yet packaged in the official Gentoo repository.

[xgqt]

The ytmdl branch holds current efforts to add ytmdl to ::gentoo

https://gitlab.com/xgqt/gentoo-private/-/commits/ytmdl

(do not use this repository, this is just to show what is going on, I have to solve a problem with GURU maintainers which holds spotipy and ffmpeg-python, GURU is a project guided by Gentoo, and it cannot have duplicate pkgs)

[samgarmany]

I'm sorry, I don't have the know-how for maintaining an ebuild now, I could learn it potentially.

It's up to you and @xgqt but I think the help wanted tag and mentioning it's deprecated is the best decision right now

[deepjyoti30]

@xgqt Thanks for the update. Will keep this issue open with the help-wanted flag. Meanwhile, if you are successful in fixing the issues and updating ytmdl let me know!

[xgqt]

Porting compete: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=06c15415081276f34ed569c4735e021222b4f698

I believe this bug can be closed now.

[deepjyoti30]

@xgqt Thanks for the quick fix.

Btw, did you update the dependency of youtube-dl to ytdl?

In the latest release, the youtube-dl dependency was changed. Check here.

Will close the issue once you confirm that.

@Ap0them You can test the latest version from gentoo and report back here in case there are issues. I will close the issue shortly.

[xgqt]

Btw, did you update the dependency of youtube-dl to ytdl?

Yes, if you mean yt-dlp, in Gentoo this is called net-misc/yt-dlp.

@Ap0them You can test the latest version from gentoo and report back here in case there are issues. I will close the issue shortly.

Any bugs supposed to be with Gentoo should be then reported on the Gentoo bugzilla: https://bugs.gentoo.org/

[deepjyoti30]

Cool @xgqt thanks for confirming. Closing the issue as its fixed.