Getting MakeMKV Working with Guix
Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2022 5:20 am
Hello!
I wanted to create a package for Guix so others could use MakeMKV on Guix easily; and I've gotten really close. Just in case it's useful for anyone, I'll put the package code at the bottom of this post.
The makemkvcon executable seems to work perfectly, as far as I can tell; but the application doesn't seem to be able to recognize whether the beta is still within the key or, if a registration key is even used, it seems to not store the key in any way that it can remember and check against, in the future.
Launching the app. immediately states that it's not the latest version (which, as viewable in the screenshot, shouldn't be true as it identifies itself as version 1.16.5.
But, in any case, I figure, "O. K.; well, – if I put in the key for the beta, manually – I should get around the weird behavior as any version can be used with a registration key."
The app. seems to recognize the key and the expiry date as the first of February so I think this should suffice and hit O. K. but that just causes the app. to close; running the makemkv command from the command line and doing this again doesn't display any kind of error in the terminal so I'm not sure if this is crashing or otherwise. Reopening the app. just results in the same behavior as before in every way except that clicking Register automatically loads the key, again, so I don't have to type/paste it in, again.
Anyway, the short of this post is that if I could get some insight into how MakeMKV verifies (and marks as valid, for future use) the key, that'd be great as I'd, then, be able to get this working for others on Guix to easily use.
Guix is somewhat different from the average Linux distro is that it stores all programs it installs under unique paths of the path /gnu/store; part of what I resolve in the package definition is where programs can expect to find dependencies it may need. I'm pretty sure I've resolved all of the dependency locations as nothing generates errors of not being able to find things like Bash, anymore, and I'm pretty certain makemkvcon is working flawlessly.
I wouldn't expect MakeMKV to write whether someone's using a valid key to the root, any, and would expect it to mark such things in the user's home directory but my first thought is that, perhaps, this setup for installed programs may be causing the app. to not be able to verify registration keys, at all; store them but not be able to properly register that they're valid or something.
I wanted to create a package for Guix so others could use MakeMKV on Guix easily; and I've gotten really close. Just in case it's useful for anyone, I'll put the package code at the bottom of this post.
The makemkvcon executable seems to work perfectly, as far as I can tell; but the application doesn't seem to be able to recognize whether the beta is still within the key or, if a registration key is even used, it seems to not store the key in any way that it can remember and check against, in the future.
- Screenshot from 2022-01-14 23-03-31.png (42.77 KiB) Viewed 6218 times
But, in any case, I figure, "O. K.; well, – if I put in the key for the beta, manually – I should get around the weird behavior as any version can be used with a registration key."
- Screenshot from 2022-01-14 23-04-08.png (63.09 KiB) Viewed 6218 times
Anyway, the short of this post is that if I could get some insight into how MakeMKV verifies (and marks as valid, for future use) the key, that'd be great as I'd, then, be able to get this working for others on Guix to easily use.
Guix is somewhat different from the average Linux distro is that it stores all programs it installs under unique paths of the path /gnu/store; part of what I resolve in the package definition is where programs can expect to find dependencies it may need. I'm pretty sure I've resolved all of the dependency locations as nothing generates errors of not being able to find things like Bash, anymore, and I'm pretty certain makemkvcon is working flawlessly.
I wouldn't expect MakeMKV to write whether someone's using a valid key to the root, any, and would expect it to mark such things in the user's home directory but my first thought is that, perhaps, this setup for installed programs may be causing the app. to not be able to verify registration keys, at all; store them but not be able to properly register that they're valid or something.
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(use-modules ((guix licenses) #:prefix license:)
(guix utils)
(guix packages)
(guix download)
(guix build-system gnu)
(gnu packages bootstrap)
(gnu packages elf)
(gnu packages pkg-config)
(gnu packages compression)
(gnu packages tls)
(gnu packages xml)
(gnu packages video)
(gnu packages qt))
(define makemkvcon (package
(name "makemkvcon")
(version "1.16.5")
(source (origin
(method url-fetch)
(uri (string-append "https://www.makemkv.com/download/"
"makemkv-bin-" version ".tar.gz"))
(sha256 (base32
"1y14yxhjj0sdq0s24qr58m0ddhna2rf0q0w3ny888as4wbqiwvm0"))))
(build-system gnu-build-system)
(arguments `(#:tests? #f
#:validate-runpath? #f
#:phases (modify-phases %standard-phases
(delete 'configure)
(delete 'build)
(add-before 'install 'adjust-makefile
(lambda* (#:key outputs #:allow-other-keys)
(let ([out (assoc-ref outputs "out")])
(substitute* "Makefile"
[("PREFIX=/usr") (string-append "PREFIX=" out)]
[("install: tmp/eula_accepted bin/") "install: bin/"]))))
(delete 'strip))))
(home-page "https://www.makemkv.com/")
(synopsis "Executable for MakeMKV to handle disc operations")
(description "")
(license license:non-copyleft)))
(package
(name "makemkv")
(version "1.16.5")
(source (origin
(method url-fetch)
(uri (string-append "https://www.makemkv.com/download/"
name "-oss-" version ".tar.gz"))
(sha256 (base32
"131vdi4gyc996z77rrcqb9nfbd62j8314ai4ib1jnilmrsrk93p5"))))
(build-system gnu-build-system)
(arguments `(#:modules ((guix build gnu-build-system)
(guix build utils)
(ice-9 popen)
(ice-9 rdelim))
#:tests? #f
#:phases (modify-phases %standard-phases
(add-before 'configure 'set-ldconfig-cache
(lambda _
(substitute* "Makefile.in"
[("ldconfig") "ldconfig -C /tmp/ld.so.cache~"])
(substitute* "makemkvgui/src/api_linux.cpp"
[("\"/usr/local/bin\",") "\"/run/current-system/profile/bin\", \"~/.guix-profile/bin\","])))
(add-after 'strip 'fix-rpath
(lambda* (#:key inputs outputs #:allow-other-keys)
(let* ([out (assoc-ref outputs "out")]
[makemkvcon-bin (string-append out "/bin")]
[makemkvcon-exc (string-append
makemkvcon-bin
"/makemkvcon")])
(install-file
(string-append
(assoc-ref inputs "makemkvcon")
"/bin/makemkvcon")
makemkvcon-bin)
(invoke "chmod" "u+w" makemkvcon-exc)
(invoke "patchelf" "--set-interpreter"
(search-input-file
inputs
,(glibc-dynamic-linker)) makemkvcon-exc)
(invoke "patchelf" "--set-rpath"
(string-append out "/lib")
makemkvcon-exc)))))))
(native-inputs (list pkg-config patchelf makemkvcon))
(inputs (list zlib openssl expat ffmpeg qtbase-5))
(home-page "https://www.makemkv.com/")
(synopsis "Helper files for MakeMKV")
(description "MakeMKV allows for creating MKV files from the chapters of a
DVD.
This package provides the MakeMKV GUI, libmakemkv multiplexer library, and
libdriveio MMC drive interrogation library")
(license license:lgpl2.1))