SABnzbdplus-0.2.7 ebuild
by rullzer on Nov.13, 2007, under Gentoo, Linux, Programming things
It is 40 minutes past midnight. However I did not want to keep this from you!
About a week back I saw that in my feed reader all the messages from the SABnzbd project were empty. Which means that there was no activity for a very long time. So after browsing trought the forums I found that SABnzbd was abbandond. It made me sad. But the good thing is that I saw that a new group of people has started a succesor for SABnzbd, SABnzbdplus.
SABnzbdplus: Binary Newsgrabber written in Python, server-oriented using a web-interface. The active successor of the abandoned SABnzbd project
Now what does this mean for the SABnzbd users? Well it comes down to that their usenet download tool is supported again and actively developed. So you can expet new features. Bug fixes etc. So all good news. (for current changes see the changelog).
Now the response I got to my SABnzbd-0.2.5 ebuild (see original blog post) was quite a lot. People thanking me and sending in suggestions. Unfortunatly the ebuild never made it into gentoo portage. But times have changed. Currently Cherrypy-2.2.1-r1 is in portage. So that means this ebuild does not need any other ebuilds.
Having said that I must admit that is not entirely true. It still need yenc if you want that. However we come to that. Since well that package is quite small and only a few python script being installed. It should be no problem getting that into portage. However I do not yet feel quite ready to sumbit my new ebuild to portage since it needs some testing and some features (like the included Nova themes) are not yet available after installing the ebuild. So it will need a lot of fine tuning. However that is proces that will take some time and I could really use your help. So please if you got some spare time emerge the ebuild, try it and let me know how it works out.
I now have only tested it on amd64 but since it are all python scripts it should work on any arch that has the required deps. As stated you will need the yenc ebuild. Other than it should all work fine.
Now if you were using my pervious ebuild be sure to unmerge that first. Else you will get file collison!
And finally here the ebuild can be found.
November 13th, 2007 on 4:56 am
I unmerged the sabnzbd ebuild and merged this with all the bells and wistles (all use flags on) just to make sure everything works - I am still playing around with it but it looks to be working fine. I was able to download the latest nova template and get that working fine as well (There is now an option in the config to let you set the webdir so I just changed that instead of having to shuffle around the template folders… awsome!)
Changing the user:group names for the daemon to sabnzbdplus:sabnzbdplus was kind of an annoyance but that isn’t to hard to deal with… I probably shouldn’t be using the group for folder rights anyways…
All in all, I think you did a great job, thanks!
November 13th, 2007 on 1:08 pm
[...] I had some contact with the SABnzbdplus maintianers today and it tuns out that the program is still called SABnzbd. So I switched the name of the ebuild and all reverences to SABnzbdplus are removed. This does mean users will have to chown their custom download dirs again. Sorry for that Chris. [...]